9/13 SpitFire Repp'n BBFC jackpot winner!!! [Archive]

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Ray Lopez

09-16-2008, 06:26 PM

So it has been some time but on 9/13 i went out on the spitfire with my step dad, my cousin in law and his dad (who flew out from New Jersey) mind you none of these guys ever go fishing so i was the resident line man for the day lol.

The woman folk were at my cousins baby shower while us men when and did some fishing.

Got out to Redondo at 5:15 and there were already a good amount of people waiting in line, i was surprised since the boat counts had been light from what i had seen. I would say about 30 people joined us that day. Found out that we were gonna be heading out to Catalina for the day.

We load up on the boat and we got the left back corner not to bad of a spot and it ended up paying off when we went deep.

So we load up on the bait and i crack my first beer (gotta keep it real for my BBFC boyz haha) Then we make the 3 hour tour to the island. The water was calm with no breeze and no waves, it was also overcast sort of looked like we were on a huge lake. Temp was about 70 to 75 degrees outside for most of the day and it was also overcast all day too.

Captain makes his announcement telling us the fishing has been tough but he was gonna try his best to put us on some fish.

We pull up to the first spot of the day on the front side of the island. Load up on dine', chovies' and squid strips. First thing i see is a ton of perch and baby macks everywhere under the boat. I set my step dad up to slay them bad boys and the other guys and myself went with the live bait rigs fly lined. Fishing was not too bad but most of the fish pulled were blue perch and macks with the occasional small calico. I ended up pulling in 2 calico's that were about 14" a bunch of small ones. My step dad was slaying the blue perch, my cousin in law was slaying the small calico's, and his dad was on the big ol skunk. We fish that spot for a few more hours and then pulled up to move further up to the northern end of the island. The fishing here was very bad with hardly anyone getting anything but perch and small sheephead and macks. I rigged us up for perch and we played with them until we moved again. This time the capt said he wanted to try the tip of the island for some deep rock fish. So the boys ran in for lunch and i made haste and re-rigged all 4 rods with 8oz of weight and 2 hooks on the dropper loops. Finished just in time to stop for out first drift in about 200 feet of water. We drop down the boat starts going crazy, people are hooking up left and right. Tons of different rock fish loads of double hook up for everyone on board or at least on my side of the boat. We reel up to go for the second drift. My step dad hooks into a nice fat 5 pound salmon grouper (biggest fish so far on the boat next to the 4 pound calico that someone else caught on the first stop). We were all jazzed because that means he was so far the leading man to get jackpot. Everyone starts hooking into the SG's. We pull up again and make the 3rd drift this time we are in about 250+ feet of water. I drop down and right as i hit bottom i feel a huge tug on my line. I lifted up the tip of my rod and felt tons of resistance. WOOOOOOOOOOOT i'm thinking i got a monster, this thing is heavy whatever it is. After reeling in and fighting the fish for a good 10 mins i get to see some color and it ends up being 2 big SG's They gaf the fish on board and it ended up being a 6 pound SG and a 5.5 pound SG. (hellz yea i got the jackpot fish now) I caught the two biggest fish on the boat on the same line in one shot lol. So after a round of high fives and someone bought me a beer we get back to fishing. We did about 4 more drifts and everyone is still doing great but they were all SG's so the captain makes the decision to make one more move back to the side of the island for some more bass action. My group all is burnt out so they go to the galley and sleep and eat. I tried my luck for some more bass with no love. We pull up and head back in around 3:30pm.

Time for the weigh in. I bring my fish up and the only person that trys to out do me was my step dad even tho i told him i beat his fish by far hahaha. So i ended up getting jackpot for the first time ever. When i won i said "This one is for the Bad Boyz!"

After a few people got me some beers we got back into port and headed home. All of us beat but happy from a fun day out in the salt.

To bad none of you bastards were out there with me but i repped the BBFC for sure.

here are the pics i took:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v28/RayLopez/Fishing%20Photos/housephotos8-27-08067.jpg
Cousin in law Mike, Step Dad Gary, and Cousin laws dad David

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Nice fat blue perch my step dad was happy!

