Barracuda anyone?

[ful-rac]

All this barracuda fish'n sounds great! Anybody interested in trying for em' off huntington this weekend? I'm sure as hell gonna try!!!:reel::jig:

Tony.

[bus kid]

I'm looking at going out Sat morning launch around 7:00 am

[ful-rac]

Roger...will see you there...dog beach right?

[bus kid]

South end of bolsa chica that hill at dog beach will be too hard to get back up after we kill all the barracuda.:biggrinjester:

[Iceman]

$10 parking at Bolsa or meters at Dog Beach.........bet you could find em under birds out of Newport with free parking!

[onetriphudson]

I'm glad to be a kayak fisherman for many reasons... one of them is my reduced impact on the ocean and my ability to only take what I can use.

I've spent alot of time on the party boats growing up and I've seen so many short barracuda have their faces mangled by jigs when getting shaken off at the rail or even worse, some inland goof fills up a buralap sack with a limit and then he's asking back at the dock if anyone wants them because he doesn't like fish. Don't get me wrong, I've shredded more cuda with the jig than I care to remember and when I see fish counts of 40 guys taking 500 barracuda, I can only hope that the loss of life is going to good use and not just cold-hearted sport. If the slime is biting so good that you can get bit every cast, try a fixed single hook Tady C or maybe even try pinching down the barb.

Just my thoughts...

[bus kid]

I agree with hudson, I dont post post pics because I fish for substance not bragging rights. My family will eat at most 2 cuda, and I will smoke 2 or 3 max to pass on to family and friends. Now as for the Iceman, I will be keeping a ear to the reports, tues it was LB, yesterday it was huntington, looks like they are going south nph launch might be right on the money, I will make a decision as to where I will be going friday night. anyone want to meet up thats good with me, more yaks means less of a chance of being run over by a boat.

See you guys on the water. :jig:

[jorluivil]

I'm in if it's a Saturday afternoon launch or Sunday.

[ctrujillo]

heading to newport tommorow 5-13 anyone else going out?

[mtnbykr2]

heading to newport tommorow 5-13 anyone else going out?
I will be in DP saturday, if someones smokin' cuda I will take a piece...love that stuff, good luck out there and keep a fresh CDR around for when the one you are throwin gets all tore up:reel:

[ctrujillo]

I will be in DP saturday, if someones smokin' cuda I will take a piece...love that stuff, good luck out there and keep a fresh CDR around for when the one you are throwin gets all tore up:reel:cdr? thanks and good luck saturday

[carbonbass]

heading to newport tommorow 5-13 anyone else going out?

i think i will be, you going out the harbor mouth looking for birds? time?

[ctrujillo]

i think i will be, you going out the harbor mouth looking for birds? time?yes i will launch at small beach at 7 am i will be the xxxl :embarassed: guy in the blue xxxfactor

[carbonbass]

yes i will launch at small beach at 7 am i will be the xxxl :embarassed: guy in the blue xxxfactor

i only have a mini-x so im probably slower than you but im willing to paddle up to 1-2 miles out looking for surface birds in the morning, i wacked a few today on the freelance in HB flats, but like others have said its very possible to find a school in newport by tomorrow.

[ctrujillo]

i only have a mini-x so im probably slower than you but im willing to paddle up to 1-2 miles out looking for surface birds in the morning, i wacked a few today on the freelance in HB flats, but like others have said its very possible to find a school in newport by tomorrow.see you otw

[swank]

heading to newport tommorow 5-13 anyone else going out?
I'm taking my dad out, we'll launch off the coast guard station if we can find parking around 9am. Chase birds if we're lucky, if not we're heading to CDM. Just look for the 2 big guys on yellow yaks :P

[mtnbykr2]

cdr? thanks and good luck saturday

rapala cdr14? I think they love em:reel:

[carbonbass]

I'm taking my dad out, we'll launch off the coast guard station if we can find parking around 9am. Chase birds if we're lucky, if not we're heading to CDM. Just look for the 2 big guys on yellow yaks :P

that sounds like a great plan, with the water warming, calicos are not a bad B plan :]

[carbonbass]

just a hint for you guys trying for them tomorrow, they were in the middle-bottom part of the water column, if you dont find birds on top, but you meter bait suspended just off the bottom, drop an iron straight down and crank up, they werent on top at the flats today :jig:

[FishinReelDeals]

I'm glad to be a kayak fisherman for many reasons... one of them is my reduced impact on the ocean and my ability to only take what I can use.

