Hey guys,
Beautiful Day, Good Friends, Upbeat Crew, and Fish Tacos!
Rode Pierpoint Landing’s ¾-day local moo-moo
Victory yesterday … Friday. Mike, the regular skipper, ran the boat while our top-gun deck Jason worked the deck and Ron ‘the Big Griller’, worked his usual galley magic and made things all homey. Can’t wait for the Harley-Davidson curtains!!
Fished both a little outside and a little inside Horseshoe Kelp. 13 of us had the 90-angler boat to ourselves!
Target Fish: Calico, Sandbass, Perch, and Halibut Action Short Report- Friday 02/02
Today: 13 anglers caught 6 Calico, 20 Sandbass, 40 Perch, and 1 Sculpin. The rest of the story was catching
and releasing some nice sized Sheephead, big Whitefish (growing even fatter), a baby Black Sea Bass, a Leopard Shark, the usual short bass and Sculpin, and a variety of rockfish…… especially Treefish!
(Please widen your view to fit monitor if word-wrap looks off) Friday 02/02 Jackpot Winner! 
A Halibut Wins
Yep ….. a Halibut won it!! Even though the fish in the photo may appear small to some, THAT Halibut is ¾ of an inch
over the 22 inch minimum! No other fish came close to it’s weight.
More fishy photos for your edification in the gallery Fishing Area Shoving Off Nice Colors!! 
Marking Time
Got the usual speech at the dock on safety. Shoving off, for the days plan, we were told we needed to hang out a bit to hookup with a bait-boat for some fresh dead! Duh …. No brainer …. Everyone’s happy with that decision! To mark time, we headed towards the San Pedro area where …… the marine fuel docks and some of the commercial fish processing companies reside.
Visiting San Pedro from the Water San Pedro’s Cannery Row? 
Topping Off Quaint Fuel Dock …………… Friendly Doggie! 
Taking the Tour
Arriving at the Cabrillio area of San Pedro, we passed the familiar sight of a kind of Cannery Row and a couple of fuel docks came into view. Looks like one of those giant cruise ships dock around there too.
Didn’t take long to top off the fuel tanks for the weekend but I still made use of the time by throwing a swimbait in and around the floating docks/slips. Not a single bite!
Squirters Nice Squid Outfit …………...Couple of These! 
Taking the Tour
On the way to the breakwater we hooked up with our little Squid boat and proceeded to load a couple of buckets of good looking fresh, fresh-dead Squid. This seems to be the ticket recently …. even above the live Squid!
The Days Fishing Picking Our Spots …………………………..............Current Events! 
To Our Home Grounds!! 
Lobster Traps Everywhere!
With some primo bait and beautiful weather/water conditions, it looked like everything was going our way. Now if only the fishys would cooperate! Ahh but there’s no suspense as you’ve already read the fish count!
Moo-moo Pasture Fellow Moo-moo 
PBer Rigs Nice ………………………………....Nice Rigs ………………............ Anglers! 
Out to Pasture
Saw a number of moo-moos grazing yesterday in the SMB to LB/SP pasture although most of them were so far away as to be impossible to identify.
The Fishing 2 Rounds Round 1 We went a little outside for the first part of the day. Surprisingly …. we hit a couple of very shallow spots (80~90 feet guesstimate) and with a hard bottom to boot! Very first drop got us a few fish and the Perch were nibbling as a good sign. Fished quite a while but alas the bite didn’t develop as hoped. Time and time again, we would meter an absolute pyramid of bait and fish in the water column but a bite wouldn’t develop.
Didn’t catch many shorts today compared to last week. I’m sure the birdies were disappointed. Variety of species caught was fun but most of them were not the keeping kind. Lots of Whitefish
Most fished either dropper-loop rigs w/cut squid or sliding-egg sinker (Carolina) rigs w/whole Squid. Leadhead Squid did depending on structure we were fishing and if the Perch were thick. The current was very weak the first half of the day so most used between 2~4ozs of weight ….. torpedo or sliding egg.
One area we hit just right and we were right on a rock and kind of in the middle of a surrounding reef. Although excellent boat positioning … we still weren’t able to pull a substantial amount of fish off the spot.
