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Author: Jim Day |
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Date Posted: 1003087900PDT Fished Saturday local around PV. pic.. pic.. pic.. I was supposed to be on my way to the 9 but at the last minute I got a call from Ken "Battle Ax": Rocky seabass on the chew. The word was several guys got them and Larry had a few scoops of squid. The plan was to get there early, get candy, whack a few fish, then head back in and drive on down to SD. Got there at 4:30 and was number three in line. Larry showed at 5:00 and gave me a very generous load of quality squirters. Ken showed right behind me and passed me on the way down to rocky. Gray light found me metering squid off Rocky to no avail. Best concentrations were just short of the lobster traps in 110 feet of water. 33.47.398-118.25.975 Lots of bait lots of bass lots of lingcod. I released a number of nice cali's before the City of Redondo came and parked right on my @ss. Always makes me laugh because I know I've done my job. They do it so often I don't even take pictures anymore. A boat fifty times my size following me and my little Furuno 600L LOL I really wanted a seabass so I decided to head south and meter. Lots of bait and fish off PV right now. I metered a ton of stuff from Rocky to the light house. No takers though. Off Marine land I hooked a huge Shovel nose that took about twenty minutes on the 17 lb. fluorocarbon. A kayaker came over to watch. We started to yak and he told me that he'd caught a nice sea bass against the kelp earlier in the week. This got me thinking. Why not fish Catalina style tight to the beach. The drift was wrong but I could slow troll the squid along the kelp line. I re-rigged and started trolling up the rocks with three rods. The fog slithered in and within a few minutes I couldn't see the rocks fifty feet away. I started just watching the meter trying to keep in fifty feet of water. After about ten minutes the spinning rod with the 17b fluorocarbon goes off. Man that rods been lucky this year. I didn't know what I had but I knew it was big. It went right to the bottom then stayed there trying to rock me. To keep out of the kelp I threw the motor in reverse and backed out towards open water. The fish just would not give, but what was it? No long run of a sea bass, no head shakes like a Halibut. After a while I figured it must be Black sea bass, it just kept dogging. I'd even set down the gaff when it came to color. Turns out after amost thirty minutes up comes a big old moss-backed, home-guard, yellow. I was so shocked I missed the first shot but did gaff and deck him. Weird old fish. He had a huge scar in his back where he'd been shark attacked many years before. Several large tube worms had attached themselves there and actually were covered with moss, a real mossback! He was long with a big head very skinny. My first estimate was around twenty five then went up because of his length. He looked almost four feet long. Turns out he was 42 inches long and twenty one pounds. If he'd been filled out he would of easily gone over thirty. It took me few minutes to find the spot in the fog. Fished it straight for Nadda then went back to slow trolling. A few miles up the rocks I hooked another decent fish. This one turned out to be the kind. Thirty inches, 10 pounds, white sea bass. First on the new boat. I was stoked. Had a great time: would of come in sooner but kept fishing due to the fog. NO point in trying to run home in it. Fished all day: over twelve hours on the water on about seven gallons of gas. You can't beat that. One negative. At Larry's on the way in I ran into some yahoo who told me the tail was a "little one" about 15 lb. he then launched into : "WELL AT THE ALIJOS ROCKS....." Man what do you have to do to impress some people. I build my own boat, fish all day in the fog, catch a twenty pound + yellow and a nice C-bass off a nonexistent bite and I still have to deal with BS.... I'm sure I was using the wrong kind of tackle too. I'll keep that in mind next time I'm hooked up to a twenty pound local mossback. Some guys just don't have a clue. Even so ...Great day! Not wide open long range fishing, but there are some decent fish to be had around PV. Well I guess it's time to go whack some tuna. Tight lines Jim [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |