fishinone
01-06-2014, 01:47 PM
I fished on Saturday with RadioLeo and Striper Mike.
The first thing that I learned was that my replacement fish finder wasn't working. It worked fine on Tuesday but drew the voltage down to 8.5 volts while it was on. After charging for a few days it wouldn't even turn the fishfinder on.
So we set up in Necktie Canyon and fished blind. The spot we were on produced well on Tuesday but we could beg for a bite for the first hour. Finally Mike got a good hit. The rod tip just slammed down into the water and it was on. He was using light line and this fish was traveling, so Leo and I clear poles. We didn't want to blow this one chance!
Mike played the fish skillfully and soon a 5 pounder hit the deck.
http://i454.photobucket.com/albums/qq265/fishinone/Casaic%20Bait%20n%20Wait%201-4-2014/20140104_082141_zpsbfb5544a.jpg (http://s454.photobucket.com/user/fishinone/media/Casaic%20Bait%20n%20Wait%201-4-2014/20140104_082141_zpsbfb5544a.jpg.html)
The skunk was off for Mike anyway!
After that one fish it was back to Bait-n-Wait!
Peple started showing up but the boats weren't catching much. Three guys came in a rental boat and set up on shore inside of us and started slaying on bloodworms. We threw nightcrawlers to the same areas they were fishing but they didn't produce for us.
Not having my fish fishfinder was getting on my nerves, so I proposed going to the ramp, removing the front battery and going to town to get one, combined with a stop to buy some bloodworms, while the guys fished swimbaits around the ramp. It was a plan! We did it. I picked up the battery and stopped at Gallion's Market to get bloodworms and lugworms.
The fishfinder worked and we had the bait that we had seen working earlier!
We decided to fish a new spot that I had tried for the first time on Tuesday for not a single hit. On Tuesday there were lots of fish holding in the area but they would just swim up to the baits and watch them. I could see them respond to the bait on the fish finder but they wouldn't take the baits.
We set the anchors and put out four different kinds of bait, sardine, bloodworm, lugworm and nightcrawler. In just a few minutes we had hits on everything and landed three fish. Not a bad sign! Then we started a slow pick on fish ranging from 1 1/2 lb to 4 1/2 lb. Mike got the 4 1/2 lb fish to back up his 5 pounder.
I got a three pounder and remembered that I had promised to name a fish after fishbones.
http://i454.photobucket.com/albums/qq265/fishinone/Casaic%20Bait%20n%20Wait%201-4-2014/20140104_121346_zps0ca4096b.jpg (http://s454.photobucket.com/user/fishinone/media/Casaic%20Bait%20n%20Wait%201-4-2014/20140104_121346_zps0ca4096b.jpg.html)
This is Alex! He's fish bones now though!
There was an interesting thing happening over and over. Leo would get a hit and having trouble getting the rod out of the holder he would swing for the sky, only to miss the fish. Then immediately one of Mikes poles would get hit and he would nail the fish! Poor Leo took an awful ribbing!
We had about a dozen fish in the boat by 2:45 or so when we decided to slide out a little deeper, where we had seen a big cloud of fish as we set anchor. The cloud was gone but no sooner did our baits hit the bottom and it was on. We got hit all the way around the boat, all the poles in about a minute!
The few bigger fish of the day all hit Sardines. Most of the other fish were caught on worms. In this spot they didn't seem to have a preference for worm type.
After that it was like a fire drill! We were each fishing 2 poles and we couldn't get one in without the other being hit. We had multiple doubles. I'm sure there were times when we were all hooked up. Mike managed to hook 2 fish at once. I grabbed the pole and handed it to Leo and he gave Mike a hand reeling in one of them. I didn't want the fish sweeping up all of the other poles.
In no time we were sorting fish. I went through the fish hold and threw back all the small ones that were still conscious. We finished out our limits as the bite slowly dwindled down then headed in. I think that we pulled it up at 3:40.
We stopped at Gallion's Market and took a deck photo.
http://i454.photobucket.com/albums/qq265/fishinone/Casaic%20Bait%20n%20Wait%201-4-2014/20140104_162221_zps46694f4d.jpg (http://s454.photobucket.com/user/fishinone/media/Casaic%20Bait%20n%20Wait%201-4-2014/20140104_162221_zps46694f4d.jpg.html)
Here's the days take.
http://i454.photobucket.com/albums/qq265/fishinone/Casaic%20Bait%20n%20Wait%201-4-2014/IMG_9477_zpsed33515c.jpg (http://s454.photobucket.com/user/fishinone/media/Casaic%20Bait%20n%20Wait%201-4-2014/IMG_9477_zpsed33515c.jpg.html)
This is what happens if you long arm your fish standing next to a guy who has bigger fish. Mikes fish are really much bigger than mine.
We estimated that we actually caught nearly 50 fish.
