Women Who Stare At Goats!!!

Hey All!!!! Had the pleasure of being Chartermaster for the April Gold Coast Lady Anglers trip... I selected the Sea Biscuit because we fish the Sea Biscuit quite often personally, but we have never been on it as the GCLA group and I wanted them to try a new boat. (Pics with the Get Bent/Avet logo are for a contest)

We had heard the weather may be a bit bumpy on the way out...15-25 with gusts to 30, but Saturday was supposed to be 10-15 and beautiful! So I took my usual precautionary Scopace and we jammed to the boat.

The landing was hopping!!!! All boats running, Mirage, Coral Sea, Ranger 85, and of course the Sea Biscuit. I always get a kick out of all the guys reactions as 20+ women hit the dock and load a boat....

We got on the boat and grabbed bunks, etc.... We hit the bait receiver and I watched my son hard at work on the Ranger loading bait! He makes momma proud!!

Bobby brought his Lab, Daisy on the boat and the ladies loved her!!!

We hung out on deck and had a few laughs....especially when we discoved you could see who was in the heads...

Smile......You're on candid camera!!! That made for an hour of comedy...

I laughed so hard I cried.

HANDERPANTS!!!!!



Anyhow...Weather forecast could not have been more INCORRECT! When I went down to my bunk you could not even tell we were out of the harbor...
Glassy ride and near perfect conditions for fishing once we got there.

As soon as the sun showed itself the Goats were on thick!!!! I have never seen so may consecutive, large sheephead caught at once....The cries for the gaff could be heard for miles as the ladies roped the goats, many getting their firsts...One gal, yes, actually teared up she was so thrilled!

It just kept going...Mary rolls out of bed and her first two casts are back to back big boys.....





I was running around with the camera and finally put a line in to discover that there are actually some rockfish that live in GoatLand!



As the grey light faded the sheephead bite slowed down, if you could call it that, and giant Whitefish moved in....It is such a blast when the whitefish are large enough to pull serious drag, they don't call them poor man yellows for nothing.

Fred continues to kill goats and catches this beast...



And then this one!



So with near limits of quality whitefish and sheephead by 10am, we decided to head to deeper water and target reds and lings. Bobby puts us on a stone that produced for nearly an hour....

Everyone is catching fish...lots of fish. Fred actually requires a second sac as no more will fit in his first one....



Spirits were high and laughs were numerous, especially when a whitefish would hit the deck and Daisy would rush to the rescue, barking and swatting away at the mysterious creature flopping around the deck.

We get close to limits on the rockfish around 1pm and decide to do one more drift and head for the barn.... We all got together on the stern for a group shot and then weighed in for JP....Fred has the fattest goat, but only women count in the JP on our trips so Mary takes it with one of her numerous goats.

Final count... 73 sheephead, 110 whitefish, 210 rockfish, 2 ling cod....

Pretty EPIC fishing, comfy boat, awesome crew...Big thanks to Bobby, Matt, Sean, Mike, Ted, and Jonathan.

GCLA ROCKS!!!!!