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Boat Fishing => Saltwater Boat Fishing Reports => : Latimeria January 06, 2019, 08:34:35 AM
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So I normally would fish the New Moon Lake Jennings trip, but there was a small window for the marine forecast to get out this weekend. I swear every weekend for the past 6 months down here has been a horrible or South wind, big swells and wind waves and/or rain. It never fails, so i had to jump on this opportunity instead.
I heard of Bluefin in close, so brought one troller just in case the seas let me make the run. Unfortunately, they (marine forecasters) were off by about 8-hours in their forecast and the wind was already blowing. I decided for Plan B and catch bass on the rock piles. It was tough to get a bite and I found the reason. Tuna crab floating everywhere! That and tons of mackerel and wiggles with eyes made all of the fish full. I finally found a pile with some willing fish.
(https://i.imgur.com/JSfxfl6.jpg)
Funny thing is I caught 16 bass here and every single one was a turd roller. No Calico. I move to a few deeper rock piles (by 10 feet) and found tons of fish, but they are all the protected ones until March, so they all went back. I was using the iron and plastics with a small squid strip and 15-20 assorted rockfish came over the rail and went swimming back home.
Gophers
(https://i.imgur.com/rGQLnfD.jpg)
Tile Fish
(https://i.imgur.com/yisp39z.jpg)
Browns
(https://i.imgur.com/Tqb87dH.jpg)
Well. it lightly to moderately drizzled on me all day
And one plastic eating Goat. Pretty one with eyeliner and all!
(https://i.imgur.com/9UKvdwu.jpg)
I stopped after I realized there were no bass here and set up the Bounce Ball looking for halibut. I covered miles and miles zig zagging in the right places and at 3 different main depths, but to no avail.
(https://i.imgur.com/h38Ycdg.jpg)
Finally the wind turned SE and picked up big time. I slow trolled my way to the inlet and called it quits. Tough day of fishing today, but it was not a bad way to start out 2019.
Happy Hunting everyone and until next tide!
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Decent day.
You didn’t miss much night fishing. Would have sucked in the boat since it started raining at 4 and never stopped.
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That Tile fish, is that the same as a white fish?
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That Tile fish, is that the same as a white fish?
That's what Whitefish are... Tilefish.
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https://www.mexican-fish.com/ocean-whitefish/
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On my recent 1/2 day trip on the NSF, the cappy was bemoaning the amount of tuna crabs on the sonar. He said they were thick as all hell and it was gonna ruin 1/2 day fishing for a while. Oh yeah, got lots of tile fish too and some little reds off of Del Mar in really shallow water.
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Killer picture of the goat..........................
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Nice Tom! Sure good to see you spending lots of time catching fish instead of fighting the boat gremlins!