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JohnMckroidJr
06-13-2022, 09:51 AM
Last week I went to UC Santa Cruz for my daughter's graduation! The weather was beautiful on Monterey bay, and I saw a few kayakers out there from the Campus. An angler on the Santa Cruz pier reported a 38" halibut. Due to the Cali trip, the only kayak angling I did was the Extreme Kayak Fishing Tournament on the 5th.

The tournament nemesis for me was the Great Barracuda.

https://i.postimg.cc/k5T4RC44/Cuda1cfsm.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

The Cudas don't count for the Tournament. Mine were taken on Ribbonfishes rigged like the one in the photo below.

https://i.postimg.cc/90dYybnJ/Ribbonfish.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

Last year ribbonfish caught the king mackerel that won the tournament.

https://i.postimg.cc/NFkRKMKn/Cuda2efsm.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

This year I took 4 cudas on ribbonfish :reel:

https://i.postimg.cc/kG2c1Hyc/Cuda3fsm.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

, and no King Mackerel :mad:

https://i.postimg.cc/Gp1zzzV0/Cuda4cfsm.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

Usually when a Cuda hits a goggle-eye, they make short runs compared to King Mackerel, but when taken on Ribbonfish, I found the fights equal to kings, making them a total spoiler at color.:(
SoCalEDC
06-13-2022, 11:55 AM
Did you purchase the ribbon fish for bait or catch them in a previous session? Pretty cool. I have seen other east coasters target barracuda with long plastic lures that resemble ribbon fish and thought it was odd. Now it makes sense.
BenCantrell
06-14-2022, 12:24 PM
Nice cudas even though they didn't add any points!
JohnMckroidJr
06-14-2022, 02:48 PM
Did you purchase the ribbon fish for bait or catch them in a previous session? Pretty cool. I have seen other east coasters target barracuda with long plastic lures that resemble ribbon fish and thought it was odd. Now it makes sense.


I wish I knew where to catch Ribbonfish. I hear they are taken off the piers in Central and Northern Florida. They are a random occurrence off Ft. Lauderdale. I caught one once trolling a large Bonita strip at night while targeting a Cubera. The ones I used were line-caught brined frozen at $18/2 pack, it was pricey bait to waste on Cudas. They don't really look like the long surgical tube lures that are often marketed for Cudas. I have yet to try one of those lures as Cudas are an incidental and not a targeted species.



Nice cudas even though they didn't add any points!


Thanks Ben, What I would have done to trade all 4 of them for even a runt King. Hindsight is 20/20.... had I known the other anglers' catches, I would have stayed out deep jigging for Tuna. The one I got was good for 9th place.

https://i.postimg.cc/P5brKkb0/Bft-Extreme.jpg (https://postimages.org/)
BenCantrell
06-15-2022, 06:47 AM
I wish I knew where to catch Ribbonfish. I hear they are taken off the piers in Central and Northern Florida. They are a random occurrence off Ft. Lauderdale.

I was out of town last year, but someone local sent me a photo of ribbonfish they were catching in a creek mouth up here near Melbourne. Date of the photo is 2021-11-18, so they must head up creeks to spawn around that time. I believe he said they were catching a lot of them.
JohnMckroidJr
06-22-2022, 04:37 PM
I was out of town last year, but someone local sent me a photo of ribbonfish they were catching in a creek mouth up here near Melbourne. Date of the photo is 2021-11-18, so they must head up creeks to spawn around that time. I believe he said they were catching a lot of them.


Interesting, I have a buddy who found them near a boat ramp in an 8ft deep x 30ft pocket surrounded by 3ft shallow waters over in the Thousand Islands area -- weird fish.