Bobbyk
12-13-2007, 10:31 AM
Well where to start...Tuesday night we went squidding and got about six scoops from the Lady Francis(thank you) and jetted over to another spot and found squid so thick you could probably sleep on it. Loaded up on some jumbo squid and headed in with full tanks and more squid then we knew what to do with.
Wednesday night we get a late start waiting for a few passangers who were running a tad late, no worries happens every once in a while. Out of the harbor by 6:30 and make the long run out to the deep hole. Roughly three hours later we start looking for some fish, and they were definitly home just not in the mood to bite.
We anchor up at our first spot and almost instantly we get a few biters, a bass here a few sculpin there. We picked away at the fish at a steady pace, the best rig seemed to be a 1-2 ounce leadhead(no color preference) with a whole squid pinned on. The squid didn't need to be alive, remember the squid die pretty fast on the hook and they are not like fin bait you can fish them dead they are just as effective! Please try to use your squid until the head is bitten off or your squid is shreaded. It takes quite a bit of work to make squid and from personal experience it frustratin to see perfectly good squid wasted.
With some chum the fish seemed to be a little more willing to bite, and quite a few quality sand bass, calico bass, and jumbo sculpin went into the sacks. Captain Matt decided we would try another one so up came the anchor and off in search of some more fish we went. The same situation as the first spot, lead head and squid, sliding sinker and squid, or dropper loop and squid all were producing fish. We got some more bass and it looked like we were going to get some pretty wide open fishing but the wind came up and shut the bite down a little, but there were some willing biters and a few more bass, sculpin, and some tasty rock fish went into the sacks.
I appologize but I cannot remember if we moved to a different spot or just repositioned the boat on the same rock that we were fishing on the second stop but anyways we had a nice bass bite with multiple hookups the norm. Quite a few fish at this stop were caught on the dropper loop with a strip or a chunk of squid, pulling up rockfish, nice sized sculpin or a bass you didn't know what you would get when you sent your bait down.
At about 2-2:30 the anchor came up for the last time and we were headed for the docks with a three hour boat ride back to the harbor people made themselves comfortable and tried to get some sleep, others stayed up and told some fishing stories, and talked about anything and everything.
It was a really solid trip we ended with:
~41 sand bass
2 calico bass
~65 sculpin(including 1 tagged by dfg )
10-15 rockfish
and lots of happy anglers.
I highly recommed you book your spot on our next trip as soon as possible so you aren't left wishing you were fishing. We might be running this upcoming Wednesday as soon as I find out I'll let you guys know.
Also the jackpot winning fish was a 5-6# calico caught on the dropper loop and squid.
Wednesday night we get a late start waiting for a few passangers who were running a tad late, no worries happens every once in a while. Out of the harbor by 6:30 and make the long run out to the deep hole. Roughly three hours later we start looking for some fish, and they were definitly home just not in the mood to bite.
We anchor up at our first spot and almost instantly we get a few biters, a bass here a few sculpin there. We picked away at the fish at a steady pace, the best rig seemed to be a 1-2 ounce leadhead(no color preference) with a whole squid pinned on. The squid didn't need to be alive, remember the squid die pretty fast on the hook and they are not like fin bait you can fish them dead they are just as effective! Please try to use your squid until the head is bitten off or your squid is shreaded. It takes quite a bit of work to make squid and from personal experience it frustratin to see perfectly good squid wasted.
With some chum the fish seemed to be a little more willing to bite, and quite a few quality sand bass, calico bass, and jumbo sculpin went into the sacks. Captain Matt decided we would try another one so up came the anchor and off in search of some more fish we went. The same situation as the first spot, lead head and squid, sliding sinker and squid, or dropper loop and squid all were producing fish. We got some more bass and it looked like we were going to get some pretty wide open fishing but the wind came up and shut the bite down a little, but there were some willing biters and a few more bass, sculpin, and some tasty rock fish went into the sacks.
I appologize but I cannot remember if we moved to a different spot or just repositioned the boat on the same rock that we were fishing on the second stop but anyways we had a nice bass bite with multiple hookups the norm. Quite a few fish at this stop were caught on the dropper loop with a strip or a chunk of squid, pulling up rockfish, nice sized sculpin or a bass you didn't know what you would get when you sent your bait down.
At about 2-2:30 the anchor came up for the last time and we were headed for the docks with a three hour boat ride back to the harbor people made themselves comfortable and tried to get some sleep, others stayed up and told some fishing stories, and talked about anything and everything.
It was a really solid trip we ended with:
~41 sand bass
2 calico bass
~65 sculpin(including 1 tagged by dfg )
10-15 rockfish
and lots of happy anglers.
I highly recommed you book your spot on our next trip as soon as possible so you aren't left wishing you were fishing. We might be running this upcoming Wednesday as soon as I find out I'll let you guys know.
Also the jackpot winning fish was a 5-6# calico caught on the dropper loop and squid.