Golden Tilefish

We went bottom fishing yesterday. We caught 19 golden tilefish plus a nice catch of sea bass and blueline tilefish. Caught and released 3 dusky sharks. Did not catch the two sharks we wanted. Steve Martin was trying to drop his bait to the bottom when it came skying back out of the water, right next to the boat, in the jaws of a mako. That fight did not last long. Later, we had another nice mako at the transom eating fish scraps we were throwing him while we scrambled to get something together to catch it. I just dropped a diamond jig in front of it and it ate that too. Had him on for a good bit but the hook pulled. A lot of life out there. The tinker mackerel are there and we caught a number of them.