Man, this wind has SUCKED!! It’s blown every day since Labor Day and I’ve had exactly zero fishing reports because of it. Thankfully, it was back to the ocean for some today and bay waters cleaned up enough for some flounder to get caught. Hopefully it’ll stay this way for a bit!
Captain Anthony Matarese Jr. of the Reel Chaos had a nice day in the deep for his anglers putting them on a blue marlin release, a white marlin release and a pile of mahi.
Anglers fishing on board Primary Search had a great day in the canyons with a pile of mahi, a bunch of blueline tilefish and a very nice yellowfin tuna.
Captain Chris Mizurak of the Angler was happy to get back on the water today after 5 days off. Fish weren’t chewing the bottom of the boat off, but they did have a real nice catch of keeper sea bass after weeding through the shorts.
Stacey Schindler fished the route 50 bridge with Rich Daiker this afternoon and landed a limit of keeper flounder up to 19″ on live bunker.
This report of a very nice 20″ keeper flounder came in from Rick Krasnick. Fish was caught on the Deadly Tackle Deadly Double in orange with a white Gulp at Homer Gudelsky Park.
Captain Monty Hawkins of the Morning Star was happy to get out again today too and his clients were rewarded with some nice fish.
OC Fishing Center’s giant flag laying tight against its staff; a colorful sunrise accompanied by no wind at all greeted us at the dock. After five days of a dry NE wind to contend with, plenty glad we finally caught a break.
Dern sure some swell left over. A few even went to eight feet as measured on a sounder. (video has 4 & 5 footers near sea buoy.) They were well-spaced long-period ground swells; however, and did not present a problem.
First we slid on off to Rambler Reef where Abraham deployed a 24 reef block unit. (Built 100% off the stern of my boat with small fishing trip drops, the reef is doing well..)
As ever on our mahi trips, I held further east after the block drop.
I’d strongly hoped water temps would hold in NE/ENE winds. After all, it was only just enough breeze to keep us at the dock – not a major blow – with winds pushing in from offshore too ..and that’s what happened. We began fishing in 72.5 degree water – exactly the same as this morning’s air temp – and only 1.5 degrees cooler than we’d left it..
We also caught false albacore (little tunny in the book) at a pretty good pace while underway. Nothing wrong with well-scented fresh bait.
Although temps remained favorable and the bait was still twitching, our first two drops offered a goose egg. The third?
Fish on.
Our catch sure didn’t come easy, no ‘mahi mayhem’ this day, but we sent em all home with dinner.
Big Jon (who is on the verge of his “Hurricane Jon” merit badge..) took the pool. He’s been down over a week and has only fished twice; was high hook both trips though and a big help with our reef project Thursday too.
Speaking of reef projects.. Might – maybe! – have a chance at putting our newly decorated barge down inside the Ringmaster Reef Group early this coming week. Trying to make a reef building timetable is a losing proposition. Something always comes up.
Always.
Deployments cannot be hurried – safety is absolutely our first priority
..then accuracy.
Cheers,
Monty
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