My first deep sea fishing trip. Oxnard on the boat: Cobra

[k3vin's_girl]

Hello everybody, my name is Jang. I've been reading your guys' posts for a long time now and this is my first post.:Big Grin:

My boyfriend (k3vin_kim) seems to be a regular on this website and he checks it every single day. I liked to fish a lot when i lived in Thailand and k3vin has been wanting to take me for a long time so we went over the weekend and it was really fun.

A few weeks ago, we went to Laguna Lake in Fullerton just to get the line wet. It's a very nice park and we walked around and fed the ducks.

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As far as the fishing, we caught some blue gills that were not big but it was still fun to see my boyfriend doing what he loves to do.

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After catching a few of these really small fish, i could tell that he was getting a little frustrated because he's never been freshwater fishing before... :Head Bang:

Poor guy - i know he was just trying to take me out on a fun date and it WAS a fun date. I thought I'd take the opportunity to poke a little fun at him though...

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After catching a bunch of these dinky little fish, my boyfriend looks at me and asks... "do you get seasick? Because this is NOT what i had in mind"

So the next weekend, we go to the Aquarium of the pacific in Long Beach and I got to see all kinds of beautiful fish. Sheepsheads, Yellowtails, White Seabass, Calico Bass, etc...

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And after i learned some names of the fish and what they look like, my boyfriend and i went to Channel Islands Sportfishing in Oxnard. We went on a boat called the Cobra. There were 11 other fishermen on the boat.

We left the house at 3 am and got to the dock at 4am. We left and it took a one hour boat ride to get to the spot. When we got there, it was still dark/grey outside and the water was nice and flat. There was a LOT of other boats out there.

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and there was some cool wild life to look at too. Like these Sea lions.

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We settled in where all the other boats were and i was shown how to use the fishing pole and reel.

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We fished in water about 90 to 120 feet. I used the Dropper loop technique with a strip of squid. Within about 3 minutes, i caught my VERY FIRST OCEAN FISH!!! It was a Sand dab.

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Then i dropped the hook and weight back down and caught my second fish. A Chuckle head.

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k3vin was standing right by my side the whole time coaching me and cheering me on and taking pictures most of the morning. Making sure i did everything right. Fishing is SO MUCH FUN.

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Some times the fish were REALLY REALLY heavy but he said "you can do it baby" and i kept on winding and winding.

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After a while, i started catching doubles!!

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We both caught these ugly fish called lingcods but we had to throw them back in because they weren't big enough yet.

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In the afternoon, we moved to some shallower water where there was kelp on the surface. At this spot, we caught a lot of bass. Calico bass, just like the ones we saw at the aquarium.

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My first deep sea fishing experience was fantastic and i can't wait to go again. Thank you everybody for reading and i will do another blog when we go on our next trip.

<3 Jang

[k3vin_kim]

I'm so proud of you babe. You did such an excellent job on your first trip. You're such a natural. Next, we're gonna learn how to cast and fly line fish. Barracuda are here right now.

To all the regulars on the board: I'm not just saying this but... she seriously has talent. It took her literally 30 minutes to rig up, reel in, take the fish off and re-bait all by herself.

Amazing trip.

[dkinla]

wow thanks for the awesome report! Really like your style!

and you definitely have the skills for fishing... I liked how your fish you were catching got bigger... and bigger... as your post went on :Big Grin:

looks like you two had a blast on this trip... great that there were only a few of you on the boat too!

lookin forward to more reports from ya....

[k3vin's_girl]

dkinla,

Thank you for reading! I'm still learning right now. There r so much stuff to learn. Kevin wanted to take me on a boat that was not crowded, so that would be easier for me to learn on. We didn't get into one Tangle all day. We r gonna go on a barracuda trip soon. I'll post again.

Jang

[christainmetalhead909]

looks like you guys had fun!!!! good to see my boy kevin out fishing again!!!!

[BabyKiller]

Way to go! Awesome to see Kevin fishing again. Awesome job on your first trip!

[Jackpot Jimmy]

Very nice Jang! Welcome to Fishing Network. I enjoyed reading your report.

Tell Kevin to take you out on a Tradition trip. You'll enjoy fishing out on the water with Morgon and Steven.