Isn't life great, especially for Southern California anglers, considering we can "just about" fish 52 weeks out of the year. Got to love that, in a big kind of way, if your as addicted to fishing as I am.
Got lucky enough to fish 4 times this week which added up to a whopping total of 72 times of fishing/catching for me this year. Yippee! I've already broken my record for fishing in a year and there are still 71 fishing days left in the year.
This will be a tough year to beat.
Fished Sunday 10/12 out of Channel Island Harbor for an early morning potential White Sea Bass bite near Port Hueneme canyon with Steve Babcock and Dave Burgis for nada. Saw one 30lb WSB caught and then decided to leave once the Sporties started to leave. We then left for Santa Rosa Island for limits of Rockfish and I caught my personal best Lingcod of 16.5lbs. Sweeeet!!
Fished Wednesday 10/15 night again with Steve Babcock aboard my 23ft Seaswirl Striper "BIG DRUM" at one of my favorite rock piles for limits of tasty Lobsters to 5 pounds. Here is a picture of Steve's son Henry sitting next to Steve's limit on the kitchen floor.
Both Steve and I burned vacations days on Thursday 10/16 and fished out of Marina Del Rey between 11am and 2:30pm. We called Dave who had just finished up with a business meeting and he couldn't resist the invitation to come fishing with Steve and I for a mid-afternoon quickie. We ended up having a great trip when I got lucky enough to find an awesome natural rock pile in 170 feet out in the beautiful Santa Monica Bay.
Here is Dave "Speed Reeler" Burgis with one of the twenty plus endangered and oh so smelly JS Bocaccio's that wouldn't leave us alone. I still can't believe how fast Dave can reel Rockfish to the boat, those Rockfish probably never knew what bit/hit them.
Here is Mr. Dave again with a very impressive SMB Vermilion Rockfish.
Fished Saturday 10/18 with Joe Kocrak and his girlfriend Nancy aboard "BIG DRUM" at the Horseshoe Kelp area. Launched out of the Queen's Way ramp in Long Beach and did a B line to Bill's bait receiver at 5am. Anchored near the receiver and caught 84 Mackerel within an hour and twenty minutes. Headed out to the Shoe area around 6:30am; We first fished Atlantis, Lobster and Herb Curley Rock for nada and then we moved out to Bull Kelp for again nada. Then went to Tom's Rock, Near Tom's and NW Tom's for finally 2 keeper Vermilion Rockfish, 1 keeper Whitefish, 1 gazillion Cinnamon Rockfish, 4 Sculpin, 1 Sand Bass and 1 baby 12lb Mako Shark. Then I made a move to the Big Rock/EE Bubbles area for a 14lb Yellowtail Jack that ate a big Mackerel on the dropper loop. Made it back to the ramp 10 minutes before the International Speed Ski Racing Contest began at 12:00am.
What an awesome week, can't wait to get back on the water. FRESH-ONE!!
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