The water and the fish are still there at the CR Pilar. We had water over 61, a fair number of jumpers, and even a little blue water still. Not the bright/light blue earlier but more blue than green in places. A lot of that crystal clear emerald green water too. Warm water and fish from 30-40 miles off the beach. We were 35 miles off the CR at the farthest Saturday (124 57). Lots of Porpoise out there this trip too. Haven't see any of those since early August. The jumpers didn't seem to be schooled up like earlier, just individual fish jumping kinda spread out in an area.
The fish still had small bait fish in em too (2-3 inches). Tried one of the small hoochies but it didn't seem to be the ticket.
We tried throwing Sardines (dead) when we hooked up a couple times and once when a jumper was just off the boat. Got picked up and hit 3 times and hooked up for a fes seconds the first time. Just couldn't stick one though on the bait. Not even sure it was Tuners grabbing the bait, coulda been Blues. It was too choppy to see the sharks out there.
Contrary to the posts made about switching over to fish vs squid baits this late, I had better luck on Tuna Clones last Saturday than I've had all year. Zuchini, Mex Flag and the hot one was a Tiger. One of the crew brought the tiger, I hadn't seen that color before. Bright red/orange back with black stripes and a bright yellow bottom half.
My 85 foot hand lines off the corners were also doing better than the long rods. I tried to run longer hand lines (130's) early and got a few fish but they kept picking up the rod lines where they went in the water. Wind and waves were working real well for tying the gear all up. I switched back to my standard 85 footers on the corners and no more tanlges.
Anywho... the old tried and true methods and gear seemed to be the trick on Saturday. Purp/Black and root beer brooms early, one of Petes homemade hoochie with purp and back feathers under it. Brighter clones after the sun got high. Cedar plugs in blue/white and mex flag got a few too. Oh- and a hex head with that weird color hoochie skirt Englunds has. It's like a mex flag under but with brownish purple on the top layer of skirt. edsr said it's worked real well for him too. It was really hot one day early in the year.
My theory about having to fish farther back on rough water days got blown this trip too. This is the first time I've been out in the snot when the hand lines picked up the majority of the fish. Even got one or 2 on a fairly short 50 footer down the center.
And of course...... I got SPOOLED
by somebody (name unkown and sight unseen). :shocked: :grin:
[ 09-29-2003, 10:23 AM: Message edited by: Miss B Haven ]
OceanBlue
Weather Vortex
I wasn't even looking for a forecast for this weekend. Mel and I had had a discussion about Sun-Tues this week being THE time to do some swordfishin. Shore 'nuff, looking good this week. No one here puttin' her mouth on the weather. Nuh-Uh! 'ceptin' to say that if a body had an oppty to go fishin' tomorrow, they'd be well advised to go fer it! 
uh, uh! 
Linear Mode
