gletemfeelsteelgary
06-08-2009, 11:24 AM
Took the tub to Marina Del Rey Saturday morning, got on the water about 2 hrs from the am high tide on inside swing of it, the timing was good me and my deckhand Geordy remained hopeful that the fish would cooperate.
We trolled on the way out for 1 cuda each and a couple other short strikes.
Hit the T-jetty area, Geordy worked the rockline for bass and I sought out different area’s and structures by working the deeper sandy flats for Halibut.
Geordy was 1st on with a Calico…
Hookup… a nice solid 11-12” or so !~
I think he proceeded to catch about 3 more of variable size b4 I finally made a few casts into Calico country….
Hookup !…we traded hookups for 10-15 minutes
http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn284/garywuebben/MarinawGeordy6-6-09garycalico28.jpg
http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn284/garywuebben/MarinawGeordy6-6-09garycalico15.jpg
then back to the flatfish search….after an hour or so…
Hookup….flattie !....just a pancake but I found some action…
http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn284/garywuebben/MarinawGeordy6-6-09garyhalibut23.jpg
We drift and work our Gulp minnows…now Geordy works the flatty zones with a different ferver…
Hookup !
Geordy’s on…..and …and…..what is behind door #3 ?????
It’s a halibut !
http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn284/garywuebben/MarinawGeordy6-6-09geordyhalibut2.jpg
A little short but a fine fish…congrats Geordy….does the gulp work ???? ha ha ha !
Another 20-30 minutes and into a second zone…
Hookup !
This time it’s me….and “Daddy likes!” it the right Flava too !
Flatfish hits da boat…..nice one……
http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn284/garywuebben/MarinawGeordy6-6-09garyhalibut1.jpg
So…Geordy and I decide to eat it raw while it’s heart is still beating
(lookout Bones…I didn’t release it !)
Ha ha ha ha
No really..
It hits da ice and we fished on…
Slow action overall after that…we picked at many more calicos..
Then…
Hookup….!
Geordy caught a solid Sandbass….(sorry I guess the camera got too much light !)
http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn284/garywuebben/MarinawGeordy6-6-09geordysandbass6.jpg
Then..
Hookup !...... a fighter….Hmnn…
I think I saw Monty hall pass on by cause I swear I heard…”Whats behind door # 2 ?”
It’s….It’s…It’s
It’s a White seabass !
Gulp Lays waste to everything !
http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn284/garywuebben/MarinawGeordy6-6-09garyWSB4.jpg
Then
I was fishing the tit of the jetty and I got this HUGE strike !
Followed by a HUGE hookup ! Drag peeled
Man…I got excited, this was HUGE…drag peeled…and peeled more as my line rapidly ran up to the surface !
I thought I might have a huge WSB but all of the sudden….a smaller model seal porpoises out on the top….he repeatedly surfaces as my line snapped !
That sucka felt some STEEL ! as he struck the Gulp jig….AND it WAS a strike, it didn’t take a fish I had hooked, he hit the jig !
Dayam ! ….Gulp !....everything eats it !
We watched that seal frantically surface and fly out of the water for at least 2000 yards before he went out of sight…I guess he was trying to shake the Gagagaksu jighead !
Oh well….never caught one on a jig before…go figure !
More calico picking and then back to the Halibut zones ….
I believe I got 2 more pancakes then we went and trolled hardbaits for Cudas !
The cuda have way thinned out since the bad weather moved through, hopefully they will return and most were of the smaller variety that we caught (we didn’t take pics of the cudas)
We would hookup every 5 minutes or so and had a few double hookups
We probably caught 10-15 cudas each…
Then while I just finished my double cheeseburger that Geordy bought me (thanks by the way !)
BENDO !........................a HUGE bendo !
Zzzzzz! Drag peeled as I threw the cheeseburger down and grabbed the rod out of the holder….!
A few seconds into the fight the line went slack….No….No……ohh no !
The fish cut it clean…my deductions conclude that means this fish must have had the “whole”lure in it’s mouth in order to cut me off….Dayam !
I think it must have been a big white Seabass or a huge Cuda…I’ll never know but if anyone catches a huge fish with a LC staysee deepdiver in it’s mouth we’ll know then..
We fished on, I caught a YFC on a hardbait as well ..
Geordy trolled on and …
Hookup ! Zzzzz!
Seemed like a REAL NICE cuda !
Unfortunately that sucka shook off…Dayam !
And another White Seabass on the gulp (sorry no pic)
Oh yeah…almost forgot, we had “Freddy” the pelican hang’in out for a while, Geordy gave him his mackerel and he became his best friend !
I was luring him to the boat by waving a gulp to and frow…geordy took a couple pics !
http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn284/garywuebben/MarinawGeordy6-6-09freddy17.jpg
http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn284/garywuebben/MarinawGeordy6-6-09freddy28.jpg
and we called it a day.
Good fun and in bad weather conditions too !, the bite should get even better with a decent weather flow.
We ended up catching:
Geordy:
1 Halibut
1 Sandbass
Many many Calico’s (too many to accurately count)
1 Mackeral
10-15 Cuda (1 lost TOAD !)
Gary
3-4 Halibut (Sorry cannot remember..getting old !...ha ha ha !)
Many many Calico’s
2 White Seabass
1YF croaker
1 Seal (not landed-ha ha ha)
10-15 Cuda
1 Mystery Feesh – lost !! (Seabass or Cuda-toad !)
Till the next slayfest…
Gary
P.P.S.
