E.A.R.G.
09-18-2010, 09:50 PM
We chartered the westerly out of pierpoint landing.
I guess bad reports are just as important as good reports?
Take of this report what you wish.
I called the captain the night before asking what we would be going for. He said rockfish and calicos.
I kinda didn't feel right about fishing for those on an overnighter trip to catalina. Maybe a 3/4 day local or maybe even a full day to catalina, but definitely not an overnighter. I asked if we would be targeting the bonito that the other full day boats had been hitting at the island (The day before one boat went 150 bonito 2-7lb class for 30 anglers) and the captain said maybe. I asked about the sporadic schoolie yellows off the front side and he said no, only the small boats can get those. He made it pretty clear that rockfish and calicos were what he wanted to target.
Captain pulls up front side to try to make squid. No squid floated, so he shut off the lights after about an hour and I knocked out. Woke up to grey light, still in the same place. Tried fishing but there was absolutely nothing around. Captain gets up at around 6 A.M. to move to the first stop. (That was the first thing that got me, wasting gray light bite on moving?)
Captain moved to a rock fish spot that produced nothing. But we stayed for a couple hours or so. Wasted gray light on rock fish that didn't produce.
Long story short, we hit 2 rockfish spots and then we went... you got it... perch fishing.
I ended up with about 20 short calicos, 1 legal calico, 1 sheep, 4 rockfish. And I had one of the most fish caught on the boat.
Went home checked the counts
Westerly Overnight 21 anglers- 19 Halfmoon, 210 Rockfish, 8 California Sheephead, 46 Kelp Bass, 21 Ocean Whitefish
The counts were more about 50 rockfish, 15 halfmoon, 3 sheephead, 15 calicos, 5 whitefish.
The numbers were soooo fudged on this trip.
But I guess alotta these boats have been fudging numbers.
The deck hands were real cool, the galley chef was amazing. The captain really left a bad taste. He really came up this trip though, we moved only about 2 miles up the island the whole trip.
I probably won't be returning to their boat.
Lot of fun still with good friends, good company, great food, and fishing.
if you guys are thinking about chartering though, I would consider a different option though.
TIGHT LINES
earg
I guess bad reports are just as important as good reports?
Take of this report what you wish.
I called the captain the night before asking what we would be going for. He said rockfish and calicos.
I kinda didn't feel right about fishing for those on an overnighter trip to catalina. Maybe a 3/4 day local or maybe even a full day to catalina, but definitely not an overnighter. I asked if we would be targeting the bonito that the other full day boats had been hitting at the island (The day before one boat went 150 bonito 2-7lb class for 30 anglers) and the captain said maybe. I asked about the sporadic schoolie yellows off the front side and he said no, only the small boats can get those. He made it pretty clear that rockfish and calicos were what he wanted to target.
Captain pulls up front side to try to make squid. No squid floated, so he shut off the lights after about an hour and I knocked out. Woke up to grey light, still in the same place. Tried fishing but there was absolutely nothing around. Captain gets up at around 6 A.M. to move to the first stop. (That was the first thing that got me, wasting gray light bite on moving?)
Captain moved to a rock fish spot that produced nothing. But we stayed for a couple hours or so. Wasted gray light on rock fish that didn't produce.
Long story short, we hit 2 rockfish spots and then we went... you got it... perch fishing.
I ended up with about 20 short calicos, 1 legal calico, 1 sheep, 4 rockfish. And I had one of the most fish caught on the boat.
Went home checked the counts
Westerly Overnight 21 anglers- 19 Halfmoon, 210 Rockfish, 8 California Sheephead, 46 Kelp Bass, 21 Ocean Whitefish
The counts were more about 50 rockfish, 15 halfmoon, 3 sheephead, 15 calicos, 5 whitefish.
The numbers were soooo fudged on this trip.
But I guess alotta these boats have been fudging numbers.
The deck hands were real cool, the galley chef was amazing. The captain really left a bad taste. He really came up this trip though, we moved only about 2 miles up the island the whole trip.
I probably won't be returning to their boat.
Lot of fun still with good friends, good company, great food, and fishing.
if you guys are thinking about chartering though, I would consider a different option though.
TIGHT LINES
earg