Fished for a few hours this morning until the winds picked up and started blowing a 3' chop out there.
Some of the reports were showing mackerel being caught in the deep whole in the harbor.
After getting a little bait I headed over that way, but saw about 10 boats fishing way outside of the deep hole.
I trolled deep diving plug over that way and watch for a while but did not see any hookups.
Headed back towards the deep hole and at about 19 feet I saw a few birds diving, at that point the chop was about 2' so I did not see any bait on the water.
As soon as I got close my trolling line went off.
I shut the motor down, grabbed the rod and I see something come to the surface and then I lost it.
I don't know what it was, but it was pretty big. I was trolling about 200 yards behind the boat so I could not see it very well.
Seeing more birds at about 20' of water I started casting my spoon into the bait I could see on the meter and caught a keeper size mackerel.
At that point the wind was blowing hard, 3' chop and I has having a hard time standing up.
Even though there were fish there, I was not having much fun and came back in.
One good thing, my boat had a very nice dry ride, even at 30 mph through the stuff.
I would have been soaked in my skiff even at 10 mph.
