a pair of jacks

[salty pirate]

la jolla 8/18/12
not the biggest fish but thought I should post a timely report since I get so much info from here.

got em in about 90' of water, temp was 72, air temp hot, visability not that good, both cought on spanish mac's. cuda's are out in full force so make lot's of bait!

again sorry for the yard shot.

[lowprofile]

shoulda flylined them back out.

nice tacos.

[kayakhunter]

Oh no.....the rats are back.

[jorluivil]

No pleasing the crowds

Originally Posted by jorluivil

No pleasing the crowds

Amen

[danjor]

First glance thought they were rainbow trout. Not worth killing them in my opinion

[seriola_killer]

Hmmm... Let's see here...

Yakker drives a long distance to have the chance to get into some fish, then he posts a timely, factual report (the same report that far too many on this site have bitched incessantly about NOT GETTING) with depth, bait, water temp, and he get's critiqued about it.

[Aaron&Julie]

Originally Posted by danjor

First glance thought they were rainbow trout. Not worth killing them in my opinion

Hey, congratulations, don't listen to negative feedback. You caught a couple of YTs and that's good in our book.

Small fish equals better eating. And even those small guys can put up a tussle. Beats being skunked.

Besides, the experts say the big ones are the better breeders, so why throw the small ones back?

Yellowtail reproduce just fine, so taking some that size isn't going to hurt ANYTHING no matter what anyone else says. In fact, the tuna boats live and die with yellowtail that size at times.

Enjoy your meals. Good job, and thanks for the timely report. It's more than what some of the negative crowd will do for the rest of us fishermen/women.

[bus kid]

congrats on the catch.

Originally Posted by jorluivil

No pleasing the crowds

and thats why some choose not to post reports, not that I know any of them.

crap just read thru 3 pages of this thread and burned the dang popcorn again!

[Iceman]

maybe we need to weed out all the chest pounding trophy hunters and keep the "fishermen" who get it.

Originally Posted by salty pirate

la jolla 8/18/12
not the biggest fish but thought I should post a timely report since I get so much info from here.

got em in about 90' of water, temp was 72, air temp hot, visability not that good, both cought on spanish mac's. cuda's are out in full force so make lot's of bait!

again sorry for the yard shot.

Is that a flare gun under your front hatch?

[steveooo]

My wife tells me that size doesn't matter

Legal catch, enough fish to make a couple meals, a double on to make the drive worth it Congrats

[Hightide]

If DFG calls it a legal size then it's a keeper.
Nice catch bro

[taggermike]

Well done with the double. And thanks for the timely report. I love YT. It's great to see other year classes move in to our area. Huge home guards are great but a show of smaller fish is good news for the resource and the future. Those smaller YT, don't call them "rats", are often ready biters and lots of fun. Now I can start bringing a lighter out fit with out worrying about getting my ass kicked. Mike

[CurtyL]

I'd have released those two, but thats just me. Not sayin anything. I hope they tasted good. Man it's been a slow summer,. Fish on..

PS it's not hate to disagree with keeping these size YT's, it's class. It's being there and having done that. But thats just my opinion....which can't even buy a cup of coffee. I get it.

Originally Posted by CurtyL

it's class.

Your location is "where the college girlz r"
You just scream class act. "Been there, done that" I throw the college girls back.

[October]

Originally Posted by Drake

I'm sure you'll be sorely missed. The kayak community will mourn your loss.

i love when someone deletes their post but the quoted evidence is still there.

for a moment, i thought this was a site sent from God himself. No trolls? No d bags? How can this be true!?

then this dude proved me wrong.... ah well. Watch out for his wake everyone. we have a badass here

[Fiskadoro]

Originally Posted by CurtyL

I'd have released those two, but thats just me. Not sayin anything. I hope they tasted good. Man it's been a slow summer....

".....and the Bronze goes to......."

Actually fishing has been fantastic this summer, maybe you just need to get some time on the water.

As to the size, those small ones make terrific sashimi. If it was a slow day and larger fish were not around I might take one or two but I'd be tempted to slice one up on the water.

This debate reminds me of something that happened years ago.

We were fishing a skiff off of Redondo during El Nino~ looking for Dorado near the ship channel and found a paddy loaded with hundreds of tiny Yellows 10 to 18 inches long. By far the smallest yellows I've seen, and I've never seen so many in one place, it was like a huge micro yellowtail baitball.

