Beating the heat in the bay 5/18

[troutdog]

After a great night at the Corona event, I headed for the Newport Dunes resort(thanks for the info VG!) to meet up with ScaryCary and ReelinRonnie for a day of fishing in NPH and beat the heat. SC had been wanting to launch his boat for about a month now and we finally had the opportunity!

Capt ScaryCary
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With the 80 plus degree temps the bay was a busy place, but still a pleasure nonetheless!
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Another day in paradise in So Cal...
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Hit the first "spot" and it gave up a double hookup for SC and I right off the bat....a micro sandie for the Capt and my 2nd ever spotty, skunk be gone! Drop shotting small plastics proved to be a good idea.
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The same spot produced SC's first ever spottie...the smile says it all
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If you see this boat docked up, you may want to fish the adjacent area for spotties
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Decided to try and find the barries that I had heard about so we fished near the bait barge....got quite a few followers on the 5/8oz prism kroc, but there was a ton of bait in the water. Took a nice cruise around the bay to check out the sights, all the while I was trolling a LC Tenn Shad. Finally found a few willing to put the bend in our rods....they were hanging right in front of Davey's Locker. Guy fishing the dock area caught a nice wsb, but it was 2 inches shy of making the dinner table. The cudas were on the small side, but put up a nice little battle.
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We got slammed on the next pass as well, it was Ronnie's turn to boot the skunk!
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We rounded out the day with a few more pencils, but the bass proved elusive the remainder of the day although we gave it our best shot. Had a great time with some great guys....looking forward to the next time!

Thanks for reading,


TD

[sonarbp]

Nice report troutdog!!!! I was fishing the bay from my tube on sat and sun....beautiful weather and tons of fish!!!! Landed 6 hali and 30+ spotties and my first ever midshipman. Looks like the fish are on the chew!!!!

sonarbp

[doyoufishmuch]

Sweet. Cant hate on beautiful weather. Nice report.

[SoCalGirl7]

Nice pics! Looks like you were A LOT cooler than we were at Corona.

I've swam in the harbor many times before....I didn't know there were 'cudas there! :Shocked:

Sounds like you had a great day out there! :D

SoCalGirl7

[flyngby]

Nice job out there!!!!!!

NPH is a Great Place and also a spot to go the get relief from the heat and to turn up the heat on the Fish!!!

Nice multi-species day out there. Nice Report.

Hope to run into you out there some day.

I will be out there this Saturday the 24th with my son and anInvited guest on my boat.

[Troutman65]

:cool: TD & Co.

Congrats on your catch.


Thanks for the post.


TM65

[crappiemike]

Thnx For The Salt Report Td, Cachuma Run Soon?

[Liteliner]

Man your all over the place!!! :lol: If you go out there again fish close to daveys. There is always fish around there.

[Wingnut]

What a nice looking day out there TD. Hope the weather stays nice when I pay a visit to the area on Saturday. ;) :D
Nice job on the fish. :cool:

[troutdog]

Thanks for all the replys feedback....much appreciated!

CM we definitely gotta do Cachuma like we talked about....

See you on the water!


TD

[klocked]

Good job on those fish TD!! Looks like you guys had a blast out there.

Klocked

[SoCalGuy7]

Sweet deal, fresh and salt....same weekend......Nice...

SCG7