Winter fishing (if you can call it winter) usually means rougher seas. We went out once on a charter in terrible weather. Windy and raining the whole trip. The graphite spinning rods were humming from all the static electricity in the air. The boat was tossing and turning and everyone else except me and one of my managers from Nashville who had never seen the ocean before stayed in the cabin. We had rain coats on and I was determined to get him a nice fish. A smoker King hit his pilchard and the line was buzzing. Soon everyone else was fishing disregarding the elements. King fish seem to like the rough seas if you can get a bait in front of them and we caught several nice ones and even a baby sailfish about 3 feet long. the weather cleared up and it turned out to be a fun trip.
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