NY4Reels!
04-27-2009, 10:54 PM
Tom and I decided to hit up the El Dorado out of Long Beach Sport Fishing for an over nighter on Friday PM. My wife bought me a gift certificate for Xmas for the landing, but I misplaced it and went nuts looking for it to no avail. Steve, GD was there and I showed him my wife’s CC statement and my reservation number. I have fished with him on a cattle boat in the past and he remembered me. My camera batteries had died and we was nice enough to hook me up with another set para gratis! So Friday night he hooked me up again and honored my reservation and gift certificate! Now how awesome was that!!??
Now back to the trip. The wind was up as we left the port and made for a bumpy ride over. I felt like a hotdog rolling back and forth on a grill! The wind was relentless and the boat rocked and pitched all night long. Tom slept like a baby and I didn’t sleep a wink! I couldn’t wait for gray light, but when it came so did the wind! Man was it howling! Turns out that it made our original spot unfishable, so we move around for a better location. Basically the wind was up all day with a small craft advisory out of Avalon. The bite was non existent today…..
Only a hand full of fish were caught. Tom was first up with a huge *** ray that took him around the boat 1.5 times. I managed a 10 lb black C-bass on my bass rod. It was an awesome fight. He peeled my line several times. Man that sucker was feisty. Took a pic and sent him back home to grow up and make some babies.
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w28/Glenncasale/eldorado42409/bsb.jpg
That was it for a long while. We spent most of our time on the back side of the island searching for C-bass moving here and there. Finally after noon the captain decides to move to the front of the island. At least the wind was not as bad there. He put us on a reef just west of Avalon where we had a pick of short calicos.
I managed 8 shorts, a keeper sheepshead, and a Garibaldi!! How embarrassing!!! I pull up this flame orange fish. I couldn’t wait to shake it off the hook and send it back into the water…….
We made one more stop it was pretty dead there too, but I hooked into a Bonita on my jig stick using a 1 oz Kastmaster. It fought for a while and then came straight for the boat as a seal started to chase it. I reeled as fast as I could before it went under the boat. The guy next to me didn’t know if he was under or over so he couldn’t get out of the way. By that time I lost the Bonita. My line got stuck on a piece of wood on the side of the boat. It would have been the JP fish, but that’s the way it goes. A small grass bass had won it! Captain Eddie had caught the other bonito so it didn’t count.
Well it sure wasn’t a lack of effort by the captain, crew or anglers. It was just difficult to fish with all that wind. It basically shut the bite down. I’m heading out of Dana Point this coming Friday night hopefully to redeem myself at San Clemente Island!
Now back to the trip. The wind was up as we left the port and made for a bumpy ride over. I felt like a hotdog rolling back and forth on a grill! The wind was relentless and the boat rocked and pitched all night long. Tom slept like a baby and I didn’t sleep a wink! I couldn’t wait for gray light, but when it came so did the wind! Man was it howling! Turns out that it made our original spot unfishable, so we move around for a better location. Basically the wind was up all day with a small craft advisory out of Avalon. The bite was non existent today…..
Only a hand full of fish were caught. Tom was first up with a huge *** ray that took him around the boat 1.5 times. I managed a 10 lb black C-bass on my bass rod. It was an awesome fight. He peeled my line several times. Man that sucker was feisty. Took a pic and sent him back home to grow up and make some babies.
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w28/Glenncasale/eldorado42409/bsb.jpg
That was it for a long while. We spent most of our time on the back side of the island searching for C-bass moving here and there. Finally after noon the captain decides to move to the front of the island. At least the wind was not as bad there. He put us on a reef just west of Avalon where we had a pick of short calicos.
I managed 8 shorts, a keeper sheepshead, and a Garibaldi!! How embarrassing!!! I pull up this flame orange fish. I couldn’t wait to shake it off the hook and send it back into the water…….
We made one more stop it was pretty dead there too, but I hooked into a Bonita on my jig stick using a 1 oz Kastmaster. It fought for a while and then came straight for the boat as a seal started to chase it. I reeled as fast as I could before it went under the boat. The guy next to me didn’t know if he was under or over so he couldn’t get out of the way. By that time I lost the Bonita. My line got stuck on a piece of wood on the side of the boat. It would have been the JP fish, but that’s the way it goes. A small grass bass had won it! Captain Eddie had caught the other bonito so it didn’t count.
Well it sure wasn’t a lack of effort by the captain, crew or anglers. It was just difficult to fish with all that wind. It basically shut the bite down. I’m heading out of Dana Point this coming Friday night hopefully to redeem myself at San Clemente Island!