New Years Eve species fishing

[BenCantrell]

Happy New Years everyone! Let's see some more sharks this year. 

Ally and I got an invite to go out for an end of year species hunting trip. We fished depths ranging from 60 ft to 410 ft using sabikis, jigs, and shark rigs. Added +3 to my list, and Ally added +6, so it was a very successful day.

Coney +1


Scrawled filefish


Grey triggerfish


Blackline tilefish +1


Rough triggerfish +1


Smooth puffer


Sand tilefish


Yellowhead wrasse


Ally caught a bunch that I still need: longspine squirrelfish, queen triggerfish, butter hamlet, and princess parrotfish.



We had one take on the shark rig, but it dropped the bait before I tightened the drag. A month or two ago we had a 411 lb barrel swivel explode on a big fish (probably a goliath grouper), so now I'm using 660 lb ball bearing swivels. The coated wire and mono are both 200 lb. I have some 880 lb swivels as well but haven't added them to any rigs.



Can't wait to get out there again!

[Latimeria]

So cool Ben!  My 2022 goal is to catch some new species myself as I usually don't target them unless they are on the bigger side of fish, but this year will be different.  I'm only in the low 300's on species and remember when I had 200 species more than KenT... Not anymore.. hahahaha

Did you ever get your Guineafowl Puffer when you were still out here?  I'm only asking because the Rough Trigger has the puffer pattern look only in trigger form.

[vdisney]

Great pictures Ben, thanks for sharing

[BenCantrell]

Tom, which of these rockfish do you need? I should be able to dig up pins for any of them. Maybe one of the oddball ones is repeatable.

Kelp
Brown
Gopher
Copper
Greenspotted
Starry
Sunset
Calico
Greenstriped
Swordspine
Chilipepper
Squarespot
Mexican
Blackgill
Vermilion
Blue
Speckled
Bocaccio
Grass
Rosy
Greenblotched
Flag
Stripetail
Halfbanded
Olive
Treefish
Pinkrose
Honeycomb

[skrilla]

It's like living in an aquarium. Cool fish!

[jrodda]

Constantly reminding us how insane the fishery is out there. Thanks for the report and happy New Year!

Tom, which of these rockfish do you need? I should be able to dig up pins for any of them. Maybe one of the oddball ones is repeatable.

Kelp
Brown
Gopher
Copper
Greenspotted
Starry
Sunset
Calico
Greenstriped
Swordspine
Chilipepper
Squarespot
Mexican
Blackgill
Vermilion
Blue
Speckled
Bocaccio
Grass
Rosy
Greenblotched
Flag
Stripetail
Halfbanded
Olive
Treefish
Pinkrose
Honeycomb

Blackgill, stripetail, pinkrose......

[BenCantrell]

Did you ever get your Guineafowl Puffer when you were still out here?  I'm only asking because the Rough Trigger has the puffer pattern look only in trigger form.

No, that would have to be down in Mexico right? I saw them in Acapulco many years ago, but they snubbed their noses at our squid.

[BenCantrell]

Blackgill, stripetail, pinkrose......

PM sent. I'd be stoked to see people catch fish from some of my pins.

[BenCantrell]

I'm only in the low 300's on species and remember when I had 200 species more than KenT... Not anymore.. hahahaha

Ken just passed 1000! Canada finally opened up for travel, so he flew to Singapore and caught 60+ new ones.

[KogaHead]

That is some cool looking fish.

Tom you numbers whore.

[Latimeria]

Tom you numbers whore.

Yep, and my football numbers are even higher!  It must hurt your neck from having to look up all the time on the list and seeing my backside from down there.  hahaha