07-29-2018, 03:59 PM
Launched davies 6am 22ft c.c. introduced myself to a few guys in the morning while we were preparing our boats. John on a proline and Peter on easy money, whats up guys!! Shared our general gameplans with eachother and decided we would keep in touch via 75 to share intell. I couldnt get a response from either of them all day!! Hopefully they were too busy catching fish to answer the radio! But from what we saw and heard on 75 today, it was not good for most.
Our plan.. once out of davies skip bait barge make macks. Point in general direction of corner and check out a bit of the N9 on the way. If no go at corner shoot to 182 then up to 181 and if nothing was going, jam down to pukey for a shot at the yt action.
Our day. Exactly per planned! Made some great macks just outside if jeddy inlet. Some as small as 4" and some monsters. Standard sabiki rigs. Headed to corner and explored N9 on the way. Tons of porpoise, bait and birds... everywhere! Water green but trolled in and out of porpoise for an hour or so, then decided to split to the corner. Water cleared to a nice blue as the chloro charts indicated. Found a few patties and even marked some fish 20-80ft around some patties. Tried chumming, through flat falls/snipers/irons. Trolled our way up to 182 could not find patties or much life on the way. We got to the inside ridge and started seeing patties and birds working all over. Never marked any fish where birds were but saw a dodo on one of the patties as we cruised by it after we already fished it. Tried to stay in same temp water working in and out of a 71 to 72 degree temp break on the way up to 181. Found patties the hole way up to 181, just no fish on any of them. Saw a large mako on the way. Get to 181 area and it was the same story there. Found some birds searching around, but couldnt find fish. Worked back down outside ridge to 182. We saw life, but was mainly sheerwater, not many tern. Got to 182 and after not seeing a single foamer, decided to bust out the downrigger to slow troll some macks down deeper in the column. Had some issues with down rigger assembly so scratched that idea. About 4:30 in the day now we decide to haul ass down to pukey to at least try for some yt. Marked what we believed to be yt, and they were stacked! Figured it was going to be game on. Slow trolled macks for nothing. Anchored on great marks and started chumming. Drifted while throwing 6xjr's, surface irons, poppers, snipers while flylining some great macks. Nothing. Could see fish coming up on the meter but never got takers. I should add we did see a lot of bird schools working a couple hundred yards off the island but never investigated as we were marking good fish on the island. Only fished it for 1.5hrs or so and was only our second time at the nados as we always prefer to be offshore. Decided to call it as the sun was close to setting. Nada at the nados for us.
I dont want to say it was a tough day of fishing because we never really found fish to fish for!! The constant finding of patties and semi-working terns kept us going and continuously gave us hope. Hopefully today will be better for the fleet. And hopefully things pick up big time and give us all some exciting socal fishing. Not sure about you guys but i keep patiently waiting for that 2015 season to come back! Limits for 4 of yft up to 70lbs just 10 miles out of dana point, eating chunk bait and whatever else we through out there. Week after week. Im sure this is wishful thinking, but with the amount of bait inshore vs what we saw offshore, all we need is the right conditions. Good luck out there.
Our plan.. once out of davies skip bait barge make macks. Point in general direction of corner and check out a bit of the N9 on the way. If no go at corner shoot to 182 then up to 181 and if nothing was going, jam down to pukey for a shot at the yt action.
Our day. Exactly per planned! Made some great macks just outside if jeddy inlet. Some as small as 4" and some monsters. Standard sabiki rigs. Headed to corner and explored N9 on the way. Tons of porpoise, bait and birds... everywhere! Water green but trolled in and out of porpoise for an hour or so, then decided to split to the corner. Water cleared to a nice blue as the chloro charts indicated. Found a few patties and even marked some fish 20-80ft around some patties. Tried chumming, through flat falls/snipers/irons. Trolled our way up to 182 could not find patties or much life on the way. We got to the inside ridge and started seeing patties and birds working all over. Never marked any fish where birds were but saw a dodo on one of the patties as we cruised by it after we already fished it. Tried to stay in same temp water working in and out of a 71 to 72 degree temp break on the way up to 181. Found patties the hole way up to 181, just no fish on any of them. Saw a large mako on the way. Get to 181 area and it was the same story there. Found some birds searching around, but couldnt find fish. Worked back down outside ridge to 182. We saw life, but was mainly sheerwater, not many tern. Got to 182 and after not seeing a single foamer, decided to bust out the downrigger to slow troll some macks down deeper in the column. Had some issues with down rigger assembly so scratched that idea. About 4:30 in the day now we decide to haul ass down to pukey to at least try for some yt. Marked what we believed to be yt, and they were stacked! Figured it was going to be game on. Slow trolled macks for nothing. Anchored on great marks and started chumming. Drifted while throwing 6xjr's, surface irons, poppers, snipers while flylining some great macks. Nothing. Could see fish coming up on the meter but never got takers. I should add we did see a lot of bird schools working a couple hundred yards off the island but never investigated as we were marking good fish on the island. Only fished it for 1.5hrs or so and was only our second time at the nados as we always prefer to be offshore. Decided to call it as the sun was close to setting. Nada at the nados for us.
I dont want to say it was a tough day of fishing because we never really found fish to fish for!! The constant finding of patties and semi-working terns kept us going and continuously gave us hope. Hopefully today will be better for the fleet. And hopefully things pick up big time and give us all some exciting socal fishing. Not sure about you guys but i keep patiently waiting for that 2015 season to come back! Limits for 4 of yft up to 70lbs just 10 miles out of dana point, eating chunk bait and whatever else we through out there. Week after week. Im sure this is wishful thinking, but with the amount of bait inshore vs what we saw offshore, all we need is the right conditions. Good luck out there.