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A friend and I launched out of Berkeley Marina and went out to do some halibut fishing. What a beautiful day! weather and condition wise one of the best I've seen.
Tried out my new driftsock to try lowering my trolling speed to acceptable levels. I deployed the sock with a ski tow yoke attached to both of the aft eyebolts with a center roller. It definately slowed me down but 2 main problems surfaced that may be remedied by further modifications.

1 The sock kept twisting up, even though it says it won't, to the extent that it had the roller on the tow yoke twisted up about a foot at one point. I think a stainless swivel at the harness end might fix this.

2 Very difficult to maintain an acceptable, constant speed in light wind and tide conditions. At some points the GPS was reading 0mph. I think I will add a water speed sensor to the lowrance unit to enhance the accuracy of actual trolling speed.

Found a glory hole near the end of the day. It was about 200yards wide and so full of large fish and baitballs that we kept staring at the screen sayng, "look at that, did you see that, OMG look there's more!" Really irritating to go home empty handed even after at least a dozen passes in the hole.
That's where I'm heading first thing next time and I'm coming home with fish if I have to use hand grenades!