9.23.07 Channel Islands on the Island Spirit "No Bento

[mchipncharge]

Had the privilege of fishing with k3vin_kim, FunJunkie 74, Ymin72, LA Smoker, Terry, and another Mike for the first time on the 3/4 day out of Captain Hooks. I tend to fish with Jimmy (4g63power) all the time so his posts share the same stories I have to tell. However, this being my first semi-real fishing report post I will introduce myself as Matt. Met up with the fellows at 5ish in the morning and headed to Anacapa Island with 46 on board. We started fishing by 8 or so and went through quite a bit of drifts to get close to limits of rockfish and a few extracurricular species (whitefish, sheephead, sculpin). Nothing exceptionally big to speak of but the jackpot went to a nice johnny bass. Hot ticket for the day was the gulp minnow grub in various colors and an attached strip of squid. Weather was awesome as the sea was calm, couldn't have asked for better conditions. Short report as I am tired and sure the guys have more to add (this thread is worthless without pictures wink wink). It was great meeting you guys and look forward to many more laughs and trips!

[Fisher-of-Men]

Pictures indeed are icing on the cake; but thanks for the time you gave us for this short report Matt. :wink:

Fisher-of-Men

[jplee3]

Thanks for the report! It's always fun fishing up in that area :D I'm sure the guys will post up their pics in no time ;)

[Ambassadorhawg]

Hey mchipncharge,

Fun meeting you and fishing with you yesterday! I stayed up on the bow all day and fished the iron exclusively. Wow, was it calm or what! In fact it was so calm, I was able to fish 15lb test on my plastics rod with the 4-6oz. iron in 150-200 feet the whole trip! How often do you get to do that???

Anyway, it really was a good bunch of guys considering how many people there was on board.

I took a nice limit home home which consisted of 2 reds, 1 blue, 3 starrys
and 4 chuckleheads. I also got a nicer sized rock sole, 2 sculpin, a whole mess of smaller rosy rockfish and a few honeycombs.

Steady scratch-pick all trip long.

Thanks again, Ambassadorhawg (Mike)

[one_leg]

Nice report! Congrats to you all.

Hey, I can't see the pics. :wink:

One_Leg

[Funjunkie74]

Good Morning!!
Here are the pictures from the trip.
It was really fun meeting new faces and hope that we can continue to hang out and fish!!
Matt, good job on the report!

Rising Sun...


Beaming down on Mike...what a nice smile....


Which was rude interrupted by some guy's breakfast...but WHAT COULD IT BE??


WHAT THE?!?! No trip can start without this...GRRRR


Coming up on the island....


Bob's ritual to get the bad juju off the boat...


Yep, that is a genuine SARDINE!!


How evil does he look?!?!


This is ymin's JP contender....notice something?!?!


DEEP IN THOUGHT...


DA BOYZ OF THE UNION!!


AND FOR LAUGHS....

DID YOU KNOW??
GOD was in a boy band??


You can wear thousands of dollars worth of jewelry.
You can smell like Paco Raban.
But you gotta get these boots!! On sale now!!

[one_leg]

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[jplee3]

lol... nice ghetto bootsies and backpack!

[k3vin_kim]

What's up crew~! Matt pretty much summed the trip up in his report. Here's some more pictures.

Except the part about the scandolous Jackpot winners that used the catch and switch tactics. Those MOFO's make us Koreans look bad.

[jplee3]

Crazy! There must have been some straight up major DMZ action up in there! I would have sicked em with that Sheepshead :D