Red Drum
11-16-2008, 08:39 PM
Took Jason “jscrib” and Yen “flyfisher” up to Santa Barbara for some shallow water Rockfishing. Since this was Jason's Birthday fishing trip, he wanted me to take him to a spot that I call “Brown Love” because it's loaded with so many tasty Brown Rockfish.
While driving up from the San Fernando Valley, it looked like we were driving throught snow flurries because of all the ashes from the Sylmar wild fire.
Here is an early morning picture of the Santa Barbara harbor and the smoke from the Montecito wild fire.
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h177/Big_Drum/YenBrownLove11-16-08001.jpg
We went to the bait receiver to buy some bait, but they had no bait to sell because a Seal had chewed a whole in their net the night before and ate all the bait. No worries, we metered a ton of bait out near the pier and put about 60 mini-macs, sardines and smelt in the bait tank in less than 10 minutes.
Yen with a typical bait haul.
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h177/Big_Drum/YenBrownLove11-16-08002.jpg
Another nice haul of bait.
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h177/Big_Drum/YenBrownLove11-16-08003.jpg
Jason and Yen.
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h177/Big_Drum/YenBrownLove11-16-08004.jpg
Jason and nice Brown Rockfish.
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h177/Big_Drum/YenBrownLove11-16-08005.jpg
Another tasty Chocolate Bass.
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h177/Big_Drum/YenBrownLove11-16-08006-1.jpg
Yen with a nice Brownie.
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h177/Big_Drum/YenBrownLove11-16-08007-1.jpg
We also caught some nice Kelp Rockfish.
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h177/Big_Drum/YenBrownLove11-16-08009-1.jpg
Here’s a picture of some of the limit of SWR that we caught. Yummy fish taco meat right there…sweeet!
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h177/Big_Drum/YenBrownLove11-16-08010.jpg
We drifted for Halibut near the harbor until the sun went down.
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h177/Big_Drum/YenBrownLove11-16-08015.jpg
Although we didn’t catch any Halibut, we still had a very relaxing and fun day fishing the beautiful Santa Barbara coast line, can’t wait to do it again. HOOK-UP!!
Till next tide,
While driving up from the San Fernando Valley, it looked like we were driving throught snow flurries because of all the ashes from the Sylmar wild fire.
Here is an early morning picture of the Santa Barbara harbor and the smoke from the Montecito wild fire.
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h177/Big_Drum/YenBrownLove11-16-08001.jpg
We went to the bait receiver to buy some bait, but they had no bait to sell because a Seal had chewed a whole in their net the night before and ate all the bait. No worries, we metered a ton of bait out near the pier and put about 60 mini-macs, sardines and smelt in the bait tank in less than 10 minutes.
Yen with a typical bait haul.
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h177/Big_Drum/YenBrownLove11-16-08002.jpg
Another nice haul of bait.
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h177/Big_Drum/YenBrownLove11-16-08003.jpg
Jason and Yen.
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h177/Big_Drum/YenBrownLove11-16-08004.jpg
Jason and nice Brown Rockfish.
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h177/Big_Drum/YenBrownLove11-16-08005.jpg
Another tasty Chocolate Bass.
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h177/Big_Drum/YenBrownLove11-16-08006-1.jpg
Yen with a nice Brownie.
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h177/Big_Drum/YenBrownLove11-16-08007-1.jpg
We also caught some nice Kelp Rockfish.
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h177/Big_Drum/YenBrownLove11-16-08009-1.jpg
Here’s a picture of some of the limit of SWR that we caught. Yummy fish taco meat right there…sweeet!
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h177/Big_Drum/YenBrownLove11-16-08010.jpg
We drifted for Halibut near the harbor until the sun went down.
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h177/Big_Drum/YenBrownLove11-16-08015.jpg
Although we didn’t catch any Halibut, we still had a very relaxing and fun day fishing the beautiful Santa Barbara coast line, can’t wait to do it again. HOOK-UP!!
Till next tide,