fishinone
12-30-2013, 12:49 PM
I fished on Saturday morning with Wes and Sean. These guys are newbs.
The first thing that happened on the day was that I put my warranty replacement fish finder in and got nothing when I tried to turn it on. I tried my other battery and still nothing. (I found out this morning that my batteries were low. I forgot to put the charger and left something on, I guess. The engine started well and everything else worked but the fish finder seems to need at least 11.5 volts. Now it's working.-)
We set up at Necktie Canyon inside of DMS and Striper Mike. Striper Mike doesn't post he just catches fish.
Wes and Sean hadn't striper fished before and were having a hard time at first. It was lucky we weren't playing baseball because in fishing, swings are free.
I think that Sean might have had the flu or something and wasn't seeing the hits. He finally just laid down in the bow and took a nap.
Wes on the other hand was doing a great job of feeding the fish while I missed some and landed some. After a while he asked me how to go about hooking them. I went through the current bite, let them go a few feet giving them slack then set the hook like you were trying to rip their lips off hooking technique with him one more time, now that I had his attention. After that he started catching very well!
The other boats out a little deeper than us, were catching fewer fish than us but they were larger.
We pulled up stakes around 1:00pm and headed in. I was disappointed that Sean hadn't caught a fish but Wes had to go to work and Sean was sick, so heading in was reasonable.
http://i454.photobucket.com/albums/qq265/fishinone/Castaic%2012-29-2013/20131228_130259_zps22f5b5e2.jpg (http://s454.photobucket.com/user/fishinone/media/Castaic%2012-29-2013/20131228_130259_zps22f5b5e2.jpg.html)
Here's Wes with a couple of our nicer ones.
http://i454.photobucket.com/albums/qq265/fishinone/Castaic%2012-29-2013/20131228_130144_zps9f13a63e.jpg (http://s454.photobucket.com/user/fishinone/media/Castaic%2012-29-2013/20131228_130144_zps9f13a63e.jpg.html)
We kept 17.
Wes threw back 1 little one, I threw back at least 3 little ones.
Not too bad for half a day!
The first thing that happened on the day was that I put my warranty replacement fish finder in and got nothing when I tried to turn it on. I tried my other battery and still nothing. (I found out this morning that my batteries were low. I forgot to put the charger and left something on, I guess. The engine started well and everything else worked but the fish finder seems to need at least 11.5 volts. Now it's working.-)
We set up at Necktie Canyon inside of DMS and Striper Mike. Striper Mike doesn't post he just catches fish.
Wes and Sean hadn't striper fished before and were having a hard time at first. It was lucky we weren't playing baseball because in fishing, swings are free.
I think that Sean might have had the flu or something and wasn't seeing the hits. He finally just laid down in the bow and took a nap.
Wes on the other hand was doing a great job of feeding the fish while I missed some and landed some. After a while he asked me how to go about hooking them. I went through the current bite, let them go a few feet giving them slack then set the hook like you were trying to rip their lips off hooking technique with him one more time, now that I had his attention. After that he started catching very well!
The other boats out a little deeper than us, were catching fewer fish than us but they were larger.
We pulled up stakes around 1:00pm and headed in. I was disappointed that Sean hadn't caught a fish but Wes had to go to work and Sean was sick, so heading in was reasonable.
http://i454.photobucket.com/albums/qq265/fishinone/Castaic%2012-29-2013/20131228_130259_zps22f5b5e2.jpg (http://s454.photobucket.com/user/fishinone/media/Castaic%2012-29-2013/20131228_130259_zps22f5b5e2.jpg.html)
Here's Wes with a couple of our nicer ones.
http://i454.photobucket.com/albums/qq265/fishinone/Castaic%2012-29-2013/20131228_130144_zps9f13a63e.jpg (http://s454.photobucket.com/user/fishinone/media/Castaic%2012-29-2013/20131228_130144_zps9f13a63e.jpg.html)
We kept 17.
Wes threw back 1 little one, I threw back at least 3 little ones.
Not too bad for half a day!