Conditions: 56~59º degree water. Downhill current was less than a knot with wind and swell direction westerly. Swell and waves were less than 2 feet at 12~15 seconds. Water clarity was 15 feet in some places. Air temp was in the in the 60º’s. Wind was hardly noticeable at 5~6mph max throughout the day!
Round 2 After coming further inside, more than moving around, we pretty much stayed in the same general area but hit a number of different bottom structure and depths. Most guys fished whole Squid today, thus a majority were using either a 20z sliding egg sinker Carolina style or a similar weight leadhead. Of course dropper loop rigs caught their share of the fish too. Line didn’t seem to be an issue on bites but the heavier line was preferred as we were in structure a good part of the time.
As we had fished a little outside for the first half of the day, we were now concentrating on spots a little closer to shore. Fishing was scratchy, as expected, but most of the anglers fished really hard for steady if not short bites. Mike seems to be willing to hang a little longer even when things are tough. On occasion, I would have said let’s throw in the towel an hour earlier!
Conditions: Conditions couldn’t be nicer. Weather was sunny and Winter-warm and the water was cold but in nice condition with a slight current and good visibility. Afternoon weather came in and it got colder and the wind and waves picked seemingly encouraging us to head for home!
Gallery The Fish – Calicos, Sandbass, and Others Beauty 
Anglers and Their Fish A Few Pics Nice Fish!………..Nice Bass ……………Halibut …………………...........Jason & JP 
Nice Haul! …………………..........Backwater ……………...........Got Em ……………...................My Corner 
Let Them Know
The photos above are just a sample of the fish and things of interest, at least to me, on this week’s trip.
Note: If you see a friend in the pictures, let them know they can copy the photo off the report, save, edit, and print it at their leisure. Plastics Threw Them All Day
All I can say is I tried just about everything in the book both with and without Squid strips. Didn’t get skunked but pretty close to it! Nuff said.
Tweeking Plastics #23
Next Installment in my 02/07 Wednesday Report
Friday’s Out There Lunar ……………………………………..Wind Direction & Speed! 
Tides ……………………………….................................Water Temps! 
Friday’s Conditions Fishing Grounds: The air-temperature might have been in the 30’s, 40’s, 50’s then the low 60º’s but the wind made it so that we all wore our heaviest jackets, beanies, hats, what-ever’s. Rain let up once we got out a bit on the water.
Seems like it’s always nicer once you get out past the near-on shore band of weather BUT that was not to be today for the morning. Fished under overcast skies most of the day. Said it all in the fishing report.
Wild Creatures: 1 Sealion visited us. Only the hardiest Seagulls, Cormorants, and Pelicans were hanging out around the boat.
Asides An Aside: I am becoming increasingly unhappy with the durability of my 4- legged/tentacle plastics. The plastic is so soft that they can get easily nipped off by pesky Perch and or broken/torn off by sneezing too hard.
Does anyone have a home remedy for toughing up these plastics? I’m not joking … there very well could be a way. Though effective, I’m not paying for a plastic that doesn’t stay intact past a mere 5 or 6 hits!!
Another Aside: ] Interestingly, we actually had a school of Barracuda hanging out for a while somewhere along the water column near us but there were no biters. I fished hard for them but no dice!
Yet Another Aside: The Victory will be going off-line for a few weeks starting next week. If you want to get one last trip in before she goes in for refurbishing, you might want to call the landing to find out the last day she will be running. From what I understand, the Southern Cal will be back on-line for its usual half-day duties thus relieving the Tradition which will then be doing ¾-day duties until the Victory returns on-line. Nice to have all three of these boats all spic and span!
Useful Information Stern Shots
I have posted the stern rail numbers and the color sections in the past. In subsequent reports on this boat, I will not post the graphics again but have you refer to the report for the 11/22 trip for the visual reference. The Victory’s 5 color sections (red, green, yellow, blue, and white) each have 18 numbers going clock-wise 1 to18.
The Victory Mike file photo .................
Jason! file photo ............
Ron! file photo 
Trip’s End
Today, the skipper, crew, a few club members, and others anglers had a nice, typical Winter’s day fishing locally. Up-beat fellow anglers and interesting fishing made the trip good fun. We were off the boat by 4:30 and I was home in half an hour.
tsurikichi
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