Cat Marlin Hunt 9/25 w-pics

[Red Drum]

Went out fishing Thursday 9/25 aboard the “Big Drum” with Jason “jscrib” and Dave “night8hawk”, to do some trolling in the warmer water off the backside of the west end of Catalina, in hopes of hooking up on a Striped Marlin.

After trolling, trolling, trolling, trolling and some more trolling, we threw in the towel for a couple hours and tried out some critter fishing.

Here is Jason and Dave with a nice Sheephead and Halfmoon.
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h177/Big_Drum/100_2723.jpg

After messing with the nearshore critters, I moved out to a Rockfish spot that I hadn’t tried in probably 3 years. Fortunately, there was a big school of Vermilions on the spot, and they must have chased all the Copper, Blue and Olive Rockfish off the spot. I can deal with that anyday.

We had really good fishing on tasty Reds and some Lingcod….oh and a couple of the endangered Bocaccios.

Jason with a nice Vermilion Rockfish.
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h177/Big_Drum/100_2725.jpg

Dave with a nice Red.
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h177/Big_Drum/100_2726.jpg

Jason with a CPR Wormaccio.
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h177/Big_Drum/100_2728.jpg

Here I am with a double on the stinky CPR Wormaccio’s.
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h177/Big_Drum/100_2724.jpg

Here I am with my best catch of the day, a double on two legal Lingcod. Yippee!!
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h177/Big_Drum/100_2729.jpg

Here’s a pic of the catch o’ the day. A limit of Vermilions and four Lingcod. Sweeeet!! Sure wish they’d bite that good everyday.
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h177/Big_Drum/100_2730.jpg

We trolled again for a couple hours for nothing…well maybe next time…then we heading back to the main land to catch a couple Bass during the evening bite.
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h177/Big_Drum/100_2731.jpg

Although we did not get our main target specie, we all had fun catching a bunch of taco meat. Yumyum!! I can’t wait to go again. HOOK-UP!!

Till next tide,

[Stormcrow]

Wow that was a great report!!! Good day for you guys. I saw some of your smiles in those pictures though. A little too "clown" for me. Were you guys on something that day? haha.

Congrats!

[Sinjin Kim]

:Not Worthy: :Not Worthy: :Not Worthy:

Vince,

Do you ever have a bad day on the water? My goodness, you are one helluva skipper! You definitely have things dialed in. Congrats on all those yummy REDS and lings!

[lakersmn]

SWEET catch!

[Gmoney]

cool report
great pix
love that shot of the double lings - sweeeet

laters
G$

[Ricky-Ray]

Sweet! Looks like it was a fun day.

[supasportkid]

nice catch man!! those are some big boccs and lings!

[Trout Nine]

Nice catch looks like a lot of fun...Maybe some Striped Marlin next trip WTG!!

T.NINE

[JapanRon]

Hi Red Drum,

Super report and fish !! Most excellent !! Nice to see you got a big pair ..... er .... of Lingcod. Had to be great fun.

Appreciate the effort on a great trip.

JapanRon

[Ifishtoolittle]

The 2 of you got that much rockfish nice, that's at least a week of taco meat.

[4g63power]

way to go on tasty bottom critters! looks fun! thanks for posting

[Red Drum]

The 2 of you got that much rockfish nice, that's at least a week of taco meat. There was 3 of us, Vince, Jason and Dave.

[Greg Madrigal]

Crazy *** day on them reds. WTG! Nice post....as always...


GM<<><

[Brian_GSC]

Another great report from Vince! Too bad the stripies didn't want to play.

Nice going on the reds! Those poo-caccios are nice sized too!

[Wingnut]

Awesome job Vince & company... excellent reporting. :Cool: :Big Grin:

[gletemfeelsteelgary]

Dayam....those are some nice quality fish there......slammin them mothas...congrats, especially to those chuncky lings....

Great job on getting on the bite, even if it wasn't what you originally planned for.....sometimes ya get what ya need !
Gary

[exfactor]

Doesn't it take a really long time to get the marlin lure down to the spot?

[Ifishtoolittle]

There was 3 of us, Vince, Jason and Dave.

sorry about that wasn't looking at the pics carefully enough, focusing on the fish. hehe.

[pokerface12]

Nice number on them reds, congrats.

[Red Drum]

Doesn't it take a really long time to get the marlin lure down to the spot?

I guess it would, if you didn't add any extra weight. I've never heard of anyone using a Marlin lure to try and catch Rockcod. I'm sure it could be done, but why bother.

[russ88]

Straight Carnage!!! :EyePop::EyePop:

[Red Drum]

Straight Carnage!!! :EyePop::EyePop:


Tasty carnage most definitely! FRESH-ONE!!

[Beeracuda211]

I love the carnage... Arrrrrr mateyyy!! Me eyes are hurtin from so much blood, where is the grogggggg and rummm :LOL:

Lurkeronly

[one_leg]

Hey Vince.

Great report and pics.

Jason looks different without the glasses.

:Shocked:

Congrats on the catches.