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Out and about -- Fishing 8/20/16
I grew up fishing fresh water -- and predominately still do so. But, on occasioin, I do take my boat "Trout Sniffer" out to the big blue... Yesterday was one of those days (I do love it... it still has that sense of adventure for me).
Since I really have no real clue of where to go on my own, I did like most folks -- bought one of those fish-n-maps. My wife and I launched out of Davies at 6am, got a scoop of sardines (what a line!) and punched in the coordinates for jewfish rocks -- since I had no freakin clue where else to go -- just a random spot.
Anyway, my big convince to get my wife out with me was that the swell report has 1' at 14 second intervals -- too bad the wind forgot to stay home... it wasn't too much of a pound to get out there. I metered around until I found the rocks on the bottom, but there was absolutely zero sign of baitfish or game fish anywhere in the water column. Tried a few of the piles around there, no luck.
Few trips back my brother in law and I tried our luck at Bolsa Chica artificial reef. Decided to rip over there. Anchored up upwind of one of the reefs and started flylining 'dines. WHAMMO!
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Decent sized 'cuda... wasn't expecting that! I have caught a bunch of different ocean species, but never a 'cuda! (One time on a cattle boat I actually caught a sea slug!)
I pulled in another 2 tiny ones (man they are slimy) and my wife caught 1. Then they disappeared -- probably because of the sea dog that showed up...
Decided to try to put some lead on the line to see what lurked below, since the meter was showing a fair bit of activity near the bottom...
Hello mrs. sheephead
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Draggin the bottom brought up 3 or 4 little calico, but that was it. By 11:30 the wind was whipping and I knew it would be a rough pound back to the ramp, so we called it.
All in all fun for me...
Matt
