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Waverunner (Unregistered Guest)
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My last three trips (Monday, Tues and Friday), I caught salmon around the radar buoy 85 feet down between 150-180 feet of water. Green still the key color. Some bait was around radar, mostly mid-morning till 1:00 bite. A little outdated but I hope it helps. |
Anthony Ey (Pasogmc)
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Well we will be heading out of MB sunday morning to try and scare up some salmon. We know it will be windy in the afternoon. We will be on my buddies boat the "Sea Saw" 25' Davis. Anyone have any hot tips on where to go. Think we will try outside the rock and see what happens. |
HARRELL kIMBALL (Catmakai)
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Mel may have been right !! Just head that there were 9 Albacore carcasses seen in the dumpster at MB. Waiting further details. |
Melvin A. de la Motte, Jr. (Righttofish)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, July 17, 2004 - 3:50 pm: | |
Friends:
Lot of boats in the parking lot this morning at MB. Since I did not see them salmon fishing, I assume a big group went out exploring for tuna. Lets have some reports tonight from you guys on how you did.
We trolled for 3 hours for salmon near MB harbor entrance and didn't get a bite.
Mel. |
Jack Scarbrough (Valhalla)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, July 17, 2004 - 11:50 am: | |
Ran Thursday for LFT on a 255 out of Morro 30 miles before turning North found more of the same from the previous posts. Green water no tuna. Did meter salmon just outside the rock but could not get them to bite with a week attempt.
The bait looks was great. Buy lots of it, keep these guys in business.
Thought I'd include a picture of a fish I caught out of Eureka a couple of weeks ago. 40lbs |
Bob Hather (Windfall)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, July 16, 2004 - 7:04 pm: | |
I was out 25 mi on a 275 from Morro Bay and as Harrell said, the water was as green as salmon water. There is so much life out there that we had to keep dodging the whales. Again like last year the albacore are in easy range both north and south of us. At 13 mi today the temp jumped from 56 to 60 and stayed at 60 the rest of the way. I tried muching the bait balls on the inside for salmon and used the great live bait from Virg's for halibut in 30-60 ft of water for nothing. Still a good time just being on the water.
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HARRELL kIMBALL (Catmakai)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, July 16, 2004 - 2:49 pm: | |
SeaWIFS:
That water west of Morro Bay was checked out this morning by 2 or 3 boats and found to be green and dirty with no Albacore yet, but it was loaded with bait, birds and whales. Yesterday's SeaWIFS image showed it to be dirty and green. An on scene report confirmed it. This gives us a data point on that system for future use. |
Bill McGadden (Reel_magic)
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salmon bite is red hot out of moss and santa cruz.
fished yesterday for twenty mins. for limit
good luck |
Jim Chandler (Onporpoise)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, July 15, 2004 - 7:45 pm: | |
We were thinking of going out of Avila or Morro Bay on Saturday, just not sure what to go after.
I watch the posting all the time, but I haven’t seen much about Salmon lately.
Its to early in the season for me to go looking for LFT in a 20 Ft. Seaswirl with about a 40 Mi. range, one way, on a good day.
I live in Santa Ynez , so another option is , Go out of SB to Santa Cruz Island and try for WSB, Or Halibut.
Anything happing up yonder please let me know.
I was just thinking, what a great life when you can’t decide where to go fishing.
Thanks for the help, Jim
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HARRELL kIMBALL (Catmakai)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, July 15, 2004 - 3:37 pm: | |
SST/Weather
There was a better SST last night at 11:45 that looks real good. There is a good break 12 miles west of Morro Bay that is connected all the way down to the Rodriguez. The patchy water has filled in pretty solid and if there are any Albacore down at the San Juan or Rodriguez they could be headed our way or maybe already here. Usually we get our first fish from the southwest and so far this year there has not been any solid plumes of warm water coming in from that direction and the boats that have checked out the Donut/Elbow areas have not found any albacore.
The weather has been near calm all day at the PSL,PA and SM weather buoys even though the forecast was 15-25 ! The forecast for the next few days is still 15-25 so who knows. |
Jack Story (Minnow)
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Levi501, bait supply is usually anchovie/sardine mix, which can be purchased at Virg's bait dock, or you can make your own with a throw net. Currently there are lots of top smelt in the bay with fish chasing them on incoming and outgoing tides. Try fishing between the eel grass and the channel, by the moored sail boats, or on the flats. Depth ranges 8-15ft, Channel depth 20+ ft, Good Luck, Minnow..... |
Steve Hendricks (Fishmaster)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, July 15, 2004 - 11:22 am: | |
I was just up in Oregon for a week. Fished out of Depoe Bay for 11 Tuna on sunday. Closest fish was 23 miles out, but we worked out to 40. Fish were between 15 and 30. Fished 63 degree water all day. Some guys caught 70 yesterday out of Depoe. Warm water is only 10 miles out!!!
We also caught a 56" halibut on Saturday. What a monster.
Hopefully the fish will come in closer here. In the mean time, head up to Oregon.
lat,
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HARRELL kIMBALL (Catmakai)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, July 15, 2004 - 7:25 am: | |
Wide open albacore bite out of Oregon !! According to some reports that I have read the jig boats are getting as many as 70 fish in 3 hours. Ave size 15-18 lbs.
We had a wide open SST last eve but I don't see any good looking breaks except up at the Davidson. Even the water off Monterey has moved out.
Should be a break in the wind Sun-Mon for anyone wanting to go prospecting for tuna. Never know what is out there untill you go look. |
Levi villegas (Levi501)
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hello everyone first time post. Glad i stumbled onto this site. was fishing out of psl thursday
in my float tube where the creek empties out at avila, maybe 15 yards off shore. 1 keeper hali 10# and 4 shorties off of a 1 oz white scampi. looks like i might have to run up to morro bay some time this week any suggestions on hot spots there in the bay?bait? |
Peter Marquez (Vanajed4)
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1988 Yamaha 150. 1100 hours. Needs a remote control connector. Runs excellent.
$1500.00 |
Efren (Unregistered Guest)
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I have a 260 mercruiser outdrive. Good top half. Salvageable lower half. I could use about $150.00 for fuel and beer. You may contact me at (805)331-5415. |
Ryan "Kip" Newton (The_marjean)
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My grand daughter "Booge" and her first salmon. She didn't want to put her finger in the gill for the photo. It was a little rough yesterday but she had a good time. |
Tim Mohawk (Tailchaser)
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Might want to re-think running offshore this week.
http://weather.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/fmtbltn.pl?file=forecasts/marine/coast al/pz/pzz670.txt |
Jack Valhalla (Unregistered Guest)
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Runnin for LFT on Thu/Fri anyone else going out of Morro?
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Jack Story (Minnow)
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Fished for flatties over the weekend, caught one 12# fish Sat. by the Cayucos Pier on dead bait, and one 8# by the San Simeon Pier on live bait. Both fish came out of 8-10ft of water. Worked several areas both days from 40ft to the beach. Seen four fish come out of the bay Sat. and one 22# fish come out of the bay Sun., all on live bait. |
Wes (Slotroller)
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This is the average size of fish we took out of Morro Bay last week. They're getting the big boys a little North of us, wonder if they'll find their way down here?
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Roger King (Fishtales)
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Stacey-
Thanks for the info |
Stacey Meacham (Stacey)
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Bodean,
Thanks for the post, I’ll buy some needles and carry them with me on my friends boat. I was ignorant about venting before this weekend. I appreciate your input.
Stacey.
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Melvin A. de la Motte, Jr. (Righttofish)
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Friends:
Last night I bar-b-qued a nice fillet of that "light pink" colored salmon that we caught on Friday. I fixed it the same way I usually do to see if there was a change in taste. It was great. Tasted fine. So, I would conclude that the lighter colored flesh does not effect the taste. One man's opinion.
