Bad luck blackmouth

Took a couple of friends out back to Shilshole. We start trolling almost 8. First pass towards West Point, one of the downriggers snagged on something at the 160' line. The downrigger would pull it up to around 100' before it stops. My buddy and I put the gloves on and start pulling by hand. 1/2 way up, we see a pot bouy float up. We manage to retrieve a really old pot with a half decayed ling cod in it. With the gear saved, we put the gear back down and start trolling again.

However, a few minutes later that downrigger cable breaks, we must have had kinks pulling up by hand. I don't trust that cable so didn't crimp terminal gear on. We fish for another hour stacking 2 rods on my other downrigger. It turns out to be a huge pain as we catch many shakers and tangles, so we give up after a hour.

To continue the bad luck, we go back to Browns bay to pull pots that I had left there after Sunday's success. I had huge hopes, but we ended up with just 2 dungies, and about 15 huge starfish.

Note to everyone, don't leave pots there overnight. The starfish gets in, and all the crab leaves.

Overall, a bad day after a string of good ones :(