08-07-2003, 04:15 AM
Hey there guys,
Having to fish 3 solid consecutive days on the 3/4 day boats here in Southern California was really tough work. I wouldn't wish having to make that effort on anyone.
Monday and Tuesday I rode the Pierpoint and today (Wednesday) I fished on the Premier. Limits of sand bass were the order of the day the first two days with limits of both sand bass and barracuda today. That's not just individual limits that's boat limits.
The live bait at this time of years is not always the best so although we had good chum bait the hook bait was scarce.
No matter, most people have gotten used to fishing with plastic swimbaits and that's what accounted for most of the limits.
The bass were not that big with the biggest being around 4 pounds. The Barracuda with pretty good average size with a number pushing up into the 7 1/2 to 8 pound range.
Lots of boats out on the Huntington Flats where we saw the Victory, Southern Cal, Native Sun, Enterprise, Monte Carlo, Western Pride, City of Long Beach..... you name it they were there! ha ha
All these boats have done well the last few days with many getting limits.
During the three days a very large Halibut and legal White Sea Bass where also caught.
The Barracuda love the red and white swimbaits both Kalin and Whams with the sand bass chewing just about any color you threw out and let sink. Most of the fish were caught on the sink at first then spread out throughout the water column once the bite began to build.
Today was the most crowded day with 40 some passengers while Monday was the lite day(12) and Tuesday OK (20).
Lot's of good fun and lot's of short fish. Most legals where just that 12 to 14 inches. If you like to fish numbers instead of quality, nows the time to go! I've heard that the quality fish are consistantly caught on the twilights. The twilight boats are packed and I don't like that!
JapanRon
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