Fishing on the 6th

[wishamako1]

Left Safemarina at 7:00 A.M. thick fog greeted Shawn and me on the way out to make bait, seas were nice, caught plenty of sardines and off to 51, fog got pretty thick on the way there, it finally cleared out. arrived at 51 at 10:30 and saw the reel hard working another poart of the reef, as soon as we dropped I got hit pretty hard after a few sec onds we had a small yellowtail in tghe boat, we went back over that spot and I got hit by a bigger fish, after 5 minutes almost to the boat it got off, aging we went back and again I lost another fish, after that my luck stopped and Shawns kicked in, by changing spots he started catching all the fish he caught 5 whiteseabass 2 red snappers,whitefish, and I caught 2 goldspots, thats the way it goes, hadc a great time :lol:

 

[Stuart]

The fog was eerie. I told my fishing buddy Mark - "We'll pop out the other side in a few minutes and it will be sunny and not a cloud in the sky." Sure enough, it was true. Our day was similar - one 65 lb. black, a nice red snapper, some gold-spots. Had a white seabass on at the 43, but he didn't stay on. Good seeing everybody again!

Mark with his fish. Caught on the 1st drop within a minute or two on a live mack.

 

[ReelHard]

fog what fog. i guess the earlier you leave or should i say darker you cant see the fog. scott,dave,gabe and i arrived at the 51 at 730 and had smooth seas the whole way. unfortuantly that was not the case on the ride back. we got soaked and kind of beat up but not bad. we ended the day with 4 red snapper 2 sheep head and 34 gold spot. so we hit our limit. what a wonderful day of fishing.

 

[ReelHard]

here are pics. took me a while to figure out how to load them. liked the old way better

 

[pikeu68]

Congratulations to Art and Shawn on winning our mini fishing derby. Their 5 fish total of 87 pounds was enough to take the pot. It was great to see all of you out fishing this past weekend.

 

[moore_rb]

My buddy Trent and I had a pretty good "maiden voyage" on my boat (now christened L'Mante)

We found Safe Marina without any fuss thanks to Seadweller's directions, and put in at about high noon on Saturday after an uneventful trip down from the East Valley. Picked up some sardines on Sabiki's just outside the harbor and ended up fishing for about 3 hours on the 16-210 reef. I caught 4 goldspotted bass and Trent caught 2 Triggers and 3 Bass.

Back at the Marina at 6:00pm, and got to meet Dan (DMcauley), Doug (Reelhard) and Stuart and his buddy Mark (nice Blackie Mark!)-

Reelhard is truly a fishing machine- he and everyone on his boat were SOAKED from the ride in.

I think I saw WishaMako, but didn't get to introduce myself (next time Art)

Call me crazy, but we went ahead and launched on Sunday morning and went out and ran in the chop, not so much for the fishing but to check and see if my boat was propped properly for rougher water, because I noticed while we were coming in on Saturday that the engine felt like it was pushing a little too hard, so I put on a prop with 2" less pitch for Sunday and we ran out to La Pinta (with the wind and following seas), then back out to Pelican Point (against the wind in a heading sea) and the boat ran much better both ways.

We were never more than 1/2 mile from shore on Sunday, and I was sick as a dog all day being out in that slop. (Nature's best weight loss plan- fishing in rough seas)

The wind and chop layed down into a manageble 2 foot swell after noon so went over and threw jigs in the Rocks off Cholla Bay and loaded up with limits of Goldspots before heading in at 4:00.

All in all a very fun weekend on the boat-

 

[Shawno]

Fish Photos

It was really great to see all of the fishermen come out for the mini-tournament. I have been working overseas much of the last two years and don't get many chances to go fishing anymore ... although I think about it all the time. I was happy that we were able to find plenty of bait at the 16-mile reef. The wind picked up around noon and made the drift fishing a little more difficult that expected. Art had a wind sock that helped to keep us in the zone while drifting north across the deep reefs. We found that all of the whites were bunched up in one small area and were very line-shy. Almost all of the fish were caught on a 16 oz chrome diamond jig, my alltime favorite for this time of year.

We saw many magnificent Finback Whales working near the boat on Saturday, and it was another wonderful day out on the Sea of Cortez. Getting soaked on the ride back that afternoon wasn't a treat, but I'd do it again in a heartbeat.

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[Stuart]

Good meeting you, Robert! You will become an addict like the rest of us!

I avoid sloppy days. Maybe because I'm getting older and lazier. Or wiser? Generally, if it's really sloppy close in, it's going to be 2 to 3 times that once you head further out. You don't always get a good sense of what conditions are going to be (other than Buoyweather predictions) until you get out about 10-12 miles at the bait reefs. By then, you lose protection from the land mass and can determine how the wind and waves will affect the day. This is especially true at this time of the year when the prevailing winds are out of the N - NNW. Because Cholla protects much of Penasco in this wind direction, you get a really false sense of what the conditions are going to be until you get out there further.

Summer winds tend to be from the S - SSE in the morning and W - SSW in the afternoons. You'll know within minutes of leaving the harbor in these winds what the conditions will be like.

 

[don]

Looks like you fellas had a great time! Sure wish I could have been there. Doc says maybe by end of March I'll be able to pull on grouper.

 

[moore_rb]

If you guys happen to see this chump around the Marina, or at one of the restaurants, swing by and say "hi"