Hey guys,
I enjoy the reports up north, and don't often have one that I think may be of interest.
I thought you might enjoy this one. Water is real warm down here...more so than usual (around 73 degrees!).
Note how the anchovies look in the water in the bottom pick. No wonder tan back bugs work so well!
Guys are picking up yellowtail and dorado on bait, but we didn't hook up this time.
Woke up at 3am this morning to hop in the car and race down to Marina del Rey to head out with Jeff.
Our plan was to run over to PV and see what was happening a bit out from shore. We'd both heard good reports out there, so figured it was a good starting point.
We got on the water at 4:30 and raced over there to try and get some greylight action.
Unfortunately, there wasn't much going on at all. No birds, the occasional small paddy with noone home, etc.
We kept running futher and further out and finally said screw it and ran all the way out to Catalina.
We came around the west side and it was like night and day. Birds everywhere, bait and fish busting the surface.
We managed some nice bonita right upon arrival.
Those things have some tug for their size even on a 10wt.
Jeff's boga'd at 8 and mine might have been a bit bigger, but no boga on that one.
There were some yellowtail chasing smaller bonita but no takers for us today.
Jeff had two come out of the depths to chase a small bonita he had online.
Jeff nailed a nice cuda.
No dorado sightings on our end.
Kept moving around catching calicos and moving through one massive school of mackerel slamming anchovies driving some into the boat.
Took about an hour skipping along in Jeff's boat to end a 75+mile day.
Amazing how things can be so different on two sides of an island. Definitely a calm nice day on the water.
Here's some pics.
-Paul
Bait on the surface
Bonita Bendo
Paul and a bonita
Jeff and a bonita
Jeff and a Cuda
Mackerel (notice the bait they were chasing in lower left corner)
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