a real fish report for a change - Kayak Fishing Adventures on Big Water’s Edge

Harry Hill · 06-08-2016, 12:43 PM

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.

Orca Winfrey · 06-08-2016, 03:47 PM

Nice Harry.

DanaPT · 06-08-2016, 03:52 PM

love days like that.

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

Starsky · 06-08-2016, 03:59 PM

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.

Harry Hill · 06-08-2016, 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Starsky

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.

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.

Amish Ed · 06-08-2016, 09:29 PM

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

cell128 · 06-08-2016, 10:06 PM

Good job!! Love calico tacos!! 😃

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david886720 · 06-08-2016, 10:29 PM

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

Harry Hill · 06-09-2016, 05:13 AM

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Originally Posted by cell128

Good job!! Love calico tacos!! 😃

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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.

Harry Hill · 06-09-2016, 06:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Amish Ed

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

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.

Amish Ed · 06-09-2016, 08:38 AM

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

FullFlavorPike · 06-09-2016, 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Harry Hill

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.

Damn those 2012 regulations!

Harry Hill · 06-09-2016, 01:47 PM

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Originally Posted by FullFlavorPike

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.

FullFlavorPike · 06-09-2016, 01:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Harry Hill

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.

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

Harry Hill · 06-09-2016, 01:59 PM

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.

FullFlavorPike · 06-09-2016, 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Harry Hill

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

06-08-2016, 12:43 PM	#1
Harry Hill Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: Yucaipa, CA Posts: 1,136	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. __________________ you can't eat it if you release it

06-08-2016, 03:59 PM	#4
Starsky Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: Lancaster Posts: 187	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. __________________ Sal

06-08-2016, 09:29 PM	#6
Amish Ed Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Grants Pass, OR Posts: 1,903	WTG, Harry! Glad you had such a great time. __________________ Amish Ed You can't catch it again if it's dead!

06-09-2016, 08:38 AM	#11
Amish Ed Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Grants Pass, OR Posts: 1,903	Ended up having to watch the kids. Tomorrow i'll fish. __________________ Amish Ed You can't catch it again if it's dead!

06-09-2016, 01:59 PM	#15
Harry Hill Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: Yucaipa, CA Posts: 1,136	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. __________________ you can't eat it if you release it

06-08-2016, 03:47 PM	#2
Orca Winfrey Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2015 Location: The I. E. Posts: 353	Nice Harry.

06-08-2016, 03:52 PM	#3
DanaPT Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: South OC Posts: 1,605	love days like that. props for getting out and making it a great day on the water.

06-08-2016, 10:06 PM	#7
cell128 lizard king Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Lakewood Posts: 520	Good job!! Love calico tacos!! 😃 Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

06-08-2016, 10:29 PM	#8
david886720 Member Join Date: May 2016 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 36	Nice report! Got to love when fishing is so good that it becomes catching. Makes up for a lot of the slow days