The first kelp bed we hit yielded some really nice Dodos! John was the first angler to pull one up.

Here's Joel with a beauty. This fish went crazy once it was hooked! It spent most of its fight leaping out of the water in hopes of ripping Joel's rod out of his hands. Needless to say, Joel won the battle!

Here' Mike with a nice Dodo.

Even I managed to catch a few of these nice fish!

John landed this nice Dodo on the second stop.

Does Mike look familiar? That's because he works on the Velocity out of Stagnaro's Fishing in Santa Cruz, CA. Great job Mikey!

After charging up after lunch, Zippy landed his first Dodo ever. Way to go buddy! Mike Margrave was reminding his pal Zippy to breathe as he chased his fish around the deck. Notice AJ with the Kung-Fu grip! This fish wasn't gonna get away.

First Dorado of the day. Dale ended up with limits of Dorado. Good day for him.

His first Dorado of the day. He's got biggest Dorado on this trip.

Another Dorado on the boat. He's Happy.

Cris's first Dorado.

Capatin Cavanaugh pulled the Pacific Queen slowly up to the paddy and you could see there were some swimmers breezing around this paddy. Edgar worked hard to get the charter, raffle and everything together so we thought we would thank him by giving him the initial cast on the first paddy of the day. Yeah right. Once the Captain gave the all clear we all threw some lively sardines at the nice paddy and hoped for a hookup. The Captain did a good job of explaining the importance of not throwing baits on the paddy before the boat was fully stopped and in position. Anyone throwing early would be sent to the penalty box and be forced to watch the action for 5 minutes with a live sardine in their nose. I'm still picking a few scales out of my right nostril but everyone did a great job of waiting till the all clear signal before throwing out. Edgar showed us all how its done when he hooked and landed the first nice dorado of the day anyway. Chris Switzer was there with the gaff on Edgars' nice dorado

Paul grabbed the liveliest sardine out of the bait tank that he could find and threw it out next to the paddy. This big dorado gobbled it up in a second and a soon Paul was onto his first nice fish of the day.

Big dorado were jumping all over the place so you really had to stay in front on them and pull to get them to the boat

Ed knew just what to do when this big dorado ate his sardine.

Wayne kept saying that he was hooked up into a nice one but none of his friends beleived him. They yelled "tighten up that drag", "pull on that little thing" and "Wayne, you got that thing up yet" as he leaned back and watched the line peeling off of his reel. Wayne knew what he was doing, the drag was tight. Don't mess with it. He knew his frieds were just jealous that he was hooked up and about to meet up with a nice pretty little dodo while they stood at the rail telling woulda', coulda', shoulda', stories.

Wayne had to use every trick in his bag to get this pretty girl to the boat because this one was playing hard to get.

I could barely believe it either but Wayne sweet talked this nice female dorado into joining him on the boat for a little bit of who knows what.

It took awhile and there was alot of fighting back and forth but Wayne and his new friend finally met. You know I think this relationship is really gonna work out for Wayne and DoDo, they seem perfect for each other, both colorful charectors. We had Justin stick the gaff in her just in case she changed her mind once she got on the boat and met Wayne. We didn't wanna be listening to any sob stories for the rest of the trip.

Maybe we should give these two a little time together to work this out. Wayne couldn't keep his hands off of this nice one, but she was still a little upset about the gaff in the side and didn't wanna play no more. I can tell when a relationship is gonna get ugly and I'm telling you now. Wayne get out of this one while you still got all you're fingers. I've seen this type before. This ones trouble. Theres' plenty more fish in this sea !!