a real fish report for a change
 

I hit Newport today, 6/8. The tide was as low as I've ever seen it. I was knee deep in black mud just to get my yak to float. I paddled out of the CG beach area to the main channel and cast a white zoom fluke on a 3/8 bullet head. Caught a calico on the first cast, then for the next hour and a half I caught a fish on every cast. It was crazy, maybe six keepers and the rest short, when the bite slowed down I decided to paddle up to the bait barge, so I trolled the jig and caught calicos and barracuda all the way up. Everyone up there was catching fish including a fly fisherman in a hobie I talked with. I caught my first halibut today, it was only a 10" fish but it was still a first and caught on the jig. I also caught a small sculpin. Then I paddled outside the bay but I didn't know where to go to look for rock fish so I went out about to the channel bouy but then I was lost for where to go so I turned around and headed back. All in all a great day on the water. I was loaded up and on the road by noon.

Nice Harry.

love days like that. :luxhello:

props for getting out and making it a great day on the water.

Great Job Harry,

That keeper Halibut will show up soon enough. If you have a fish finder with chartplotter i can send you my rockfish spot out of newport. Tasty fish to limit on. :reel:

Sal, my FF has gps and I can enter coordinates to go to. It's a Garmin 7sv. I used it for the first time today, I don't know what I was looking at but I'll figure things out. One of the two plugs from the transducer had come out and I didn't notice until I got back. I saw two guys heading out past the buoy but I couldn't catch them and I didn't want to follow them to jump on their spot. I forgot my vhf so I didn't want to go to far out alone. I need to make a check list so I quit forgetting things.

WTG, Harry! Glad you had such a great time.

Good job!! Love calico tacos!! 😃

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Nice report! Got to love when fishing is so good that it becomes catching. Makes up for a lot of the slow days :you_rock:

I would love calico tacos also but for some reason I thought the bass had to be 15", so the bass that just about came to 15 I turned loose, I need to highlight my 14" mark so I remember. Doh.

thanks Ed, I thought about you and Steve yesterday. If you hadn't asked me to fish with you at Newport I don't know if I would have started going there. Have a good day at Mission Bay today, I hope then fish are still on the bite.

Ended up having to watch the kids. Tomorrow i'll fish.

Damn those 2012 regulations!

that and too many years chasing fresh water bass, I really felt bad for the guys in the skiff who had a 21" halibut. I knew my little 10" fish had to go back but how do you stretch a halibut an inch so you can take him home. What a mouthful of teeth that little halibut had, no way I was going to stick my thumb in his mouth.

easy in a skiff. throw his ass on the deck and STOMP

one funny thing that happened yesterday. The dogs were hanging around the bait barge as usual, watching for any bent rods then heading over to make trouble. I was drifting along casting the jig and I sent one over a dogs head, that sucker dove under like I had shot at him. I think people have been casting heavy lead at the dogs and teaching them some lessons. That dog got a long ways away from me after that cast.

Lolz. Casting practice!

Get your 100# tuna stick and start throwing 12oz torpedos at the pups with everything you got.


Which nobody should do cuz it's hella illegal, obvi. But fun thought ;)