This is a follow up report questions I had on a old
post for family vacation up the coast.
I did not fish any piers they were either closed to
fishing or too cold.
I wanted to do a deep sea fishing trip in Santa Barbara.
The weather has been bad and the fishing has not been that good.
Most days before the trip they were not sending any boats out at all.
So my son, wife, and I, walked over from our hotel to see if they had boats
going out the next day. They said maybe, a 3/4 day boat only with 6 reservations.
So we signed up for the trip. The bad news the wife only wanted a 1/2 day boat.
The person told up the boat left at 7 am and returned probably after 6 pm.
The wife was upset, she did not want to be on the boat that long. But she went to make me happy.
The next day the boat went out with 13 people on it. They fished the whole boat
with no one within 15 ft of each other. Which was great, because the last 3 trips
I went on had at least 60 people.
The crew was great, as soon as I walked on they grabbed my poles
and tied the dropper loops and our 12 ounce weights on without asking.
They ran to help us out and gave us all the advice needed. When a fish was brought up
they grabbed are poles and said hurry go get more bait.
The weather was perfect and the fishing was better. We fished really deep 300 ft.
The bait was a live anchovy with a squid strip on it. The captain would say load, and
then tell everyone to drop. He would try to hold that spot and then move on. It
took us about 30 min to figure out and then we killed it. We caught huge reds and salmon
groupers. Some double hook ups and 90 min later the deck hand told us we caught are limits.
Ten minutes later the captain said everyone had limits and we took the long ride back. We were
off the boat at noon. The wife was so happy. But her and the son were so tired from catching
them big fish that deep they went to the hotel room and slept for 6 straight hours.
I paid 30 dollars to have fish fillet, tipped really nice and gave the
fish to people fishing the pier, since I was on vacation. Did want to try
to go again a few days later in Morro Bay, but wife said no, I had to take
her wine tasting in Paso Robles.
Fishing the boat was an awesome time we had.
