Webfoot
07-26-2007, 07:46 PM
Boarded the Grande Monday evening and got started off around 10 pm. Headed directly to bait receivers for a mix of 70% percent anchovies and 30% Sardines. The crew carefully transferred the bait to the tanks while the captain James himself did all the net handling from the receivers taking only small scoops to insure the best bait possible.
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Tuesday morning started out with us fishing and area roughly 36 miles south of point Loma.
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The captain was reluctant to fish so close to home on a two day trip but he didn’t want to overshoot the fish by going to far south. The grey bite produced nothing for us so it was off to trolling and sonaring in search of some of the larger Albacore schools. We started picking off of few fish on the troll until some of the schools begin showing on the sonar. After running a few chum circles the fish begin to surface and boil up around the boat on several bait stops. The crew used up a lot of our bait chumming and our supply started to dwindle towards the end of the day. The Galilean had just finished off its one day trip and offered up it remaining bait to us to help out with the evening bite, thanks guys.
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Our first day on the water produced a total 57 fish with 14 coming on the troll and the rest on bait.
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Since we were so close to home the captain decided to head back to bait receivers to net up some more of those prime anchovies. We motored back out to the albacore grounds and started Wednesday morning fishing a little further down, around 45 miles south of Point Loma. The grey light bite produced two hookups for us with one albacore caught. The albacore schools were more scattered and playing hard to get. Still managed to find a few decent schools and ended our second day on the water with around 14 bait caught fish all falling for the anchovies.
I managed only one albacore on this trip but was happy with Grande, The captain worked hard on keeping us supplied with primo bait and kept on the move finding fish for us. The chef was great and prepared some of the best boat food I’ve ever had. The deck hands were good with the gaffs and made the effort to help everyone out. The layout Of the boat is nice, it has a large Galley and the deck space is spacious allowing ample tackle storage and room to fish. The bunks are quaint but comfortable and I would recommend getting one on the side to avoid the center double rowed bunks. All in all it was a pleasant trip and I managed to get in on some decent fishing and catch up on some much needed rest.
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Tuesday morning started out with us fishing and area roughly 36 miles south of point Loma.
http://fishingnetwork.net/images/tmp2/Grande06.JPG
The captain was reluctant to fish so close to home on a two day trip but he didn’t want to overshoot the fish by going to far south. The grey bite produced nothing for us so it was off to trolling and sonaring in search of some of the larger Albacore schools. We started picking off of few fish on the troll until some of the schools begin showing on the sonar. After running a few chum circles the fish begin to surface and boil up around the boat on several bait stops. The crew used up a lot of our bait chumming and our supply started to dwindle towards the end of the day. The Galilean had just finished off its one day trip and offered up it remaining bait to us to help out with the evening bite, thanks guys.
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Our first day on the water produced a total 57 fish with 14 coming on the troll and the rest on bait.
http://fishingnetwork.net/images/tmp2/Grande08.JPG
http://fishingnetwork.net/images/tmp2/Grande03.JPG
Since we were so close to home the captain decided to head back to bait receivers to net up some more of those prime anchovies. We motored back out to the albacore grounds and started Wednesday morning fishing a little further down, around 45 miles south of Point Loma. The grey light bite produced two hookups for us with one albacore caught. The albacore schools were more scattered and playing hard to get. Still managed to find a few decent schools and ended our second day on the water with around 14 bait caught fish all falling for the anchovies.
I managed only one albacore on this trip but was happy with Grande, The captain worked hard on keeping us supplied with primo bait and kept on the move finding fish for us. The chef was great and prepared some of the best boat food I’ve ever had. The deck hands were good with the gaffs and made the effort to help everyone out. The layout Of the boat is nice, it has a large Galley and the deck space is spacious allowing ample tackle storage and room to fish. The bunks are quaint but comfortable and I would recommend getting one on the side to avoid the center double rowed bunks. All in all it was a pleasant trip and I managed to get in on some decent fishing and catch up on some much needed rest.