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gman90706
08-01-2007, 03:44 PM
Hey all. Left around 1am from LB - smooth ride over to the island. Picked up a bit of small-med sized chovies at LA Bait, but half of 'em croaked on the way over as usual with my rig. 'Bout an hour and a half ride in fairly smooth seas though. Hung out around Long Point 'til dawn - a few small calico's but nothing special.

Dawn'ish - head to Avalon, pick up some live squid and begin working around the east end. Started with plastics around Church Rock - landed quite a few calico's, then started flylining live squid and it was wide open nearly every cast a fish. A lot of shorts, kept a few of the bigger ones.

Worked a ton of kelp beds through to China point. All pretty much calico's, no YellowTail sighted ... fished a lot from shore to ~100ft or so. Landed one WSB on live squid dropper loop, but it ended up short :( Then headed to Farnsworth bank for a little sculpin slaughter.

All in all a great day out there, great weather, smooth seas and definitely was nice to be out on a weekday with only a few other boats around all day long.

Baseballer44
08-01-2007, 03:55 PM
Thanks for the report. Way to slaughter 'em!

Ambassadorhawg
08-01-2007, 04:41 PM
Nice Lipstick Bass you have there in your catch!

gman90706
08-01-2007, 04:50 PM
Nice Lipstick Bass you have there in your catch!
Thanks...guess you're talkin' about the treefish? didn't know about the term lipstick bass -- makes sense :P . Are these common? First time I've caught one..

Ambassadorhawg
08-01-2007, 04:52 PM
Yes, they are fairly common. You won't catch alot of them but you see them often enough. My buddy caught 3 the other day!

Baseballer44
08-01-2007, 06:17 PM
Ok, that double post made no sense.

ghetto dad
08-01-2007, 07:34 PM
great job man!! thanks for the report!!

BaitBrain
08-01-2007, 07:47 PM
good looking catch! great report!

Rich and Noah
08-02-2007, 08:44 AM
Great job G-man!!!

Too bad the yellows were asleep or absent. Nice water conditions. :lol:

JapanRon
08-02-2007, 08:14 PM
Hi gman90706,

Great report and fun pics.

Appreciate the detail,

JapanRon

Wingnut
08-03-2007, 03:09 PM
Fun times, nice pics, thanks for the report!

Greg Madrigal
08-04-2007, 05:56 PM
Nice report. Looks like a great time. Thank you for reporting and all the great pics.

GM