surfnfish
11-23-2008, 09:05 PM
First off I'd like too apologize for not posting any pictures with this report. I know that will discourage a lot of people from continuing reading but you should because this weekend was awesome. I simply didn't have time for pictures because we were filming a TV show and it was just a major hassle. soon I'll have it all on film:Envious:
So anyway, the show that I got to be part of is called " Going Coastal with Byron Velvick" Yes, Byron Velvick, as in the Bass Master Elite Series Pro, needless to stat I was stoked. Turns out he and my boss, Mike Gardner are old friends and Byron wanted to have him and Mike fishing together as one of the first episodes of his new show. I was way happy just to get to tag along.
Saturday found Mike and I on the road early so that we could meet Byron down in San Diego Bay at 6:30. It was way foggy down there and the water temps were down 4 degrees form two weeks ago, but that did't slow the bite at all. We fished Gulp! Shrimp and grubs in mostly New Penny and Nuclear Chicken. I also did very well dropshotting an Optimum Wacky Shad. one good thing about the fog was that we could fish our favorite shorelines for longer than ten minutes without getting chased off. We ran all over the bay gettin a ton of footage for the show and ended with what i would say conservatively was 140 mixed fish, 95% of them were Spotties, but we also got Calicos, Sandbass and a few little Halibut.
Day two, Sunday. We launched with the guys out of Sunset Aquatic Marina in Huntington Harbor. The plan today was to go outside and try to get some bigger fish. Well, we hit the rigs first por nada but a major mack attack. We ditched the rigs and ran to some shallow hard bottom spots. Right about then the tide started to swing and the bite went wide open. Unfortunately, all small fish again. We booked it down to the power plant and I pulled a fast one on my first cast with a crank. I cast it before the boat even stopped, cranked hard and got it down deep. I felt my bait bounce off one rock and right away my rod loaded on what would be the big fish of the day. A nice fat lil calico, probablly around 4 lbs. I put my crankbait away and went back to the plastics, it was really funny seein the expression on Byron's face after he watched me one up him with what he considered to be a total freshwater bait. We picked off a few more, then headed to find the Pipe with zero fish on it. We had to call it pretty early because Byron and his guys had to get over to Catalina to film another episode. We went back to the hard bottom for maybe twenty more mixed fish and called it about noon. Today between Mike Byron and I we had somewhere between 80 and 90 bass and a few shallow water rockfish.
This was one the best times I've ever had fishing. Not necessarily the fishing because I've had days with more and definately much bigger fish, but we still did well considering the conditions. Plus, I get to be on tv:Big Grin:. Byron is an absolutely incredible fisherman and a great guy to be around. I learned so much watching him and talking to him. We had a LOOONGGG talk about swimbaits for LMBs and I think I'm definately gonna be more successful with the advice he's given me. I wish him all the best on the Tour and I hope I can fish with him again soon.
Hope you guys enjoyed, again sorry about no pictures, just watch it on TV:Big Grin:
So anyway, the show that I got to be part of is called " Going Coastal with Byron Velvick" Yes, Byron Velvick, as in the Bass Master Elite Series Pro, needless to stat I was stoked. Turns out he and my boss, Mike Gardner are old friends and Byron wanted to have him and Mike fishing together as one of the first episodes of his new show. I was way happy just to get to tag along.
Saturday found Mike and I on the road early so that we could meet Byron down in San Diego Bay at 6:30. It was way foggy down there and the water temps were down 4 degrees form two weeks ago, but that did't slow the bite at all. We fished Gulp! Shrimp and grubs in mostly New Penny and Nuclear Chicken. I also did very well dropshotting an Optimum Wacky Shad. one good thing about the fog was that we could fish our favorite shorelines for longer than ten minutes without getting chased off. We ran all over the bay gettin a ton of footage for the show and ended with what i would say conservatively was 140 mixed fish, 95% of them were Spotties, but we also got Calicos, Sandbass and a few little Halibut.
Day two, Sunday. We launched with the guys out of Sunset Aquatic Marina in Huntington Harbor. The plan today was to go outside and try to get some bigger fish. Well, we hit the rigs first por nada but a major mack attack. We ditched the rigs and ran to some shallow hard bottom spots. Right about then the tide started to swing and the bite went wide open. Unfortunately, all small fish again. We booked it down to the power plant and I pulled a fast one on my first cast with a crank. I cast it before the boat even stopped, cranked hard and got it down deep. I felt my bait bounce off one rock and right away my rod loaded on what would be the big fish of the day. A nice fat lil calico, probablly around 4 lbs. I put my crankbait away and went back to the plastics, it was really funny seein the expression on Byron's face after he watched me one up him with what he considered to be a total freshwater bait. We picked off a few more, then headed to find the Pipe with zero fish on it. We had to call it pretty early because Byron and his guys had to get over to Catalina to film another episode. We went back to the hard bottom for maybe twenty more mixed fish and called it about noon. Today between Mike Byron and I we had somewhere between 80 and 90 bass and a few shallow water rockfish.
This was one the best times I've ever had fishing. Not necessarily the fishing because I've had days with more and definately much bigger fish, but we still did well considering the conditions. Plus, I get to be on tv:Big Grin:. Byron is an absolutely incredible fisherman and a great guy to be around. I learned so much watching him and talking to him. We had a LOOONGGG talk about swimbaits for LMBs and I think I'm definately gonna be more successful with the advice he's given me. I wish him all the best on the Tour and I hope I can fish with him again soon.
Hope you guys enjoyed, again sorry about no pictures, just watch it on TV:Big Grin: