murrieta angler
05-23-2008, 12:40 PM
Hello All,
Last week decided to go to Coronado's for the first time on my 23' Yamaha SX230 yesterday.
On Wednesday, the 21st, I filled up the tanks in the truck and the boat so I wouldn't need to at 3:00 a.m. in the morning. Yesterday I woke up at 2:00 a.m. chit, showered and was out the door by 2:30 a.m. Went to pick up my Bro', Puni from his pad and we were off to Sand Diego by 3:15 a.m.
Okay, so far everything is going cool, we stop at 7-11 to get munchies, we launch boat and we head out left from the launch. That was my first mistake.
I wasn't aware that if you go south under the Coronado bridge in the harbor that there was no exit. So there went an hour of the morning that could have been spent on the ride to the island.
Next, I forgot to bring my portable GPS to get to the island, but not a big deal since I have a good idea how to get there....GO SOUTH!
Now the fun part. As well as many of you know the weather wasn't going to be the greatest yesterday. At this time it is now around 6:45 a.m., the temperature was about 57 degrees and it was a lil windy. The water was kinda choppy and we were getting a lil spray over the sides of the boat. No big deal I've been in worse weather. All of a sudden....
SLAM!!! We are looking at 7'-10' swells and just getting hammered with water over the sides and front of the boat. But I don't care cause I want to get me some YT's at the island. Needless to say we took it for about another half hour and decided to turn around and head back, didn't want to be in the news, "That dude" getting rescued by the Coast Guard.
So we are fishing in the harbor with no luck cause of the current, we have to use 4 oz. leads and you couldn' feel a bite cause of all the weight. So we called it a day at 12:00.
The good part of the day was I didn't work, was home by 2:30 and there is always next week... until next time, "Take em any way you can!"
Last week decided to go to Coronado's for the first time on my 23' Yamaha SX230 yesterday.
On Wednesday, the 21st, I filled up the tanks in the truck and the boat so I wouldn't need to at 3:00 a.m. in the morning. Yesterday I woke up at 2:00 a.m. chit, showered and was out the door by 2:30 a.m. Went to pick up my Bro', Puni from his pad and we were off to Sand Diego by 3:15 a.m.
Okay, so far everything is going cool, we stop at 7-11 to get munchies, we launch boat and we head out left from the launch. That was my first mistake.
I wasn't aware that if you go south under the Coronado bridge in the harbor that there was no exit. So there went an hour of the morning that could have been spent on the ride to the island.
Next, I forgot to bring my portable GPS to get to the island, but not a big deal since I have a good idea how to get there....GO SOUTH!
Now the fun part. As well as many of you know the weather wasn't going to be the greatest yesterday. At this time it is now around 6:45 a.m., the temperature was about 57 degrees and it was a lil windy. The water was kinda choppy and we were getting a lil spray over the sides of the boat. No big deal I've been in worse weather. All of a sudden....
SLAM!!! We are looking at 7'-10' swells and just getting hammered with water over the sides and front of the boat. But I don't care cause I want to get me some YT's at the island. Needless to say we took it for about another half hour and decided to turn around and head back, didn't want to be in the news, "That dude" getting rescued by the Coast Guard.
So we are fishing in the harbor with no luck cause of the current, we have to use 4 oz. leads and you couldn' feel a bite cause of all the weight. So we called it a day at 12:00.
The good part of the day was I didn't work, was home by 2:30 and there is always next week... until next time, "Take em any way you can!"