Thanks for the writeup, exciting day. I've noticed whitefish tend to know when you have 9 of them in the bag. Nice to get a yellow this early!

So much adversity, so many more fish tacos! Good to see the Cyclops get wet.

Hey! There they are! I would have thought you would've tried for some yellows also, but those are some nice reds!

Glad to see you and the boys bouncing around on the Cyclops again!

 Well, it was time to try the Knee on The Cyclops and get some Rockfish. Max and Myles had the day off work so it was a go 


We launched out of Dana Landing and headed North, Max was 1st on the Board


Soon after, Myles and I doubled up


We jumped around and found a few more, nothing huge but still fun




Max made it till about noon, then Ralph and Hugo showed up  


Myles kept adding to the Kill Bag, Max not so much  



My Buddy followed us up to LJ and he wanted to head in at noon I still had spots to fish but since Max was not up to snuff, we headed in too and called it a day. My Knee was pretty well done and probably good we came in early, I could barely walk when I got home   Next outing will be Bishop and Mammoth in a couple weeks, then more Cyclops Adventures

Went to Elsinore ready to load up a trash can on Friday morning, 4/3.
Walked the mile and a half stretch of beach and got one shot on a fish. They were gone. Of course the one shot had an equipment malfunction and it landed on the shore instead on in the carp.
Predictably unpredictable.

Next time hopefully the spawn will be on with close packed groups of fish.

- Keith

- Keith

That's a lot of lobsters on your board. They must have really been crawling that night. 

- Keith

Enjoying more fish pictures. Going to have to see what's at the beach these days with a super El Nino on its way.

- Keith

What a great catch for the day. I wish I were out there with you. Enjoyed the pictures.

- Keith

That's an awesome area! I've taken a few geology trips there and classes on the area. When the roads open up I'd give Onion Valley a look, great spot.

Plan was to get limits of rockfish and then move to the yellow grounds.

Rockfish grounds were productive, but the quality was smaller than what I usually find here... at least for the reds.

It was fast limits though.

Green-spotted


Almost a Record Starry...  2lb 9oz.... IGFA world record is 2lb 14oz



Bank Perch



Copper



Reds... Not bad ones, but not the cows I'm used to..



I then get a slamming hit on my 400-gram jig with triple inline hook set up!  I knew this was a big one, but I've also caught quite a few sharks out here in December so suspected this might be one of them.  After a few runs, it was gone and I reeled up my jig with only 1 hook and not 3.  It had to be a sharp tooth critter to bite through 500# braid...

Got my limit and ran in looking for yellows.  I have some new coworkers that wanted fresh fish, so I need to make sure I am their supplier.  lol

I saw one yellow caught slow trolling and heard of a few others, but otherwise it was too many boats in a small area.  I decided to move and load up on whitefish and possibly get lucky on a halibut.

I was catching my whitefish, but also bass. 



Ended up with 5 whitefish and 3 calico.



That was it.  My shoulder is torn up and I headed home to get the boat and fish cleaned up.

Damn was this a huge Starry.  I was hoping it was full of food and not eggs, but I would be wrong.  I did feel kind of bad.





5 ounces away from another IGFA record.  I'll have to pay a bit more attention the next time I head out.

Thanks for reading and until next tide!