Catalina Premier Trip 5/20

[JapanRon]

Hey there guys,

Went out on the 3/4 day Premier out of Pierpoint Landing for a Friday shot at the fish. With the water and fishing warming up, it was still a fairly lite load for Friday. Danny ran the boat today with Karl who was doing backup skipper duties and helping out on deck when needed. Quite a few other sporties out today and we can expect traffic to grow with the fish counts. It's still a great time to avoid the comming crowds and have a shot at a yellow.

Left at 6am sharp. Headed for Catalina with some awesome bait both anchovies and sardines. Fished the inside, central area for quality calicos just about all day. Moved around trying different shallow water kelp areas and got bit whereever we set the hook. Bait was the ticket today, although I did get bit in flurries if I could put a swimbait right at the edge of the kelp and let it fall. On the plastics.... I got bit from the second it hit the water to bumping the bottom. My better fish were deeper. Bait by far got more bites and the dines usually got, as one would expect, the bigger bass.

My best bass burrowed down in the kelp but I finally got the guy out on the FIFTH try by keeping the line tension neutral (not slack), then letting the fish run and get up a little speed, then keeping the rod at 10 or 11 o'clock, putting the spool in gear, and reeling like crazy. I won the patience award today man !

Used my All American graphite rod and Calcutta 400S today with 15 pound test line, 4 foot of 12 pound test fluro, 1/4 oz. leadhead with a Kaliln 4 inch green/pearl or two-tone green with metalflake swimbait. WARNING: The truth is ...... I'm gonna have to step-up my gear as I'm getting dangerously close to being under-gunned when the yellows do break wide open.

I look up and down the rail today and I could hardly find my rig! Half the guys had some version of 'MY' rod and you guessed it..... a Shimano Calcutta 400 ! Sheeeh !!!

Caught tons of calicos, we saw lots and caught a few barracuda with some awesome yellowtail signs and boated at least one. The water was clear and again the water temp is climbing. Check the reel time reports.

Met some fishing message board lurkers (sameday to be members) and 'one skilled angler' known by the handle the_lonely_sea. Nice fishin' with ya buddy. Hope to share the rail with you again sometime.

Weather was fantastic all day with a little chop going and returning in the afternoon.

Good boat, great crew, productive fishing ......and fun group!

tsurikichi
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[Fishslayer]

"[size 1]I look up and down the rail today and I could hardly find my rig! Half the guys had some version of 'MY' rod and you guessed it..... a Shimano Calcutta 400 ! Sheeeh !!! "[/size]
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[size 1]Sounds like ya need to go see yer local rodbuilder. A nice rewrap with some loud metallics will cure that "Where's my rig?" problem.[/size]
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[size 1]Shouldn't cost too much to get one of those freshwater sticks wrapped up...[sly][/size]

Good ya got into some feesh. I saw some reports elsewhere that said they also were getting a lot of follows, boils & bumps from the YT, but very few eaters.

Hope the feesh are ready to go next weekend! [cool]
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[WFBRadio]

Ron,
No need to get the whole rod rewrapped just add a name label or a decorative wrap above the top forgrip that will make your rod stand out. [url "javascript:misspelled('aboved', 0)"][/url]
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[JapanRon]

Hi there WFBRadio,

Listen every week...... great show! On the two rods I was talking about.. One has guides whose feet have rusted and the rust has come through the wrap. The guides must have been 1 1/2 wrapped ! little joke i.e play on double or triple wrapped. It must basically be cleaned up, treated, and put back on the blank and ..... I want to put a set of AFTCO lightweight roller guides on the other rod. I will wrap these two rods myself and will not use that wierd blue color! ha ha ha

Thanks for the concern and always look forward to hearing your input. Ya... I really have too much time on my hands !!

JapanRon
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[WFBRadio]

Ron ,
Have you used the [font "Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"][black][size 1][font "Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"][black][size 1]AFTCO lightweight roller guides I have a rod with them and I don't like them they twist the line and when you cast the line will wrap around the tip and snap the line . I only used it for lite line up and down fishing.
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[JapanRon]

Hi again WFBRadio,

Actually I was going to use it for light tackle SWRF and pulling big sheephead off the bottom in and around the kelp and boilers where one does not need to cast very far.

Thanks for the input ..... what length rod and how many guides including the tiptop did you have?

JapanRon
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[WFBRadio]

Ill let you know later
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[WFBRadio]

Ron
The rod I have is a Lamieglass CA79HC It has 7 guides plus the tip
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