Afakasi*Dude
05-31-2007, 12:40 PM
I had originally called 22nd Street landing on Sunday and made a reservation for Tuesday. The gentleman told me that it was going to be a light load and that it would only cost $30 because of the managers special. I must of missed something because when I showed up at the landing on Tuesday, it was closed. As I was getting my stuff out, some dude cruised by and told me that the Pursuit wasn't going out. He said everyone was heading to La Harbor. So I did just that.
We left the dock at around 6:20ish AM because we were waiting for one person who was in the office wanting to get on. This is the first time I've ever seen a boat/skipper actually wait for a person. It didn't bother me but I heard a few grumbling on board.
There were between 25-30 people on board. The skipper announced that we were going to fish at Catalina Island. I was happy because I've never fished there before. The skipper announced the supporting role, Ron(or Ronnie) on deck, Irma (sp?) in the galley and......the skipper announced HER name, but it sounded all garbled on that boat's loudspeaker.
Anyways, we hit the bait receiver on the way out to pick up some sardines. We also had live and frozen squid. We got to the fishing grounds between 9-9:30 AM. The first stop yielded some short calico's (and a few keepers), a barracuda, and a sheephead. Our second spot yielded some more shorts & keeper calicos, another sheephead, a few rockfish, and a whitefish. Our third move had a few pulling up some more sheephead, another barracuda, some more whitefish, and some more calicos. Our fourth and fifth move really didn't yield anything. At least nothing that I could see. By this time we were fishing by the big round rock with all the bird **** on it. On our last spot, we were fishing near some kelp and that's where everyone caught their majority of bass, huge perch, and whitefish. We left the island around 3 PM and made it to the dock around 5:30 PM. The fish counts for that day reflect what was actually caught.
Aside #1: (Borrowing from JapanRon)Since I heard that there may be an opportunity to catch a yellowtail, I went out and bought my first jigs. I got a Tady C (blue/white) for the barracuda (which I didn't catch any on it) and a Salas 6x Jr in scrambled egg and blue/white. On one of the spots where there was kelp, I tied on the scrambled egg and started casting away. Mind you, this is my first time casting a heavy jig (I usually just use those small kastmasters for whatever bites it) and didn't realize those sink really fast....so by the time I was ready to start retrieving it, it already hit the bottom and got stuck. A lesson was learned that day.
Hope you enjoyed reading this.
Until next time,
~Ramon~
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We left the dock at around 6:20ish AM because we were waiting for one person who was in the office wanting to get on. This is the first time I've ever seen a boat/skipper actually wait for a person. It didn't bother me but I heard a few grumbling on board.
There were between 25-30 people on board. The skipper announced that we were going to fish at Catalina Island. I was happy because I've never fished there before. The skipper announced the supporting role, Ron(or Ronnie) on deck, Irma (sp?) in the galley and......the skipper announced HER name, but it sounded all garbled on that boat's loudspeaker.
Anyways, we hit the bait receiver on the way out to pick up some sardines. We also had live and frozen squid. We got to the fishing grounds between 9-9:30 AM. The first stop yielded some short calico's (and a few keepers), a barracuda, and a sheephead. Our second spot yielded some more shorts & keeper calicos, another sheephead, a few rockfish, and a whitefish. Our third move had a few pulling up some more sheephead, another barracuda, some more whitefish, and some more calicos. Our fourth and fifth move really didn't yield anything. At least nothing that I could see. By this time we were fishing by the big round rock with all the bird **** on it. On our last spot, we were fishing near some kelp and that's where everyone caught their majority of bass, huge perch, and whitefish. We left the island around 3 PM and made it to the dock around 5:30 PM. The fish counts for that day reflect what was actually caught.
Aside #1: (Borrowing from JapanRon)Since I heard that there may be an opportunity to catch a yellowtail, I went out and bought my first jigs. I got a Tady C (blue/white) for the barracuda (which I didn't catch any on it) and a Salas 6x Jr in scrambled egg and blue/white. On one of the spots where there was kelp, I tied on the scrambled egg and started casting away. Mind you, this is my first time casting a heavy jig (I usually just use those small kastmasters for whatever bites it) and didn't realize those sink really fast....so by the time I was ready to start retrieving it, it already hit the bottom and got stuck. A lesson was learned that day.
Hope you enjoyed reading this.
Until next time,
~Ramon~
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