7/22/14

A long, slow, tranquil day of easy passage chewing up nautical miles southbound. An interesting set of conditions has
developed, not a good kind of interesting for one seeking game fish, but an explanation for why the main volume of
offshore gamesters has settled to the north. We covered a lot of miles from sun up through sun down and did not see
anything favorable in the way of water temperature or color along the way.

Not that the conditions encountered suggest anything more than it was terrible today - change out here is as regular, as
common, as the sun rising and falling daily, it just settled the present question of where to hang our hat for the next
round of fishing; obviously not here.

Among the beautiful advantages of long range fishing are time and mobility; an awful lot of successful fishing outcomes
are accredited to these tenets. We put them to good use when necessary. This is one of those times. Better conditions
are somewhere beyond today's pastures. It's just a matter of where, or if, we will find them.

Thankfully one lone yellowtail prevented the black and white stripe rodent from tainting today's effort with malodorous
charm. All in good humor; a bounty of pristine RSW product already in the hatch made light of the paltry fishing
results. Photo today is again a draw from our first successful two southeast of San Clemente island. Greg Emoto, no
stranger to offshore bluefin success, is no less impressed with this beauty because of it. In fact those who have been
there before have perhaps an even keener appreciation for just how special these opportunities are; certainly for how
delicious these prime specimens, pithed, bled, dressed out (gilled and gutted), and held in 31 degree refrigerated
seawater will be.

Tim Ekstrom

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