Big Yellowtail biting in the Horseshoe Kelp
I've always had a favorite ocean fish to catch "Yellowtail"!!!! Yes I've fished and caught everything else, the only other fish that's even in the same ballpark to me as Yellowtail are big Albacore. This whole summer as been dedicated to fishing for Yellowtail somewhere every week. Last week it was the Coronado Islands, this week the Horseshoe Kelp on the boat Enterprise from Long Beach Marina fishing. Next week who knows, their biting from the border all the way up to the Channel Islands. What sold me on this trip is the size, all 20-30lbers.
We loaded up with all the sardines our captain could scrounge at the bait docks and supplemented are bait with some jiged up Mackerel. Off we went, the neat part is we didn't have to go very far 3-4 miles off of the San Pedro Light. Our captain was looking for sonar schools of these things in the morning. Once he found one, throw bait and fish them Tuna style. I got my first one on the slide on a Sardine. A very nice #22 lbs, oh I forgot to mention I went fishing with my friend Glen, who just got off the day before the boat Pacific Star on a 2.5 day trip to the Cortez bank. He had all kinds of stories about the Bluefin and yellowtail he caught, but every time I wanted to tease him, all's I had to do was remind him about paying $700 to go fishing. I ribbed him about this trip cost him only $50 bucks (senior rate) and didn't take him 10 hours to get there in rough seas. Well we had flurries all day where we would hook 3-8 at the same time. These fish weren't line shy so break out the heavy string. The total fish count for the trip was 39 Yellowtail landed for 32 people. We caught 4, all 20-26 lbs. I felt our numbers were a little low compared to everyone else, but that's fishing!!!!!!
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Originally Posted by TUNAVIC
