E.A.R.G.
06-23-2010, 09:16 PM
The overnighter I was planning to go on on the agressor got canceled due to boat problems, called 22nd street to see how many reserved for their Wednesday special all day to catalina, they said 80! I was thinking HECK NO, but the guy said he only expected about 45 to show up. So I reserved a spot, planning to get there super early to get a good spot on the boat.
Got there at 3:45 A.M (boat departs at 6) and was 5th in line. Ticket booth opened at 5 am and got my pick of spot, asked for a corner, dude asked me which one and I said, "I don't care... starboard"
Boy was I glad I got that side. Captain put me in front of a kelp patty on six out of seven stops.
Boat ended up loading up 74 people on a full day to Catalina. We were out on our way at 6 A.M, the crew had picked up bait at 4:30 a.m. so that we didn't have to wait for them to buy it. MADD PROPS!
Headed to catalina with a super large group. Most were awesome and fun to chill with. Some were just downright D-bags. (what can you expect on a wednesday 45 dollar special) As I was fishing my corner, I saw coca cola cans float by, coors cans. People popping off their corona tops in the ocean. I saw two people throw an 8 and a 10 inch calico bass in their gunny sacks. Yes I did snitch on them to the deckhands, I told them both first that they were short, they said "we're poor, we need this fish" Didn't want the deckhands potentially getting in a ton of trouble so I told them and they went over and tossed the shorts over. But enough of that... OFF TO THE FISHING!!
First stop, hit a school of bonito that stuck around for about 15 minutes. Saw about 15 come over the rails. I managed a nice 16 inch calico.
2nd stop, bonito went wide on a pretty steady bite. About 1 bonito tossed over the rails every 3 or so minutes for a good hour. First 15 minutes I was tossing a swimmy, got a few short calicos and another legal at 15 inches. I couldn't for the life of me buy a bite on the bone heads. Switched to live bait fly line. STILL NO BITES! I was on 30 lb on my avet, switched over to my bass rod, fly lined a dine on 12 lb test and BAM fish on. one after another after another. Ended up limiting out and then some in about a 20 minute span. BLAST on lighter tackle. Broke off on a few too trying to horse them away from 15 lines down the rail. Consensus says that they were in fact, quite line shy today!
Sea lion came in and wrecked havoc, had to move.
Unfortunately the sea lion decided to follow us every freaking which way we went and shut down fishing a couple minutes after every spot. It was 1s and 2s for the next 4 or so spots. We'd pull up, fast hook ups on bonito/calico and then the sea lion moved in and we'd have to move.
On the bright side, saw some bald eagles come diving down on calicos that were thrown back. EPIC!! there were 2, and we saw them race side by side for them. awesome sight!!!
Jackpot was over 200 bucks I heard, and went to a slightly larger class bonehead. Fish counts stated
74 anglers. 10 Ocean Whitefish, 1 California Scorpionfish, 11 Halfmoon, 100 Pacific Mackerel, 68 Kelp Bass, 172 Pacific Bonito, 4 California Sheephead, 27 Rockfish
I don't know where they get these numbers sometimes. didn't see a single halfmoon, sheephead, or rockfish come up at all.
on a side note. there were these two asian fellows. didn't speak a lick of english. Their equipment was solid good, talking g-loomis and trinidads etc. they were the biggest jackasses on the entire boat. showed up late so they got a crappy spot on the side of the boat. but that didn't stop them from trying to fish the kelp patties by crossing ALL of our lines ALL the time. They would KEEP casting without looking back and the deck hands were giving them HELL for it. They hit one guy in the face with a dine, they smacked some other guy in the jacket, and he knocked off someones hat in the ocean with a cast! Luckily the guy was cool about it, but I would have lost it. Deckhands were constantly chewing them up, but they would keep doing. SUPER frustrating.
was going to use the bonito for bait, but deckies convinced me they were good eating. so I got some filleted, fried it up with some herbs and seasoning... pretty darnn good! Didn't taste like mackerel like I thought it would!
http://fishingnetwork.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=23606
my sack after stop 2!
http://fishingnetwork.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=23603
fish being cleaned. sorry my digital died on me. back to camera phone
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bye bye catalina. till next week!
http://fishingnetwork.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=23604
bonito in rosemary + thyme with a dash of season salt and lemon.
tight lines
Got there at 3:45 A.M (boat departs at 6) and was 5th in line. Ticket booth opened at 5 am and got my pick of spot, asked for a corner, dude asked me which one and I said, "I don't care... starboard"
Boy was I glad I got that side. Captain put me in front of a kelp patty on six out of seven stops.
