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06-08-2016, 01:43 PM | #1 |
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a real fish report for a change
I hit Newport today, 6/8. The tide was as low as I've ever seen it. I was knee deep in black mud just to get my yak to float. I paddled out of the CG beach area to the main channel and cast a white zoom fluke on a 3/8 bullet head. Caught a calico on the first cast, then for the next hour and a half I caught a fish on every cast. It was crazy, maybe six keepers and the rest short, when the bite slowed down I decided to paddle up to the bait barge, so I trolled the jig and caught calicos and barracuda all the way up. Everyone up there was catching fish including a fly fisherman in a hobie I talked with. I caught my first halibut today, it was only a 10" fish but it was still a first and caught on the jig. I also caught a small sculpin. Then I paddled outside the bay but I didn't know where to go to look for rock fish so I went out about to the channel bouy but then I was lost for where to go so I turned around and headed back. All in all a great day on the water. I was loaded up and on the road by noon.
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06-08-2016, 04:47 PM | #2 |
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Nice Harry.
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06-08-2016, 04:52 PM | #3 |
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love days like that.
props for getting out and making it a great day on the water. |
06-08-2016, 04:59 PM | #4 |
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Great Job Harry,
That keeper Halibut will show up soon enough. If you have a fish finder with chartplotter i can send you my rockfish spot out of newport. Tasty fish to limit on.
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06-08-2016, 05:22 PM | #5 |
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Sal, my FF has gps and I can enter coordinates to go to. It's a Garmin 7sv. I used it for the first time today, I don't know what I was looking at but I'll figure things out. One of the two plugs from the transducer had come out and I didn't notice until I got back. I saw two guys heading out past the buoy but I couldn't catch them and I didn't want to follow them to jump on their spot. I forgot my vhf so I didn't want to go to far out alone. I need to make a check list so I quit forgetting things.
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06-08-2016, 10:29 PM | #6 |
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WTG, Harry! Glad you had such a great time.
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06-08-2016, 11:06 PM | #7 |
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Good job!! Love calico tacos!! 😃
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06-08-2016, 11:29 PM | #8 |
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Nice report! Got to love when fishing is so good that it becomes catching. Makes up for a lot of the slow days
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06-09-2016, 06:13 AM | #9 |
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I would love calico tacos also but for some reason I thought the bass had to be 15", so the bass that just about came to 15 I turned loose, I need to highlight my 14" mark so I remember. Doh.
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06-09-2016, 02:43 PM | #10 |
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06-09-2016, 02:47 PM | #11 |
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that and too many years chasing fresh water bass, I really felt bad for the guys in the skiff who had a 21" halibut. I knew my little 10" fish had to go back but how do you stretch a halibut an inch so you can take him home. What a mouthful of teeth that little halibut had, no way I was going to stick my thumb in his mouth.
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06-09-2016, 02:51 PM | #12 |
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