The REEL Ironman

[WCW Moderator]

The real "Ironman" will be decided in 2006. It won't be decided by the biggest YT caught or even how many. It will be more like a scavenger hunt. Here is a list of all the inshore fishes that I have caught on the iron. The person who catches the most of the fish on the list will be this year's IRONMAN. Fish do not have to be in season or of legal size, just snap the picture in the water at boatside, at arms length, on deck, or have someone take the picture, just make sure the jig is in the mouth.

greenback mackerel
spanish mackerel
smelt
lizardfish
sand dab
rockfish
cabezon
treefish
lingcod
midshipman
sarcastic fringehead
surf perch
yellowfin croaker
spotfin croaker
sheephead
halibut
spotted bay bass
sandbass
calico bass
bonito
barracuda
yellowtail
white seabass
black seabass
senorita
tomcod
blacksmith
halfmoon
shark, or ray
wild card


Traditional irons only, flat on one side, rounded on the other. No eyes or realistic finishes, old school.

Just get a picture of the iron in the fish's kisser. No entry fee, you are in when you post your first picture. Maybe we will come up with a prize.......maybe not :D

Madscientist http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/bradcalico.jpghttp://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/bradrockfish.jpghttp://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/treefish.jpghttp://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/imbrad2.jpghttp://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/imbrad.jpg
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/brad3.jpghttp://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/brad2.jpghttp://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/brad1.jpghttp://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/bradtomcod.jpghttp://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/bradboney.jpghttp://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/bradyt.jpg
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/bradsheep.jpghttp://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/bradsculpin.jpghttp://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/imbradlizard.jpghttp://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/imbradsmelt.jpg
http://www.boomspeed.com/andyboy/wcwline.gif
Iceman http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/imandywsb.jpghttp://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/ironsculpin.jpghttp://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/irongreenback.jpghttp://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/rockfish.jpghttp://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/andycalico.jpg
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/andyyt.jpghttp://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/andycuda.jpghttp://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/imandylizardfish.jpghttp://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/imandywild.jpghttp://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/IMandybone.jpghttp://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/IMandysandbass.jpg
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/IMandylingcod.jpg
http://www.boomspeed.com/andyboy/wcwline.gif
Holy Mackeral http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/IMGP0051_001.jpghttp://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/1greenie.jpghttp://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/LJ_5_9_06_006.jpghttp://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/holymacrockfish.jpghttp://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/imchrishalibut.jpg
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/imchrisgreenback.jpghttp://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/imchrishwsb.jpghttp://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/imchrissandbass.jpghttp://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/imchrissmelt.jpg
http://www.boomspeed.com/andyboy/wcwline.gif
Tylerdurden http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/tylerdurdensb.jpghttp://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/tylerdurdenlizard.jpghttp://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/imtyler.jpghttp://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/tyler1.jpghttp://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/imtylercalico.jpg
http://www.boomspeed.com/andyboy/wcwline.gif
Bohloe http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/boloewc.jpghttp://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/1ROCKFISH.jpghttp://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/imboloeling.jpghttp://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/imboloeyt.jpg
http://www.boomspeed.com/andyboy/wcwline.gif
Ski http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/imski3.jpghttp://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/imski2.jpghttp://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/imski1.jpg
http://www.boomspeed.com/andyboy/wcwline.gif
Esdees http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/imesdeescuda.jpghttp://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/imesdeescalico.jpg
http://www.boomspeed.com/andyboy/wcwline.gif
Steveooo http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/stevoodab.jpg http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/stevorock.jpg
http://www.boomspeed.com/andyboy/wcwline.gif
Jimi http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/jig_stamped.jpg
http://www.boomspeed.com/andyboy/wcwline.gif
Hooked http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/hook1.jpg
http://www.boomspeed.com/andyboy/wcwline.gif
nmbrinkman http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/nmbrinkmandab.jpg

[Dennis]

Soooo... I guess I can't submit this thing. :lol:

http://momentoffame.com/photopost/data/528/medium/11_0023.jpg

[Iceman]

Dennis, I am gonna add a wild card, one per person for those oddities. That is pretty cool. I pulled up a starfish once :D

Now if the judges will confirm that it is hooked in the area of the mouth :D

[tylerdurden]

It isn't a yt but I gotta start somewhere.

Sand Bass 3/25/06
http://www.bloodydecks.com/gallery/files/7/1/3/5/IMG_0539.JPG

4/1/06
Wow is the embarasing. Probably the only time I will post a lizard fish pic.
http://www.bloodydecks.com/gallery/files/7/1/3/5/IMG_0548.JPG

[madscientist]

Toad calico that hit the tady 4/0 single hook iron at SCI.

http://www.bloodydecks.com/gallery/files/4/7/3/0/DSC09985_82550.JPG

[Iceman]

The deadly sculpin, was no match for the 30# string and 6Xjr. I am on the board!

http://www.bloodydecks.com/gallery/files/1/1/8/2/ironsculpin.jpg

[Jimi]

wsb on 20lb Ande and blue neon & white Jimijig
http://jimijig.com/images/jig_stamped.jpg

[hooked]

here one for the wildcard


http://homepage.mac.com/phspiller/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2006-04-21%2018.50.55%20-0700/Image-56CB4F12D1A211DA.jpg

[madscientist]

here one for the wildcard




Awesome. Right in the mouth too (or close enough to whatever is the mouth on one of those). :lol: The wildcard is turning out to be the most interesting part of this.

[tylerdurden]

Damn, I forgot to take the pic of the sea cucumber I snagged last Tuesday with the jig. That was a first for me. Some funny stuff is coming up on those heavy irons.

[steveooo]

Some people say it is the action or the color of the jig. I say it is the low price on the sticker.
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d154/bigsteveorr/P4210006.jpg
Sent this one down as Ling bait. No Love
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d154/bigsteveorr/P4210023.jpg

[Ryan The Sealion]

here one for the wildcard


http://homepage.mac.com/phspiller/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2006-04-21%2018.50.55%20-0700/Image-56CB4F12D1A211DA.jpg

yoyoing in the bay huh...? :lol:

[hooked]

yo-yo ing in the bay is the only effective was to catch the elusive giant man-eating rocket powered bay snail. I know it is technical, but when targeting this species, it is the only way to go.



-well actually, I had every intention of launching for La Jolla that morning, but after a 1/2 hour of watching some pretty wicked waves crash down on the beach, I chickened out! I then headed to the bay rather than come home and mow the lawn. I was i'll equiped for the bay, and dying to get my new jig wet that I bought from the Fred Hall show the weekend before. Ya do what ya gotta do!

-Peter[/img]

[madscientist]

I think this is a Johnny bass (olive rockfish). Does that count as rockfish or is it separate. First on I've caught on a hook, snagged plenty in the hoops.

http://www.bloodydecks.com/gallery/files/4/7/3/0/DSC09992_274414.JPG

[reel fun]

brad, cant tell with the lighting but i think its a copper rockfish.

[madscientist]

brad, cant tell with the lighting but i think its a copper rockfish.

I have no idea. These rockfish confuse the heck out of me. What would distinguish the two (just color?).

[Iceman]

Does that count as rockfish or is it separate.

Ya we are just doing one general "rockfish", too many varieties.

[nmbrinkman]

It may actually be a copper...determine for yourselves.
http://www.dfg.ca.gov/MRD/rockfish/images/copper.jpg
copper
http://www.dfg.ca.gov/mrd/rockfish/images/olive.jpg
olive
http://www.bloodydecks.com/gallery/files/1/1/1/7/9/DSC09992_274414.jpg
madsci's

[madscientist]

How about a treefish?

http://www.bloodydecks.com/gallery/files/4/7/3/0/DSC00003.JPG

[Iceman]

How did I forget that one. :oops: I just added it to the list. :D

I have never caught one of those.

