jplee3
05-28-2007, 09:21 PM
Went up to PH with several buddies for the first time and also for my first time on a fishing boat! I was so stoked and have been waiting almost 2 months for the experience! Glad to say that it was WELL worth the anguishing wait! Today was off the hook - they really weren't kidding about the action up there. Everyone was catching rock fish left and right. The jackpot winner was either a huge salmon grouper or at least a 10-15lb ling, which were BOTH caught by the same guy. So it was basically no contest. Being a first-timer, and not much of a gambler, I opted out of the jackpot.
Anyway, I maxed out on my limit, but only caught a couple chilipepper rockfish and the rest vermillion rockfish; I believe... so not much variety. My largest was a 4.5lber. There were a couple of 'dinks' in there too, which I got at first and kept (had NO Idea what to expect!), but towards the end we were pulling in 2-3lb average sized fish. It was real nice. The thing that helped me out was my "3-pt shot range" [read: hooking up two fish on the reel-in]. Bwahahahahaaha. I got double hookups like 3 times! Each time with rockfish progressively larger! The very last drop I almost skunked but decided to drop my line back down to the bottom and ended up reeling in the double. It was fun! My arms are KILLING me. Back, shoulders, chest, etc as well. I have welts around my stomach from not having a fight belt and having weak arms. Hahahahaha.
On the second to last drop, I farmed what I think was a lingcod... possibly doubled with a rockfish - it felt like I was trying to reel in a NET. But lines got tied up real bad and after reeling up I found my bait on both hooks missing as well as BOTH hooks being bent out of shape, ESPECIALLY the bottom one (circle hooks). I also felt quite a bit of head-shaking on that one, which is why I think it may have been a ling :evil: :x \ :(
Everyone else who was tied up with me reeled in a fish too! :twisted: Grrrrr...
Anyway, I was using a double dropper loop setup the whole time. I wanted to max out on the rocks before trying something else. But it took me the whole time to finally max out. Hehe... man, I can't believe how deep we were fishing too. It must have been at least 400ft. It seemed like line never stopped free spooling.
All fish were caught on squid strips. They had anchovies but I didn't try. They didn't seem to want ppl to use chovies for some reason, and didn't put any into the live wells. I felt weird reaching into the big bait well too, so I just didn't use any. On the farmed fish I think was a ling, I had a strip of rockfish and piece of squid on the hook (and after farming it, the hook was bent pretty well too)
Oh yea! Also saw tons of schools of dolphins swimming with the boats.
Anyway, enough talking and onto the pictures!
http://jermdawg.com/gallery/d/4343-2/img_1528.jpg
Weight Watchers - a great way to lose weight... Bait watchers - a great way to lose bait
http://jermdawg.com/gallery/d/4350-2/img_1530.jpg
Chovies
http://jermdawg.com/gallery/d/4353-3/img_1532.jpg
Leaving port
http://jermdawg.com/gallery/d/4377-3/img_1548.jpg
A couple of bigger ones I pulled out. Sorry! No action pics!
http://jermdawg.com/gallery/d/4380-3/img_1549.jpg
One of my friends with a couple nice ones
http://jermdawg.com/gallery/d/4383-2/img_1550.jpg
The group of us (one missing)
http://jermdawg.com/gallery/d/4392-3/img_1553.jpg
Another buddy with his catch
http://jermdawg.com/gallery/d/4374-6/img_1547.jpg
Jackpot winner. I think he got upset at me because I almost took an anchovy he picked out and put into the live well. I didn't know any better - I didn't see him throw it in there, and when I walked over, there were a couple swimming around, so I thought it was open for taking. Oh well, at least he won the jackpot 8)
http://jermdawg.com/gallery/d/4395-2/img_1556.jpg
Sean (? Shawn? Jon? hahaha...) cleaning/gutting/filleting fish. Very nice guy. The entire crew of the Erna-B are extremely nice, helpful, and knowledgeable.
http://jermdawg.com/gallery/d/4401-2/img_1558.jpg
This seagull was getting real close. Along with 50000000 other buddies. Good thing I had my hat on :)
http://jermdawg.com/gallery/d/4416-2/dsc_9225.jpg
http://jermdawg.com/gallery/d/4443-2/dsc_9214.jpg
The final catch. I'm satisfied :D :D :D
BTW: I have no idea how to store the larger fish. There's no room in my freezer! UGH
Anyway, I maxed out on my limit, but only caught a couple chilipepper rockfish and the rest vermillion rockfish; I believe... so not much variety. My largest was a 4.5lber. There were a couple of 'dinks' in there too, which I got at first and kept (had NO Idea what to expect!), but towards the end we were pulling in 2-3lb average sized fish. It was real nice. The thing that helped me out was my "3-pt shot range" [read: hooking up two fish on the reel-in]. Bwahahahahaaha. I got double hookups like 3 times! Each time with rockfish progressively larger! The very last drop I almost skunked but decided to drop my line back down to the bottom and ended up reeling in the double. It was fun! My arms are KILLING me. Back, shoulders, chest, etc as well. I have welts around my stomach from not having a fight belt and having weak arms. Hahahahaha.
On the second to last drop, I farmed what I think was a lingcod... possibly doubled with a rockfish - it felt like I was trying to reel in a NET. But lines got tied up real bad and after reeling up I found my bait on both hooks missing as well as BOTH hooks being bent out of shape, ESPECIALLY the bottom one (circle hooks). I also felt quite a bit of head-shaking on that one, which is why I think it may have been a ling :evil: :x \ :(
Everyone else who was tied up with me reeled in a fish too! :twisted: Grrrrr...
Anyway, I was using a double dropper loop setup the whole time. I wanted to max out on the rocks before trying something else. But it took me the whole time to finally max out. Hehe... man, I can't believe how deep we were fishing too. It must have been at least 400ft. It seemed like line never stopped free spooling.
All fish were caught on squid strips. They had anchovies but I didn't try. They didn't seem to want ppl to use chovies for some reason, and didn't put any into the live wells. I felt weird reaching into the big bait well too, so I just didn't use any. On the farmed fish I think was a ling, I had a strip of rockfish and piece of squid on the hook (and after farming it, the hook was bent pretty well too)
Oh yea! Also saw tons of schools of dolphins swimming with the boats.
Anyway, enough talking and onto the pictures!
http://jermdawg.com/gallery/d/4343-2/img_1528.jpg
Weight Watchers - a great way to lose weight... Bait watchers - a great way to lose bait
http://jermdawg.com/gallery/d/4350-2/img_1530.jpg
Chovies
http://jermdawg.com/gallery/d/4353-3/img_1532.jpg
Leaving port
http://jermdawg.com/gallery/d/4377-3/img_1548.jpg
A couple of bigger ones I pulled out. Sorry! No action pics!
http://jermdawg.com/gallery/d/4380-3/img_1549.jpg
One of my friends with a couple nice ones
http://jermdawg.com/gallery/d/4383-2/img_1550.jpg
The group of us (one missing)
http://jermdawg.com/gallery/d/4392-3/img_1553.jpg
Another buddy with his catch
http://jermdawg.com/gallery/d/4374-6/img_1547.jpg
Jackpot winner. I think he got upset at me because I almost took an anchovy he picked out and put into the live well. I didn't know any better - I didn't see him throw it in there, and when I walked over, there were a couple swimming around, so I thought it was open for taking. Oh well, at least he won the jackpot 8)
http://jermdawg.com/gallery/d/4395-2/img_1556.jpg
Sean (? Shawn? Jon? hahaha...) cleaning/gutting/filleting fish. Very nice guy. The entire crew of the Erna-B are extremely nice, helpful, and knowledgeable.
http://jermdawg.com/gallery/d/4401-2/img_1558.jpg
This seagull was getting real close. Along with 50000000 other buddies. Good thing I had my hat on :)
http://jermdawg.com/gallery/d/4416-2/dsc_9225.jpg
http://jermdawg.com/gallery/d/4443-2/dsc_9214.jpg
The final catch. I'm satisfied :D :D :D
BTW: I have no idea how to store the larger fish. There's no room in my freezer! UGH