That last hour surely made this into stellar day!
The first thing that I learned was that my replacement fish finder wasn't working. It worked fine on Tuesday but drew the voltage down to 8.5 volts while it was on. After charging for a few days it wouldn't even turn the fishfinder on.
So we set up in Necktie Canyon and fished blind. The spot we were on produced well on Tuesday but we could beg for a bite for the first hour. Finally Mike got a good hit. The rod tip just slammed down into the water and it was on. He was using light line and this fish was traveling, so Leo and I clear poles. We didn't want to blow this one chance!
Mike played the fish skillfully and soon a 5 pounder hit the deck.
http://i454.photobucket.com/albums/qq265/fishinone/Casaic%20Bait%20n%20Wait%201-4-2014/20140104_082141_zpsbfb5544a.jpg (http://s454.photobucket.com/user/fishinone/media/Casaic%20Bait%20n%20Wait%201-4-2014/20140104_082141_zpsbfb5544a.jpg.html)
The skunk was off for Mike anyway!
After that one fish it was back to Bait-n-Wait!
Peple started showing up but the boats weren't catching much. Three guys came in a rental boat and set up on shore inside of us and started slaying on bloodworms. We threw nightcrawlers to the same areas they were fishing but they didn't produce for us.
Not having my fish fishfinder was getting on my nerves, so I proposed going to the ramp, removing the front battery and going to town to get one, combined with a stop to buy some bloodworms, while the guys fished swimbaits around the ramp. It was a plan! We did it. I picked up the battery and stopped at Gallion's Market to get bloodworms and lugworms.
The fishfinder worked and we had the bait that we had seen working earlier!
We decided to fish a new spot that I had tried for the first time on Tuesday for not a single hit. On Tuesday there were lots of fish holding in the area but they would just swim up to the baits and watch them. I could see them respond to the bait on the fish finder but they wouldn't take the baits.
We set the anchors and put out four different kinds of bait, sardine, bloodworm, lugworm and nightcrawler. In just a few minutes we had hits on everything and landed three fish. Not a bad sign! Then we started a slow pick on fish ranging from 1 1/2 lb to 4 1/2 lb. Mike got the 4 1/2 lb fish to back up his 5 pounder.
I got a three pounder and remembered that I had promised to name a fish after fishbones.
http://i454.photobucket.com/albums/qq265/fishinone/Casaic%20Bait%20n%20Wait%201-4-2014/20140104_121346_zps0ca4096b.jpg (http://s454.photobucket.com/user/fishinone/media/Casaic%20Bait%20n%20Wait%201-4-2014/20140104_121346_zps0ca4096b.jpg.html)
This is Alex! He's fish bones now though!
There was an interesting thing happening over and over. Leo would get a hit and having trouble getting the rod out of the holder he would swing for the sky, only to miss the fish. Then immediately one of Mikes poles would get hit and he would nail the fish! Poor Leo took an awful ribbing!
We had about a dozen fish in the boat by 2:45 or so when we decided to slide out a little deeper, where we had seen a big cloud of fish as we set anchor. The cloud was gone but no sooner did our baits hit the bottom and it was on. We got hit all the way around the boat, all the poles in about a minute!
The few bigger fish of the day all hit Sardines. Most of the other fish were caught on worms. In this spot they didn't seem to have a preference for worm type.
After that it was like a fire drill! We were each fishing 2 poles and we couldn't get one in without the other being hit. We had multiple doubles. I'm sure there were times when we were all hooked up. Mike managed to hook 2 fish at once. I grabbed the pole and handed it to Leo and he gave Mike a hand reeling in one of them. I didn't want the fish sweeping up all of the other poles.
In no time we were sorting fish. I went through the fish hold and threw back all the small ones that were still conscious. We finished out our limits as the bite slowly dwindled down then headed in. I think that we pulled it up at 3:40.
We stopped at Gallion's Market and took a deck photo.
http://i454.photobucket.com/albums/qq265/fishinone/Casaic%20Bait%20n%20Wait%201-4-2014/20140104_162221_zps46694f4d.jpg (http://s454.photobucket.com/user/fishinone/media/Casaic%20Bait%20n%20Wait%201-4-2014/20140104_162221_zps46694f4d.jpg.html)
Here's the days take.
http://i454.photobucket.com/albums/qq265/fishinone/Casaic%20Bait%20n%20Wait%201-4-2014/IMG_9477_zpsed33515c.jpg (http://s454.photobucket.com/user/fishinone/media/Casaic%20Bait%20n%20Wait%201-4-2014/IMG_9477_zpsed33515c.jpg.html)
This is what happens if you long arm your fish standing next to a guy who has bigger fish. Mikes fish are really much bigger than mine.
We estimated that we actually caught nearly 50 fish.
That last hour surely made this into stellar day!