[Holy Mackerel]

Technically I am the IRONMAN... Fierro = Iron en espanol! :lol:

http://sdkayakfishing.com/chris/albums/fishing2006/IMGP0051_001.sized.jpg

[reel fun]

mmmmmmm tree fish taste goooooooood

[Holy Mackerel]

Mas Iron Man!!!

5-9-06 Spanish Mackerel

http://sdkayakfishing.com/chris/albums/fishing/LJ_5_9_06_006.sized.jpg

5-11-06 Pacific Mackerel

http://sdkayakfishing.com/chris/albums/fishing/LJ_5_11_06_006.jpg

Had a short barracuda on a salas too, but that was after I heard Phreshwon landed his Toad, so no time to snap pics!

Chris

[Dennis]

Todays submission... 5/12 am. Same fish, two lip shots..
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y11/bohloe1/jobathon023.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y11/bohloe1/jobathon022.jpg

[tylerdurden]

Greenback 5/13/06

http://momentoffame.com/photopost/data/501/medium/IMG_0712.JPG

[madscientist]

Good lord Tyler, where are you fishing, the Arctic? What's with the gloves? :lol: :lol:

Here's some more for me and Mark (ski).

Mark with a greenie...
http://www.bloodydecks.com/gallery/files/4/7/3/0/DSC09998_870117.JPG
and a dab...
http://www.bloodydecks.com/gallery/files/4/7/3/0/DSC00001_562133.JPG
Me with a dab...
http://www.bloodydecks.com/gallery/files/4/7/3/0/DSC00004_336822.JPG
and a wsb....
http://www.bloodydecks.com/gallery/files/4/7/3/0/DSC00007_762268.JPG

[ski]

http://momentoffame.com/photopost/data/521/checker.jpg

[tylerdurden]

I some how made it through tonights shift without gloves. Nice to keep the hands toasty.

It is tough to get a pic of a mac on the iron. When you pull them out of the water they wiggle right off the hook too quick. Took me 3 macs to get that pic. I got a spanish mac on the iron tonight but couldn't get the pic in time.

[madscientist]

These are from last wednesday. Didn't catch the right kind but the iron was hot for trash fish.

The only greenie that stayed on long enough for a pic...

http://www.bloodydecks.com/gallery/files/4/7/3/0/DSC09982_639434.JPG

a turdroller...

http://www.bloodydecks.com/gallery/files/4/7/3/0/DSC09984_309509.JPG

and a cuda...

http://www.bloodydecks.com/gallery/files/4/7/3/0/DSC09989_394500.JPG

Tady 9 is becoming my new favorite.

[tylerdurden]

5/21/06
I got the elusive starfish this afternoon on the canyon edge.

http://momentoffame.com/photopost/data/501/medium/IMG_07241.JPG

[nmbrinkman]

http://www.bloodydecks.com/gallery/files/1/1/1/7/9/natefishing002.jpg
san dab 5/27

[madscientist]

Tomcod in Colonet on the blue and white ironman 2.

http://www.bloodydecks.com/gallery/files/4/7/3/0/DSC00003_731933.JPG

[Holy Mackerel]

add uno mas...

http://sdkayakfishing.com/chris/albums/album03/Colonet_Memorial_Weekend_2006_065.jpg

[madscientist]

Finally got a bonito to bite the iron.

http://www.bloodydecks.com/gallery/files/4/7/3/0/DSC00003_100708.JPG

[madscientist]

Fiesty little firecracker.


http://www.bloodydecks.com/gallery/files/4/7/3/0/DSC00004_358642.JPG

[madscientist]

Couple more from SCI. Sheephead...
http://www.bloodydecks.com/gallery/files/4/7/3/0/DSC00007_699310.JPG

and sculpin....

http://www.bloodydecks.com/gallery/files/4/7/3/0/DSC00010_429687.JPG

[Iceman]

Dammit, who said they had to be hooked in the mouth? :lol:

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/blueperch.jpg

[madscientist]

Dammit, who said they had to be hooked in the mouth? :lol:

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/panda619/blueperch.jpg

What is that?

[nmbrinkman]

rubberlip surfperch? http://www.dfg.ca.gov/mrd/mspcont2.html#rubberlip

[Iceman]

That would be the bane of the island fisherman, I think Cat more than SCI, I have caught them around the Coronados and smaller ones around LJ (not to be confused with blacksmith that look similar). The blue perch, or halfmoon. If you had anything picking off your squid over there it was probably one of these. Supposedly they will attract the WSB, as a pack picks away at your squid, as long as the WSB gets there before the squid is picked away to nothing. That is a pretty big one and I guess they are good eating. IRONMAN.........DENIED! :D

[esdees]

Got a couple of entries today...

Cuda:
http://momentoffame.com/photopost/data/501/medium/IMGP00992.JPG

Calico:
http://momentoffame.com/photopost/data/501/medium/IMGP01011.JPG

-Patrick

[reel fun]

madsientist, i think thats a cabezon not a sculpin. sculpin have a more defined orance while cabezons have that bright red. both also have no scales

[madscientist]

madsientist, i think thats a cabezon not a sculpin. sculpin have a more defined orance while cabezons have that bright red. both also have no scales

I'll take your (or the mods) word for it. I haven't caught enough of the funky bottom critters to really be able to tell them apart.

[tylerdurden]

may as well and at least try and challenge for this.
Checker:

http://momentoffame.com/photopost/data/501/medium/IMG_1026.JPG

[reel fun]

dont be fooled by the bottom critters!!!i had to learn all about them before i got to work on the dolphin. you cant fillet them in california, and they have to be 15"or over. you have to gut and gil them. so whos in the lead for this contest?

[Dennis]

7/14
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y11/bohloe1/NathansIPSK029.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y11/bohloe1/dennis2.jpg

[madscientist]

The inestimable lizardfish...

http://www.bloodydecks.com/gallery/files/4/7/3/0/IMGP0011.JPG

[Holy Mackerel]

Might as well add these... got four more species for this Ironman contest...

WSB...

http://sdkayakfishing.com/chris/albums/album08/IMGP1294_001.sized.jpg

Greenie...

http://sdkayakfishing.com/chris/albums/album08/IMGP1265.sized.jpg

Sand bass... (forgot my scale onshore for WCB :( )

http://sdkayakfishing.com/chris/albums/album08/IMGP1262_001.sized.jpg

Smelt...

http://sdkayakfishing.com/chris/albums/album08/IMGP1211.sized.jpg

[BWE Moderator]

Crap, this one is getting way behind :oops: I need a 25 hour day :lol:

[madscientist]

I got a smelt too...
http://www.bloodydecks.com/gallery/files/4/7/3/0/IMGP0062.JPG

[Holy Mackerel]

This should be worth two Iron man points! :P

http://sdkayakfishing.com/chris/albums/album09/IMGP1502.sized.jpg

[BWE Moderator]

I finally got around to updating this :lol:

[Holy Mackerel]

Nice, cool leaderboard! 8)

[ronbo613]

I'm not that big of a jig fan, but they catch fish from time to time. Here's an underwater shot of a cod who bit a Tady jig:

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/5425/jigcod2gf8.jpg

And a little smile at the boat:

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/5327/jigcod1bd3.jpg

[Holy Mackerel]

Two mas.... Hadn't had three fish on the iron this year yet: YT, Cuda, or Bonito... Finally got the Bonehead...

http://sdkayakfishing.com/chris/albums/album11/bonito.sized.jpg

and a lizard fish.... :P

http://sdkayakfishing.com/chris/albums/album11/lizardfish.sized.jpg

[madscientist]

I love the fact that little lizards will bite a jig as big as they are. I always wonder what the hell they are thinking.

[Hobie-Pedaller]

I love the fact that little lizards will bite a jig as big as they are. I always wonder what the hell they are thinking.


the lizards are wired on PCP.... and they think they are a shark - LOL :lol: