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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Quick Summation 5/31

« on: June 01, 2024, 12:32:48 PM »

Been doing plenty of fishing the last two weeks, less catching. It's warmed up though. Spent 3 straight nights last week hunting for stripers. Got a (subtle) bite on the pencil popper the first night, friends hooked and lost a few that week. Tried the beach on a grunion run night and never saw the grunions or got any bites.

Monday had a little beach day with Alicia and knocked off the skunk for the weekend with a couple perch.



Thursday I went out with the c-rig morf grub and got a YFC after a lot of dead water.



Not long after, I felt like I picked up a weed, but had a feeling it was another pancake just hanging on. Brought it onto the hard pack before it let go. I was able to touch it before it washed out at least.

Yesterday, Friday, I went out and committed to white grubs. I figured if the halibut are gonna do that with a morf I might have a lot better chance with white. Once again took a while to get bit, but I eventually found the school, and got 6 YFC, 1 queenfish in almost as many casts.





Then started having leader trouble again, now with my fresh Shimano fluoro, breaking leader on hook sets. One break from tangle fatigue, another was a perfectly fresh leader and in the middle of the line. I brought in a mussel shell clump at one point so maybe some of that is drifting around out there slicing line. Missed several more bites before it got dark.

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Fishing Talk / Re: 60 miles

« on: May 30, 2024, 04:07:41 PM »

I heard they might have passed even closer recently…too windy for me to bother this weekend.

you are a gray haired vagina, go get them

If I wanted a 7 hour trip for some penny flavored meat I’d wine and dine you this weekend buddy, but I think I’ll stick to the sand for some decent tides.

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Fishing Talk / Re: 60 miles

« on: May 30, 2024, 11:32:22 AM »

I heard they might have passed even closer recently…too windy for me to bother this weekend.

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General Board / Re: Football Pool

« on: May 30, 2024, 11:31:20 AM »

ARod says if he doesn’t do a good job they will fire him, sounds like his last brain cell is all revved up and ready for training camp!

I just need to see the fins end their playoff drought. All I have wanted for…decades…

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General Board / Re: Memorial Day Solo Lunch

« on: May 28, 2024, 09:39:54 PM »

You really don’t f around at BPS. My trip the other week was $5 for chocolate covered peanuts. Though they didn’t have the Kalin’s grubs I was looking for…

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Saltwater Personal Craft Fishing Reports / Re: A first

« on: May 27, 2024, 11:48:17 AM »

She’s a real stick! Congrats on the catch…and the halibut too…

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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Re: She did it

« on: May 23, 2024, 07:06:14 AM »

Wow, awesome!! Congrats to her.

A couple coworkers are obsessing over a local striper spot that’s popping off. I scoped out the spot at low tide yesterday and will hit it this weekend in the evening. I hope I can get a little bit of Theresa’s mojo.

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Saltwater Boat Fishing Reports / Re: Red Tide???

« on: May 20, 2024, 07:59:52 PM »

Gross!

Glad you're recovering well Verne!

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Saltwater Boat Fishing Reports / Re: Shakedown Trip and Abbreviations (5/18)

« on: May 19, 2024, 08:40:48 PM »

Good to see you out on the boat. Interesting to hear you go south to PL/PB, nobody really talks about them. Loma makes sense, PB looks a lot more barren on maps though.

Glad you did better than I did today. That water looks nasty.

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General Board / Re: Late Start

« on: May 19, 2024, 01:51:37 PM »

Putting in the work, Farmer Timmy!

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Saltwater Boat Fishing Reports / Boring and Bumpy 5/19

« on: May 19, 2024, 01:32:06 PM »

0600 launch. Windier in the morning than expected. Bumpy right out the gate and stayed about the same with 5-10mph wind all morning. I wanted to record more underwater footage going toward Newport.

Really don't have much to say. Got one bite early on, jack sh!t for the rest of the day. Footage shows the bass weren't around. Reasonably clear water today, 10-20' at the bottom with a decent blue tint. Still cloudy so could have been better. Saw some marks here and there but they were mostly junk blacksmith and smelt, some señoritas...didn't see any bass at all except for two spots. Rough! Just like the ride back to the harbor. Bird activity became more apparent as the morning went on.

No pics, footage isn't really worth posting. Good for knowing the bottom composition, but no sick school shots or biters. But if you wanna see some shaky footage of cruising past empty scattered rocks and telephone poles, then you may persuade me.

Time for a nap.

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Saltwater Boat Fishing Reports / Re: Dana Point

« on: May 18, 2024, 09:56:40 AM »

5 captains and 15 fish woof. Always felt as a deckhand that the most skilled charter groups always had the toughest days, and the newbie groups always had the crazy bite. Glad you had a great time, sounds like a cool unique trip.

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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Re: Kauai Part 3 - "Desperation"

« on: May 17, 2024, 10:27:55 AM »

Glad you found a few! Didn’t quite get to your 400th species but all those are pretty cool and unique.

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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Re: Same Sh Different Day 5/15

« on: May 17, 2024, 10:23:23 AM »

get abrazx of however it is spelled great line

Got a spool of 12 per your suggestion a while back. I was a bit perturbed when it couldn’t hold a uni-uni leader connection for sh!t, popped 100% of the time while cinching the knot. Although I tie a different leader connection knot now I amn’t so sure of it. I think I still have like 170 yards of it laying around though if I ever sum up the balls to try again.

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Freshwater Shore Fishing Reports / Re: Blowing off Steam (5/15)

« on: May 16, 2024, 02:47:34 PM »

Bummer about….well literally almost everything in this post. Hope the fresh air was worth it at least.