E.A.R.G.
11-03-2010, 10:47 AM
One of my church kids has been asking me to take him fishing. He went on winter break so I said lets go!!!
He said he wanted to catch one of the fish he's been seeing in my pictures (they're 20-30lb wsb and yt) and I say hey buddy lets work our way up!
So we head down to redondo sportfishing around 4:45 A.M.
We jump on the redondo special at around 7:30 and head off for some rockfishing.
Captain says we're fishing 200feet down, I look at the coffee grinder I lent him and It doesn't look like it'll do the trick.
I give this guy the real quick 101 on how to use a baitcaster and toss him my boss accurate magnum hoping he doesn't bring it back to me looking like a chia pet, or worse, losing it over the ocean. But I must say he did a fine job handling the fish!
We had live squid that the crew made last night, mixed with some large dines. We both stuck to the strip and whole live squid.
It was a gorgeous day out. Practically no winds or swells at all, and we only had to make about 5 or 6 drifts in the 4 hours of fishing since the boat was barely moving.
The captain was targetting the big reds and lings that were in the area but they had their mouths shut today, the boat brought in about 5 reds and 1 ling, but there were plently of misc rockfish down there keeping us excited.
We ended up boating close to 20 fish between the two of us including 2 nice reds in the 4lb class, a huge salmon grouper and the biggest johnny bass i've ever seen.
FUNNY thing, I asked this guy how big he thought his jonny bass was after I saw him suffering getting this sucker up 200 feet from the bottom.
He says, "I don't know... like 15 pounds?"
I tell him, more like 3-4.
And he looks shocked! Okay I'm not ready for sea bass yellowtail yet.
haha I told him just keep working on it, practice on some bat rays and you'll be good to go!
http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp304/ericchungw/148553_164465896909555_100000384382167_400660_5131 489_n.jpg
w00t for the forearm workout!
tight lines
-EARG
He said he wanted to catch one of the fish he's been seeing in my pictures (they're 20-30lb wsb and yt) and I say hey buddy lets work our way up!
So we head down to redondo sportfishing around 4:45 A.M.
We jump on the redondo special at around 7:30 and head off for some rockfishing.
Captain says we're fishing 200feet down, I look at the coffee grinder I lent him and It doesn't look like it'll do the trick.
I give this guy the real quick 101 on how to use a baitcaster and toss him my boss accurate magnum hoping he doesn't bring it back to me looking like a chia pet, or worse, losing it over the ocean. But I must say he did a fine job handling the fish!
We had live squid that the crew made last night, mixed with some large dines. We both stuck to the strip and whole live squid.
It was a gorgeous day out. Practically no winds or swells at all, and we only had to make about 5 or 6 drifts in the 4 hours of fishing since the boat was barely moving.
The captain was targetting the big reds and lings that were in the area but they had their mouths shut today, the boat brought in about 5 reds and 1 ling, but there were plently of misc rockfish down there keeping us excited.
We ended up boating close to 20 fish between the two of us including 2 nice reds in the 4lb class, a huge salmon grouper and the biggest johnny bass i've ever seen.
FUNNY thing, I asked this guy how big he thought his jonny bass was after I saw him suffering getting this sucker up 200 feet from the bottom.
He says, "I don't know... like 15 pounds?"
I tell him, more like 3-4.
And he looks shocked! Okay I'm not ready for sea bass yellowtail yet.
haha I told him just keep working on it, practice on some bat rays and you'll be good to go!
http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp304/ericchungw/148553_164465896909555_100000384382167_400660_5131 489_n.jpg
w00t for the forearm workout!
tight lines
-EARG