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My two calico's I look disgusted with the small size of them bastards haha

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Shore of catalina

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another shot of the guys

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Action shot of my step dad with his 5 pound salmon grouper

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End shot

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1st Action shot of me battling the 2 SG's

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2nd Action shot of me battling the 2 SG's

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3rd Action shot of me battling the 2 SG's

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4th Action Shot of me battling the 2 SG's

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Shot b-4 gaf

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the smaller one

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Jackpot

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both

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My cousin holding the jackpot fish

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Jackpot

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my bounty!!!!!!!!!!!!!

supasportkid

09-16-2008, 06:45 PM

nice grouper!! congrats on the jp

one_leg

09-16-2008, 06:48 PM

Ray Lopez

09-16-2008, 06:53 PM

Hey RayLo, that's the best report I have read in a long while.

You did us proud!!!

Vic is gonna get a chu**y when he see's you got two huge Cappucino fish on the same drop.

You learned your lessons well.

Congrats to you and your crew for the day!

Nice Giants Sweater your buddy was wearing.

That is prolly why you got the biggest fish.

Who crewed the boat? How were they?

O_L

i didn't catch the names of the crew i was too busy fishing lol.

but it was the same crew i went with you guy with back in feb.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v28/RayLopez/Fishing%20Photos/housephotos8-27-08069.jpg

that was one of the guys! one of the other guys was named Bobby too

and OL i always make the best reports hahaha!!!!!!!!!!!

Im not called the Great White Mexican for nothing! lol

really_drunk

09-16-2008, 06:58 PM

congrats on the j/p bro n way to get the family on the salt!!! i love fishin the spitfire ... deffo a cool crew on that boat!!

Ray Lopez

09-16-2008, 07:00 PM

congrats on the j/p bro n way to get the family on the salt!!! i love fishin the spitfire ... deffo a cool crew on that boat!!

yea they have always treated me right on the Spitfire.

it was fun getting the family out in the water with me to enjoy my addiction lol

one_leg

09-16-2008, 07:05 PM

Morgan and Derek, and BobbyK. Steve at the Helm?

Ray Lopez

09-16-2008, 07:18 PM

Morgan and Derek, and BobbyK. Steve at the Helm?

sounds about right.

there was also that little kid with the red shirt in my pics working the deck too

britheguy

09-16-2008, 08:02 PM

Great Report Ray Lo, Congrats on the JP.

Nice to see you back on the Boards :Wink:.

JapanRon

09-16-2008, 08:32 PM

Hi Ray Lopez,

Great job on the fishys, report, and pics !! Fun read and congrats on the JP !!

JapanRon

ghetto dad

09-16-2008, 08:49 PM

GREAT JOB REPPIN HOMIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Im soooo glad you got to get out and fish brother.....good job on the JP!!!!!!!

GD

troutdog

09-16-2008, 08:56 PM

Way to go Raylo....congrats on the JP!

TD

~larissa

09-16-2008, 08:58 PM

Cappo told me to say....

Nice job on the Bocacas buddy.... :Secret:

Ray Lopez

09-16-2008, 09:45 PM

Great Report Ray Lo, Congrats on the JP.

Nice to see you back on the Boards :Wink:.
im always here lurking just not doing much fishing as of late! It sure was nice to get back out in the water again tho.

GREAT JOB REPPIN HOMIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Im soooo glad you got to get out and fish brother.....good job on the JP!!!!!!!

GD

you know how i do man!

i need to get back out some more, it was so damn good to be out fishing again after being held up in my casa for all these months!

ghetto dad

09-16-2008, 09:48 PM

yeah, me too homie...I AM GOING TO TRY TO GET OUT THIS SUNDAY NIGHT, IF THE LIBERTY GETS ENUF TO GO ON A 1 1/2 DAY!!!!

GD

09-16-2008, 10:34 PM

wtg raylo on the big viccaccios (vic grouper) :ROFL: and winning the jackpot :Cool:

boxl0bster

09-17-2008, 01:20 AM

man those are some nice salmon grouper! good job!

deanhall32

09-17-2008, 07:02 AM

Right on Ray!! It sure is good to see the old BBFC avatar attached to a report!!! Not too many left. Can't wait to come up and jump on the Spit this winter. Maybe we can get the group together again. Thanks again for the report!!

cappo

09-17-2008, 09:01 AM

Woo hooo congrats on the JP win with them ghetto_caccios. Steve tells me he prefers those over any other rockfish.

ghetto dad

09-17-2008, 10:29 AM

Woo hooo congrats on the JP win with them ghetto_caccios. Steve tells me he prefers those over any other rockfish.

