Seatech
08-26-2007, 08:38 PM
Woke up Saturday morning at 3:30am and started loading the boat for a trip to Clemente. Walk out the door and there is already a "noticable" west wind blowing. I'm thinking, this is not a good sign :shock:
Met EJ and Tom at Davies to buddy boay and we go outside the harbor. Not too much wind and after a pretty flat ride to the East End of Cat off to Clemente. Really nice ride all the way over.
Jeff and I pull into a spot around the backside and 2nd cast I hang a 6lb fish and Jeff get's a nice 4lb+ fish. We work this one rock for about an hour and end up with 20+ fish, most in the 3-6lb range. Got em on iron and #5 Pearl Swimbaits.
Jeff with a colorful model
http://www.senortuna.com/pics/data/500/DSC_0151.JPG
http://www.senortuna.com/pics/data/500/DSC_0152.JPG
Had a big 8lb fish blow up on a jig and miss, did the drop back and he hit and missed a 2nd time...
Eric & Tom joined us and we moved back around the East End and had a slow pick inside and then moved to some of the out kelps, and for another 60 minutes, it was pretty wide open with bass busting bait in the kelp matts and stringers. At one point I had 6 fish on 6 casts.
Got 'em on Sluggos, Pearls and 5" Mission Fish swimbaits.
Had another HUGE fish come up next to the boat and try to eat a swimbait out of a hooked fish's mouth. The larger model actually bit the bait in 1/2 and swam off with it's reward.
Worked our way towards Pyramid and got a few more nice fish on the iron
http://www.senortuna.com/pics/data/500/DSC_0156.JPG
By 2pm the wind was howling, maybe we should have left at noon like we talked about :lol: :lol: :lol:
4 hours to get back to Alamitos, just BRUTAL!!!!!
The swells were so tight that we literally missed running INTO and over a marlin by about 5 feet on the return trip home. Haven't seen a tail walk like that in some time!
Good times either way!!!
Ed
Met EJ and Tom at Davies to buddy boay and we go outside the harbor. Not too much wind and after a pretty flat ride to the East End of Cat off to Clemente. Really nice ride all the way over.
Jeff and I pull into a spot around the backside and 2nd cast I hang a 6lb fish and Jeff get's a nice 4lb+ fish. We work this one rock for about an hour and end up with 20+ fish, most in the 3-6lb range. Got em on iron and #5 Pearl Swimbaits.
Jeff with a colorful model
http://www.senortuna.com/pics/data/500/DSC_0151.JPG
http://www.senortuna.com/pics/data/500/DSC_0152.JPG
Had a big 8lb fish blow up on a jig and miss, did the drop back and he hit and missed a 2nd time...
Eric & Tom joined us and we moved back around the East End and had a slow pick inside and then moved to some of the out kelps, and for another 60 minutes, it was pretty wide open with bass busting bait in the kelp matts and stringers. At one point I had 6 fish on 6 casts.
Got 'em on Sluggos, Pearls and 5" Mission Fish swimbaits.
Had another HUGE fish come up next to the boat and try to eat a swimbait out of a hooked fish's mouth. The larger model actually bit the bait in 1/2 and swam off with it's reward.
Worked our way towards Pyramid and got a few more nice fish on the iron
http://www.senortuna.com/pics/data/500/DSC_0156.JPG
By 2pm the wind was howling, maybe we should have left at noon like we talked about :lol: :lol: :lol:
4 hours to get back to Alamitos, just BRUTAL!!!!!
The swells were so tight that we literally missed running INTO and over a marlin by about 5 feet on the return trip home. Haven't seen a tail walk like that in some time!
Good times either way!!!
Ed