It was slow day flat calm and we had not found any other fish, so we broke out our bait outfits and started catching them on 4 pound spinning gear. Totally wide open, just catch and release a total blast but we did keep a few that swallowed the hook. Pretty soon we see the Redondo Special a sportboat that was also looking for Dorado coming our way.

We fired up and moved hoping they wouldn't find that paddy but they did anyway, and they just slaughtered them catching more of them then we could of counted. Needless to say it kind of pissed us off.

A few days later we went out again and caught maybe three Dorado in the channel off paddies, and since we ended up near the west end of Catalina we decided to anchor up at Arrowhead point and fish them a second day.

In the morning I woke up, started tossing the dead dines out of the bait tank, when suddenly there was a big splash off the stern. I looked over the side and in the crystal clear Cat water saw a huge school of tails in the 10 to 15 lbs class. Wide open doesn't do it justice. My then girlfriend Jenny who had no idea how to fish caught maybe half a dozen just hooking baits on 40 pound, and dangling them out on three feet of line and watching the yellows smash them right in front of her.

I have no idea how many we kept. After a while my buddy and I just went to Iron and released them. The limit was ten a piece. We filled our ice chests and then the fish hold. Then we just sat around drinking beer tossing dines in the water watching the show as the fish chased them around the boat. On the way back we caught and released several more Dorado, just an amazing trip.

Later I posted a report of our trip online there were some bashers that said stupid things like guys like us were going to ruin Yellowtail fishing forever , others that knew what was going on and had a real concept of just how many fish had come up from Mexico were like: "Yeah Dude!!! Epic fishing!!! Congrats!!!"

The reply I remember most though was from a guy who was obviously stoked and said he'd just had an epic trip too. Turns out he was on the Redondo Special the day they found our paddy, and to him that trip was amazingly epic. They might of been small but to him wide open yellows were wide open yellows, if you get my drift, and all he saw was wide open fishing for good eating fish.

It really made me think. Ultimately though our trip was more respectable since we had better quality fish, those guys on the special taking home sacks of firecracker yellows probably did not do any more damage to the resource then we did, and considering how rarely most of those guys had caught yellows to them their day was probably just as epic if not more so then ours.

Everyone only sees their particular perspective. For me something like seeing guys taking little Threshers under ten feet seems kinda stupid and sick, but to them it's a big deal, and maybe the best fishing they ever had.

Small butts, little yellows, a just legal seabass, may seem like nothing to some but to others they are personal bests or even trophies. Everyone likes to catch big fish, everyone likes to show them off, but not everyone can consistently catch them. The idea here is to encourage others, not give them a hard time or say their fish don't measure up in some ways.

In that light as long as laws are not broken, I'd say lighten up. It's just two fish, no doubt he ate them, and it's just kayak fishing not the some rod and reel Olympics

[THE DARKHORSE]

You Temecula fish killer, you.


Boy, I haven't seen one of these in a while. That comment's two fold. Directed towards the grade of fish and some of the replies on this here post.

Anyway,it's cool to see. That grade of fish is a direct result to the ridiculously warm water hanging right off the Coast.

Just to give some perspective for everyone on the outside looking in (from a guy who's on the water five days a week): I haven't seen any fish this size caught in La Jolla---in a few years. Not one. Being the betting man I am, I'd say, these fish are from a paddy that slammed into the beach. I'd also be willing to bet that same paddy had Dorado alongside those smaller grade tails.

Regardless, congrats on catching a couple beautiful fish.

I'm certainly not about to break out the Bass-outfits, but even a five pound Yellowtail will kick your butt. For a spell anyway...

[Fiskadoro]

Originally Posted by THE DARKHORSE

That grade of fish is a direct result to the ridiculously warm water hanging right off the Coast....

No doubt those fish are up from Mexico just like the Dorado, and with these warm water conditions you could easily run into huge schools of them. It's not like taking them will have any impact on our fishing down the road.

I'm just waiting for someone to post the first LJ Dorado this year. Last time I saw water this warm we caught some off El Segundo

I've a friend with a skiff that found a paddy holding them less then six miles from the point last week. You might want to reconsider that bass gear. One thing about dorado is they can be pretty line shy at times. He caught a few, but he said they only bit on 15lb fluoro, and I've seen days were you had to drop to 12lb to get bit when they come all the way up here.

Jim