We also saw a small whale 15' or so...heading out of the harbor...pretty cool stuff...he was too far away to get a pic but he surface 4-5 times...saweet !
We trolled on the way out for 1 cuda each and a couple other short strikes.
Hit the T-jetty area, Geordy worked the rockline for bass and I sought out different area’s and structures by working the deeper sandy flats for Halibut.
Geordy was 1st on with a Calico…
Hookup… a nice solid 11-12” or so !~
I think he proceeded to catch about 3 more of variable size b4 I finally made a few casts into Calico country….
Hookup !…we traded hookups for 10-15 minutes
http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn284/garywuebben/MarinawGeordy6-6-09garycalico28.jpg
http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn284/garywuebben/MarinawGeordy6-6-09garycalico15.jpg
then back to the flatfish search….after an hour or so…
Hookup….flattie !....just a pancake but I found some action…
http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn284/garywuebben/MarinawGeordy6-6-09garyhalibut23.jpg
We drift and work our Gulp minnows…now Geordy works the flatty zones with a different ferver…
Hookup !
Geordy’s on…..and …and…..what is behind door #3 ?????
It’s a halibut !
http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn284/garywuebben/MarinawGeordy6-6-09geordyhalibut2.jpg
A little short but a fine fish…congrats Geordy….does the gulp work ???? ha ha ha !
Another 20-30 minutes and into a second zone…
Hookup !
This time it’s me….and “Daddy likes!” it the right Flava too !
Flatfish hits da boat…..nice one……
http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn284/garywuebben/MarinawGeordy6-6-09garyhalibut1.jpg
So…Geordy and I decide to eat it raw while it’s heart is still beating
(lookout Bones…I didn’t release it !)
Ha ha ha ha
No really..
It hits da ice and we fished on…
Slow action overall after that…we picked at many more calicos..
Then…
Hookup….!
Geordy caught a solid Sandbass….(sorry I guess the camera got too much light !)
http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn284/garywuebben/MarinawGeordy6-6-09geordysandbass6.jpg
Then..
Hookup !...... a fighter….Hmnn…
I think I saw Monty hall pass on by cause I swear I heard…”Whats behind door # 2 ?”
It’s….It’s…It’s
It’s a White seabass !
Gulp Lays waste to everything !
http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn284/garywuebben/MarinawGeordy6-6-09garyWSB4.jpg
Then
I was fishing the tit of the jetty and I got this HUGE strike !
Followed by a HUGE hookup ! Drag peeled
Man…I got excited, this was HUGE…drag peeled…and peeled more as my line rapidly ran up to the surface !
I thought I might have a huge WSB but all of the sudden….a smaller model seal porpoises out on the top….he repeatedly surfaces as my line snapped !
That sucka felt some STEEL ! as he struck the Gulp jig….AND it WAS a strike, it didn’t take a fish I had hooked, he hit the jig !
Dayam ! ….Gulp !....everything eats it !
We watched that seal frantically surface and fly out of the water for at least 2000 yards before he went out of sight…I guess he was trying to shake the Gagagaksu jighead !
Oh well….never caught one on a jig before…go figure !
More calico picking and then back to the Halibut zones ….
I believe I got 2 more pancakes then we went and trolled hardbaits for Cudas !
The cuda have way thinned out since the bad weather moved through, hopefully they will return and most were of the smaller variety that we caught (we didn’t take pics of the cudas)
We would hookup every 5 minutes or so and had a few double hookups
We probably caught 10-15 cudas each…
Then while I just finished my double cheeseburger that Geordy bought me (thanks by the way !)
BENDO !........................a HUGE bendo !
Zzzzzz! Drag peeled as I threw the cheeseburger down and grabbed the rod out of the holder….!
A few seconds into the fight the line went slack….No….No……ohh no !
The fish cut it clean…my deductions conclude that means this fish must have had the “whole”lure in it’s mouth in order to cut me off….Dayam !
I think it must have been a big white Seabass or a huge Cuda…I’ll never know but if anyone catches a huge fish with a LC staysee deepdiver in it’s mouth we’ll know then..
We fished on, I caught a YFC on a hardbait as well ..
Geordy trolled on and …
Hookup ! Zzzzz!
Seemed like a REAL NICE cuda !
Unfortunately that sucka shook off…Dayam !
And another White Seabass on the gulp (sorry no pic)
Oh yeah…almost forgot, we had “Freddy” the pelican hang’in out for a while, Geordy gave him his mackerel and he became his best friend !
I was luring him to the boat by waving a gulp to and frow…geordy took a couple pics !
http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn284/garywuebben/MarinawGeordy6-6-09freddy17.jpg
http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn284/garywuebben/MarinawGeordy6-6-09freddy28.jpg
and we called it a day.
Good fun and in bad weather conditions too !, the bite should get even better with a decent weather flow.
We ended up catching:
Geordy:
1 Halibut
1 Sandbass
Many many Calico’s (too many to accurately count)
1 Mackeral
10-15 Cuda (1 lost TOAD !)
Gary
3-4 Halibut (Sorry cannot remember..getting old !...ha ha ha !)
Many many Calico’s
2 White Seabass
1YF croaker
1 Seal (not landed-ha ha ha)
10-15 Cuda
1 Mystery Feesh – lost !! (Seabass or Cuda-toad !)
Till the next slayfest…
Gary
P.P.S.
We also saw a small whale 15' or so...heading out of the harbor...pretty cool stuff...he was too far away to get a pic but he surface 4-5 times...saweet !