I've spent alot of time on the party boats growing up and I've seen so many short barracuda have their faces mangled by jigs when getting shaken off at the rail or even worse, some inland goof fills up a buralap sack with a limit and then he's asking back at the dock if anyone wants them because he doesn't like fish. Don't get me wrong, I've shredded more cuda with the jig than I care to remember and when I see fish counts of 40 guys taking 500 barracuda, I can only hope that the loss of life is going to good use and not just cold-hearted sport. If the slime is biting so good that you can get bit every cast, try a fixed single hook Tady C or maybe even try pinching down the barb.

Just my thoughts...

Exactly the way I feel. The only difference is I use a dremal to take the barbs completely off. My dad has been fishing cuda barbless before I was fishing. Keep only what your gonna eat and, take care of the fish for a safe realease!

[ful-rac]

Looks like the fish at huntington went down....the fish over at MDR or redondo are still biting so looks like I'll head up there, hopefully it's the right move......:rolleyes::jig:

[bus kid]

I launched out of the coast guard station in NPH around 730 am 5-14-2011.
paddled out to CDR first thing to see what was going on. nothing but angry confused seas and some wind. paddled, trolled and drown some bait, metered something but it didnt want to bite threw some plastic for the calicos on the rocks two hooked and released,headed in and loaded up to moved north on PCH but same story all the way to LB so I called it a day. Hope you guys had a better time in MDR.

[roby]

It was alright...caught a couple of these guys.....

http://i620.photobucket.com/albums/tt285/shh77/Fishing/P5140002.jpg

[theluckypig]

nice roby!:cheers1:

[roby]

@ ful-rac - I hope it's cool with you I report on your thread....

I was too tired to type anything yesterday, but here is brief report on our trip out of MDR. I met up with ful-rac and his buddy at 5am at the MDR boat launch.

Right after getting out of the breakwater we threw our lures in the water and started to troll. I got four macks in about 40 minutes, and one good hit that did not stick within a mile of the breakwater. I looped back to see if I could get another hit, but didn't. A little over a mile out we started looking for any surface action or birds and we saw nothing. There were no boats around us and any we did see were way off in the horizon. We just trolled around some more; then as if the heavens opened up, we saw birds to the north of us.

We took off towards the birds; there was a sportfishing boat looking for cudas too. About a 1/4 mile from the boat I get hit and stick my first cuda. I saw two dogs coming for me so I tightened my drag and hauled it in. I trolled around some more and finally let a jig down and yo-yo'd it. I got hit again and brought in a bigger cuda (8lb).

The bite died down at about 10:30. I didn't see much action on the sportfishing boats or pb'ers. Just from observing the 3-4 sportfishing boats and the crap load of pb'ers on the water, I think our group got the most hook ups on the cuda.

The wind picked up and we headed in at 11:30. The bite was not wide-open, but we definitely gave it a good shot and for an hour or so it sure was fun...

[ful-rac]

Yeah it was fun fish'n with you again roby ! Yeah the boys got a couple of cuda! Rob got 2 nice ones my neighbor Ron got 1 and I got none.....?? Got 1 on the Iron that came off right next to the yak and one come off on the troll....damn! but it was fun! Here are the pics of roby with his cuders!

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u217/pksbshp/IMGP0200.jpg

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u217/pksbshp/IMGP0199.jpg

Had some barracuda tacos last night and.....damn they were so good!!!!! Will be lookin for 'em again asap!!

[mtnbykr2]

Awesome barries Roby, I bet those gave a ride, I didn't do too bad on
bass, really rough water, somebody beat me out by a pound or so, but had a good time...nice report, great job...:reel:

[roby]

Yeah it was fun fish'n with you again roby ! Yeah the boys got a couple of cuda! Rob got 2 nice ones my neighbor Ron got 1 and I got none.....??Ron busted me up...he had two poles, no crate, no fishfinder, but outfished pretty much everyone. He was also paddling a Cobra Fish N' Dive and was just barely paddling, but I couldn't keep up with his ass...haha.

He hooked into 5 cudas. I saw him lose three right by his kayak :jig:

somebody beat me out by a pound or soYou'll get it next time B....I was going to head out to Dana, but I needed to be off the water by 1pm.