July '06 Avet Reel Contest

[Jason]

Avet is supplying Bloodydecks 1 reel a month to give away.

This Month's Avet Reel is a Silver LX



Rules of the contest...
Post pictures of a fish you caught this month After (7-1-06) using an Avet reel.

The reel has to be in the picture!!!!!!
Ali and I are the judges. We have final say.

NO PHOTO TOUCH UP!

Format of posting your picture.

Picture on top that is hosted by bloodydecks in our gallery.
Name:
Location of fish caught:
Gear used:
Date:
Give us a little fishing report with it! Sarkis and Harry love to read the stories...

We may revise the rules as we go.
All pictures become property of Bloodydecks.LLC and Avet Reels to be used in promotional ads or artwork. Submitted photo must be of a member of Bloodydecks.com. Winners may not enter again within 6 months of last winning.
DO NOT POST COPYRIGHTED PICTURES.
Start fishing.

[Babu]

Dave 7/2
25&22 lb. Yellowtail
425
MXL 20# mono 30#floro

[Afry]

Location: Near the 238 @ 31.30/117.15

Gear used: Avet Blue SX, Blue Seeker Inshore II 658, 20lb P-Line blue, 1/0 Owner ringed circle hook, 6' Mac nose hooked

Date: 7/4/06

GF and I left Coral at 6:30 with the macs made at the slip heading for the warm water 40 miles out. 68 or less till 238 @ 31.30/117.15 we start to find paddies and temp is climbing to 69.5.

Made two drifts on a large paddy for nada and were about to move on when I dropped a blue/silver butterfly jig deep and all hell broke loose. Yellowtail were on the chew boiling around the boat and bait was now working as well. The BF jig was outfishing the bait 3/1, Yellowtail's were 8 - 15lbers so we C&R'd keeping a few larger ones.

After 45 min of this we moved on and found another large paddy 1/2 mile away with schools of Yellowtail under it. We had fun for 2 hours. Nothing over 18 lbs but good C&R on the smaller ones. While resetting for another drift I slow trolled the bait stick and felt a hit while running the lower controls as I turned around we see this Dorado jumping and doing the tail walk across our stern...WAHOOOOO! He only went 12lbs (in 69.5 water) but hey, it made my day.

[leucadian]

Name: Scott
Location: Out of Oceanside near the 181
Gear: Avet MXL on Calstar WC rod w/ 30 lb. P-Line
Date: July 5, 2006

We were paddy hopping and it was pretty wide open on Yellowtail and I kept on getting broken off on my Japanese reel. So I switched to my brand new MXL 6.1 that my kids got me for Father's Day! Started putting them on the boat! First time out with it, and now it's my lucky reel. Thanks kids. BTW, that color combination of Blue AVET and Gold/Teal Calstar is PIMP.

[megustafish5]

name:Spencer Robertson
Location:90 miles sw of Point loma on 2 day
Gear:Avet lx w/tiburon e-glass rod 40lb ande
Date:7/11/06
Report:fished a 2 day on the relentless stopped on a decent paddie and pulled of this yellow

[fish_whisperer]

Name: Kristina Wagen

Location: off coast of Cedros Islands (approx 220 miles out of Point Loma) caught on a 5 day trip on the American Angler (7/9-7/14).

Gear Used: Purple MXL 2speed with 35 lb Clear P-Line; 7ft Calstar GF765XL 20/50 Wrapped custom for me by Mike Bernard @ M&N Custom Fishing Rods in Bakersfield Ca.

Date: fish caught 7/11/2006

Fishing Report: We just made a nice long run of patty stops on the way down to Cedros the day before. Ended up there a little behind what we had planned. woke up at 6:30 to breakfast and a nice mixed bite at the island. i had been using my rig of choice, the MXL 2speed and the 20/50 Calstar, flylining anchovies in the am. I took the advice of the great crew and used a greenback mackeral, and got a huge hit by this fish. well as you see much to everyones excitement especially mine, i caught this 37lb yellowtail. the guys on the trip were great and i have to give much of the credit to them as i learned so much on that trip.

*just a funny update since posting this picture. i went on this trip with my husband and best buddy Randy. he works as a firefighter with the u.s. forest service. if you know much about the organization, probably the least paid firefighters anywhere, that love their job around. no joke. so, since being back from that great trip, (other pics from the trip are in the gallery under "nicetail"), i printed the pic's out for him to take to work to show the guys. now all the guys have been giving him sh*t, saying that his wife outfished him. it is true i caught more fish, and hauled in alot bigger fish than he did. but it is not about that, it is about the fun of doing something we both enjoy together. he enjoys a friendly rivalry or competition just as i do. but we both had fun, i learned alot, and both felt pride in what we acomplished during the trip. besides, let's face it, if he had caught as many fish at the same size as i had, our fish processing bill would be twice as much, and were already broke from this trip!!! Competition is great, just have fun in whatever you do!

[dansan]

name: Daniel Sanchez

location: approx 10 mi out from Punta Arena near Hotel Punta Colorada, Baja East Cape

gear: Avet mxj 25# clear p-line and Daiwa Salita 8020J

date: 7/16/06

short report: last of five days at East Cape went out for half day, found porpoise school and some tough, hungry yellowfin 30-40lbs.

[The Fish Seeker]

295 Bank

Avet EX5/0, Avet EXW 4/02, Avet MXJ 6/3, Avet SX

7 yellowtail to 25 pounds and 1 Albacore 30 pounds

7/20/06

Awesome Avet Fishing, Hooked and landed fish with all Avet sizes on the boat, (Kev only let me bring three of mine along so I didn't get to go for the cycle) I was so tired of reeling In fish, I jist lied down to relax and was buried by all the AVET caught fish!!!!

[longranger]

Michael Blumenfeld
58# bluefin caught on the Independence 7/5/06. Trip dates 7/4-7/9.
Offshore 150 miles south of San Diego
Used an MXL 6/4 on a grafighter 850M.
Line test 30# with a short 30# fluoro leader.
Fish ate a flylined sardine that was butt hooked

This was the first fish I hooked on this rod and reel. It was truly a shock for me when the tuna came to gaff. Judging by the fight I assumed this was a 20# class fish. This setup caught several more tuna of similar size to this one and about 5 Yellowtail to 30# without breaking a sweat. This is now my favorite setup for fish in this size range.

[bayfisher86]

hard to see the reel but the bluefin kicks ass, all lit up its sweet, belongs in an ad lol nice fish

[NickyBaby]

Right now its between Mike and Kristina

[The Fish Seeker]

Hidden Bank area

Avet MXJ 6/3, Avet SX5.1

Two Dorado kept, Many released - 3 #25+ yellowtail

7/26/06

Dreams come true, AVET, how could you ask for anything more.