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Saturday 6-16 Bass & Slimer report
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 06/16/2012 10:04 PM
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Whopperstopper
Joined: 04/20/2007
Posts: 71
Location: So Cal
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Saturday 6-16 Bass & Slimer report
Hit the dock around 6 opted to pass on the bait and stick to artificials so we headed straight for some of the local reefs off HB. Weather was heavy overcast with a mocderate wind for early morning but no swell to speak of.
Water was 67-68 degrees and clean, and bait was everywhere. We stopped on 4 or 5 spots to find great marks but none of the fish wanted to bite. We picked up a nice fat Calico on the plastic, but not much else off the reefs. We saw the birds building just outside so we ran out to some deeper water and found lots of porpoise. The sport boats were now arriving on scene and based on the fact we saw boats from San Pedro and Newport we figured this was the only game in town.
It was the classic run & gun type fishing with the Cuda moving quickly. Not having any bait to keep them tight we had to plan for our attack and we did pretty good getting a dozen or so to bite the iron. They were eating the micro anchovies so the smaller the jig the better. Ever now and then we would meter some Bass so we would hit them with the plastics for some nice fish.
The wind really kicked in by Noon and was making it tough in our small boat so by 2 so we called it a day.
We got roughly a dozen each of Bass & Cuda, all nice size fish and released. It looks to me the Sandies are in the pre-spawn mode as they are starting to stack in the 60' range around the SBJ area so I'm hoping we might have a more normal Sand Bass spawn this year.
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06/17/2012 10:18 AM
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Mike_I
Joined: 04/26/2007
Posts: 511
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re: Saturday 6-16 Bass & Slimer report
Congrats on your trip I was also out there with the fleet. We ended the day around noon too with 5 barries and a fat sand bass.
Mike
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06/18/2012 10:14 AM
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tunavic1
Joined: 10/22/2009
Posts: 552
Location: Whittier Calif
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re: Saturday 6-16 Bass & Slimer report
WTG Whopperstopper,great report with some good info.You guys did really well without bait,just think of the bucks you saved,for inshore fishing I only miss using bait when targeting halibut.
Thanks again for the report.
Cya Tuna Vic
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06/18/2012 02:08 PM
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Whopperstopper
Joined: 04/20/2007
Posts: 71
Location: So Cal
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re: Saturday 6-16 Bass & Slimer report
Thanks, I have opted to skip on the bait to make up for the increased gas cost. Even on my small boat a day of fishing is not an inexpensive activity, but the flip side lose a few jigs and the bait cost is almost a wash. In my opinion fishing with artificials makes you try harder, when they turn up their nose you have to keep going to the tackle box to see what works, and presentation is so critical.
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06/19/2012 01:55 PM
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scubasmith
Joined: 04/11/2007
Posts: 217
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re: Saturday 6-16 Bass & Slimer report
I feel your pain....My V8 makes every trip a spendy one. Gas at Catalina is $6.85 a gallon for Regular. Ouch !!! Thanks for your report. Tim
Tim 25' SeaRay "TopShot"
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