Why you gotta bring me into this.......considering you get seasick on most trips......

GD

ghetto dad

09-17-2008, 10:29 AM

Gmoney

09-17-2008, 10:45 AM

yeah no raylo
way to rep bro
glad to hear you're gettin out a bit....keep it up.
thanks for the pix and post and ill see ya round

laters
G$

Ray Lopez

09-17-2008, 08:34 PM

really_drunk

09-17-2008, 08:53 PM

yea the group trips were a blast

i would love to get another one of them going soon

hit me up id love to get together w/ u guys...only been salting for 1 year so i guess that would mean id have to buy the first round huh??

ghetto dad

09-17-2008, 08:54 PM

hit me up id love to get together w/ u guys...only been salting for 1 year so i guess that would mean id have to buy the first round huh??

lol..yep

GD

really_drunk

09-17-2008, 08:56 PM

no worries as long as u guys dont roll like 15 deep :Wink:

ghetto dad

09-17-2008, 08:58 PM

no worries as long as u guys dont roll like 15 deep :Wink:

we have........sorry

GD

really_drunk

09-17-2008, 09:00 PM

doh!!! well id still like to go .... maybe i could get a layaway thing set up w/ the galley:Embarrassed:

cappo

09-17-2008, 09:37 PM

we have........sorry

GD

LOL those were the days when we all actually fished together. Practically had our on charters.

k3vin_kim

09-17-2008, 10:00 PM

yeah.. those were the days.

deanhall32

09-18-2008, 06:43 AM

Well then lets just forget all the B.S. and get back to the group trips guys!! Why not??

ghetto dad

09-18-2008, 11:59 AM

Well then lets just forget all the B.S. and get back to the group trips guys!! Why not??

amen.....new rules...no women...and no winers.....and no sensitive men either.....

GD

russ88

09-19-2008, 11:40 AM

Congrats on the JP! looks like good times.

one_leg

09-19-2008, 11:44 AM

amen.....new rules...no women...and no winers.....and no sensitive men either.....

GD

Poor Hakaveli.......................he'll be real:Angry:now.

09-19-2008, 12:21 PM

amen.....new rules...no women...and no winers.....and no sensitive men either.....

GD

that means half of u women cant go. always on ya rags or u gotta make an appointment :ROFL: :ROFL: :ROFL:

09-19-2008, 12:23 PM

Poor Hakaveli.......................he'll be real:Angry:now.

alan your more sensitive then a pregnant woman wanting ice cream :Twisted: :ROFL:

Ray Lopez

09-30-2008, 09:40 PM

we have........sorry

GD
it's true we would roll pretty deep lol

amen.....new rules...no women...and no winers.....and no sensitive men either.....

GD

but but im a sensitive man, can i still go? *wipes away single emo tear* bwhhsahahahahaha yeeeeeeeeeea right

Stormcrow

10-01-2008, 08:58 AM

That was a great report. I was late getting caught up. Those are some nice fish!!!!

Oh, tell your buddy to lose the giants hoodie.

deanhall32

10-01-2008, 09:14 AM

That was a great report. I was late getting caught up. Those are some nice fish!!!!

Oh, tell your buddy to lose the giants hoodie.

Congrats on your 1000th post. You are now only 10,000 behind One_Leg.

10-01-2008, 09:18 AM

Congrats on your 1000th post. You are now only 10,000 behind One_Leg.

no one will actually catch alan unless they spend hours an hours of sitting in front of the comp posting about anything ;x

Gmoney

10-01-2008, 09:32 AM

did someone mention the word "anything"???
i just needed to post something about anything
wow - i feel so much better now

g$

10-01-2008, 09:38 AM

did someone mention the word "anything"???
i just needed to post something about anything
wow - i feel so much better now

g$

yes very theraputic huh G???? ;x :ROFL:

deanhall32

10-01-2008, 11:03 AM

no one will actually catch alan unless they spend hours an hours of sitting in front of the comp posting about anything ;x

Oz,

Didn't you just get back from Cabo? Where is the report???

10-01-2008, 09:06 PM

Oz,

Didn't you just get back from Cabo? Where is the report???

dean what u smoking homie ;x some good ish??? ;x :Twisted: i havent even left yet...i go tomorrow mannnnnnnnnn ;x :Twisted: dont worry there will be picz from both myself and viccaccio ;x :ROFL: