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Boat Fishing => Saltwater Boat Fishing Reports => : jrodda May 31, 2021, 07:55:36 PM
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Chris got me hyped up on threshers, especially since he did it from a similar boat to mine. So I launched out of MDR this morning about 0900 and headed south down the coast looking for signs of bait. Took me til Hermosa Pier before I finally spotted life. Saw some dolphins thrashing about and pelicans following along. Then once I got closer the dolphins chilled out and acted like they were just kiddin' around.
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Set out a dead mack anyways, rigged on a 7/0 circle and 3oz egg sinker on a wire leader. Slow trolled in a zig zag looking for something on the surface or marks. Reeled up and ran a few hundred feet and scared up a bait ball so I slow trolled for a good while longer while trying to put the sabiki into the bait ball.
Other than when I intercepted the bait a couple times, the only marks I saw all day were these, I like to think they were cuda but who knows.
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Started to feel stupid here so I moved south. No signs of life around Redondo Canyon. Pretty much got a view of the water to PV and wasn't seeing any birds so I kicked it back to the Hermosa area, but the wind was picking up and I couldn't find my bait ball again. Decided to throw on a Rapala Magnum and troll a couple miles back before packing it in.
Got to the ramp about 1300. I take the outboard off at the dock and put it in my trunk before taking the boat out of the water to make things lighter and easier. Good thing I do, cuz I almost got common-deered.
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Skunked because I refused to have a Plan B today. Gonna try this until I get it right.
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Refusing plan B is the path to glory. Sometimes it's a long path. Go for it.
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You’ll get em. It took me 4 hours to get a bite my first try, then nothing the second and finally found them the 3rd. By the 5th trip I was able to get two to the boat. They play a little different in each area but you're in awfully deep water. You have to remember the pier guys slay them.
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They play a little different in each area but you're in awfully deep water. You have to remember the pier guys slay them.
I'm no expert, but that's what I was thinking. I've seen them caught when we were fishing for mackerel off the pier.
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Refusing plan B is the path to glory. Sometimes it's a long path. Go for it.
Exactly!
Last pic is hilarious! Bigger Threshers mixed with makos used to be at the Carlsbad Canyon for years. I've hooked many in the 70-90 foot depth at the kelp bed edge slow trolling for yellows, but got most of my bites less than that.
I have no doubt you'll be posting up some thresher pics soon!
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I was looking around in that shallower zone 100-200 yards off the beach but it was quiet over there. 70ft was just the one spot I found any life at all. Trolled the magnum through miles of the 30’ column.
Im thinking I’ll try again Saturday in a different area.
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Trolled the magnum through miles of the 30’ column.
I feel you bro.
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Keep it up dude, you'll get 'em!