6/20/2007 Southern California LBC
Me, the buddy Oz and my lil bro headed out on the morning boat out of LBC "Southern California" Ryan was the captain, Ryan was the deckhand and Big Ed was in the Galley.
Me & Oz
Lil Bro and Me
Anxiety set in, headed out of the dock to the bait barge (these anchovies were ridiculously small but it got them biting.). Got a nice load of scoops and headed to our spot. Lines wet at 8:00 am and WFO !!!! on the cuda ..... Once the jigs hit the water, HOOK UP!!!!!! and of course I was not prepared for the cuda run .....
Setup (Which I now know, I need to spend a little money to get a nice setup)
Abu Garcia 5000 reel
Izorline XXX #15
Hayabusa circle hooks 1/0 & 2/0
Live bait
I got slammed every time I hit the water (about 10 hook ups but only managed 3 due to either coming unhooked or losing the hook entirely. Or the damn reel malfunctioning or getting tangled in someone else’s line. ARGH, very frustrating !!!!!! Everyone else was using jigs, but, I'm not familiar on how to fish these so I just went with the live bait. (any tips on a setup would be great)
Had the torpedo 2 oz. weight then about 1’ leaded and my circle hook.
It was my lil bro’s 2nd time fishing on a boat, last time I took him out, we got the fat skunk and he was bummed, this time I wanted him to get on some fish. My fault, I should have been better prepared because he hooked up on about 6 cuda’s but same as me, either came unhooked, or lost the hook itself.
Bite slowed down around 10:00 so we headed out to some flat ground for some bass and maybe sculpin. It was dead, my lil bro did manage to catch 2 mackerel, so the skunk was off.
All in all, it was a great time, my lil bro got on some fish and I think he may have the bug now !!!!
My only complaint:
We were in the back of the boat, once we hit our spot and lines got wet and the bite went WFO !!! It was like a mad dash to the back and these guys were just pushing their way in, hence the lines getting tangled, it was really pissing me off, especially when we checked in, they assigned us numbers. But I was like whatever.
Big Ed hooked it up on the way back, greatest double cheeseburger ever!!!! (prolly cuz we were hungry)
It was a great time, great crew and boat, definitely recommend and will go out again. Great way to come back to wetting my line.
P.S TEAM 57 was flying high and mighty
My 3 Cuda'z
My Big Daddy Cuda
Oz and his 2 cuda'z
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