Boat ended up loading up 74 people on a full day to Catalina. We were out on our way at 6 A.M, the crew had picked up bait at 4:30 a.m. so that we didn't have to wait for them to buy it. MADD PROPS!
Headed to catalina with a super large group. Most were awesome and fun to chill with. Some were just downright D-bags. (what can you expect on a wednesday 45 dollar special) As I was fishing my corner, I saw coca cola cans float by, coors cans. People popping off their corona tops in the ocean. I saw two people throw an 8 and a 10 inch calico bass in their gunny sacks. Yes I did snitch on them to the deckhands, I told them both first that they were short, they said "we're poor, we need this fish" Didn't want the deckhands potentially getting in a ton of trouble so I told them and they went over and tossed the shorts over. But enough of that... OFF TO THE FISHING!!
First stop, hit a school of bonito that stuck around for about 15 minutes. Saw about 15 come over the rails. I managed a nice 16 inch calico.
2nd stop, bonito went wide on a pretty steady bite. About 1 bonito tossed over the rails every 3 or so minutes for a good hour. First 15 minutes I was tossing a swimmy, got a few short calicos and another legal at 15 inches. I couldn't for the life of me buy a bite on the bone heads. Switched to live bait fly line. STILL NO BITES! I was on 30 lb on my avet, switched over to my bass rod, fly lined a dine on 12 lb test and BAM fish on. one after another after another. Ended up limiting out and then some in about a 20 minute span. BLAST on lighter tackle. Broke off on a few too trying to horse them away from 15 lines down the rail. Consensus says that they were in fact, quite line shy today!
Sea lion came in and wrecked havoc, had to move.
Unfortunately the sea lion decided to follow us every freaking which way we went and shut down fishing a couple minutes after every spot. It was 1s and 2s for the next 4 or so spots. We'd pull up, fast hook ups on bonito/calico and then the sea lion moved in and we'd have to move.
On the bright side, saw some bald eagles come diving down on calicos that were thrown back. EPIC!! there were 2, and we saw them race side by side for them. awesome sight!!!
Jackpot was over 200 bucks I heard, and went to a slightly larger class bonehead. Fish counts stated
74 anglers. 10 Ocean Whitefish, 1 California Scorpionfish, 11 Halfmoon, 100 Pacific Mackerel, 68 Kelp Bass, 172 Pacific Bonito, 4 California Sheephead, 27 Rockfish
I don't know where they get these numbers sometimes. didn't see a single halfmoon, sheephead, or rockfish come up at all.
on a side note. there were these two asian fellows. didn't speak a lick of english. Their equipment was solid good, talking g-loomis and trinidads etc. they were the biggest jackasses on the entire boat. showed up late so they got a crappy spot on the side of the boat. but that didn't stop them from trying to fish the kelp patties by crossing ALL of our lines ALL the time. They would KEEP casting without looking back and the deck hands were giving them HELL for it. They hit one guy in the face with a dine, they smacked some other guy in the jacket, and he knocked off someones hat in the ocean with a cast! Luckily the guy was cool about it, but I would have lost it. Deckhands were constantly chewing them up, but they would keep doing. SUPER frustrating.
was going to use the bonito for bait, but deckies convinced me they were good eating. so I got some filleted, fried it up with some herbs and seasoning... pretty darnn good! Didn't taste like mackerel like I thought it would!
http://fishingnetwork.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=23606
my sack after stop 2!
http://fishingnetwork.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=23603
fish being cleaned. sorry my digital died on me. back to camera phone
http://fishingnetwork.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=23605
bye bye catalina. till next week!
http://fishingnetwork.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=23604
bonito in rosemary + thyme with a dash of season salt and lemon.
tight lines