Mel. |
HARRELL kIMBALL (Catmakai)
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Latest SST
Terrafin just posted another picture and this time it shows our whole area. It was shot at 3:45 this am. The Elbow (35:00-122:00) area looks good and since it was an early morning picture the temps won't be inflated by the sun. Right now it looks like the only game in town unless you want to go 90+ miles. With the wind blowing again it is all academic anyway.
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Ryan "Kip" Newton (The_marjean)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, July 11, 2004 - 11:19 am: | |
Pluto?
Thanks for the report. I'm not sure where the red lite is. My grand daughter is down for a week and we're going out tomarrow (monday). Got lots of green stuff. This is my first year here to fish salmon. Mostly chase tuna and rock fish. Last week (wednesday) I did an exploration for tuna inside 50 miles. Took a 220 out of the MB and found everything right, temp, bait, birds but no lft. We fished sign from 30 to 54 miles and nothing. Great boat ride, flattttttttttt conditions. I need my fresh omegas :-) |
Rory Forsythe (Pluto)
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My buddy and I went out for the Salmon on Sat. and caught our limit. All were caught on GREEN stuff, flashers and hoochies. stick with the green. Green, green, green. Any color, as long as it is GREEN.
We were a couple of miles South of the red light in 140ft of water and 70-80ft deep.
All of our fish had that pale color flesh. Does it taste the same? |
bodean (Unregistered Guest)
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about air bladder bleeding, us live fishermen have been doing this for years. needles can be purchased at your local feed and supply store, youll need 14 guage x 1&1/2" needle. the seringe isnt nessesary and its ok to push their stomachs back in during the bleeding process |
HARRELL kIMBALL (Catmakai)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, July 11, 2004 - 7:28 am: | |
SST
Finally got a good SST shot from Morro north last evening and should get a wide open image later today. UCSB AVHRR posted an open shot of our whole area at midnight. The TERRAFIN evening picture shows the best area to be west of Pt. Lopez about 80nm from Morro Bay. The UCSB shot has an area of interest west of Avila at the 122 line. Will need TERRAFIN to get a good look at it. |
Stacey Meacham (Stacey)
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I learned something new today, Swim Bladder venting. The two sites below explain the process.
http://www.dehooker4arc.com/FSG%20Vent%20Tool.htm
http://georgiamagazine.com/outdoors/fishing/deflate.htm
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HARRELL kIMBALL (Catmakai)
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Stacey:
Here is a "visible" image site but it only shows when it is clearing out. It lets you know that there will be an SST shot coming later that day or night. I don't know of any long range marine layer forecast.
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/satellite/1km/Oxnard/VIS1LAX.GIF
I have heard more reports this morning of salmon being caught at Avila. All little ones. Virges has a boat out looking for albacore but have not heard any report yet. |
Stacey Meacham (Stacey)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, July 10, 2004 - 11:30 am: | |
Harrell,
It’s been a while since we’ve had a good terrafin sst. Is there a source for cloud cover/fog forecasts? I’m hoping to get a good picture soon so that we can explore for lft.
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Melvin A. de la Motte, Jr. (Righttofish)
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Friends:
Thanks for the info on the lighter colored flesh in these salmon we have been catching. Went out yesterday late ... got on the water at 11:30 a.m. We hooked up in the first 10 minutes for a 25" salmon and then didn't get another one until 1:45 p.m. That was it. It was a glorious day on the water. Warm, calm, and clear blue sky. Again, the salmon had very light colored flesh. Caught both fish on green crocks at 85 feet down in about 150 feet of water. Lots of bait, but the salmon were not on the bite.
Last week I posted a picture of my boat-partner Bob Wendt with two nice red rock cod from the last day of rockfish angling (June 30th). Here is a picture of him with 2 of our salmon from Thursday. Congrats to Patriot Sportfishing on catching 18 salmon yesterday ... got to do something while we wait for LF to move closer to shore.
Mel.
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HARRELL kIMBALL (Catmakai)
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Looks like the salmon moved from Morro down to Avila. We were out there with Waverunner today and they had the only fish we heard of but the Patriot out of Avila had 17 salmon today.
Krill is what turns the salmon flesh red. The salmon farmers use the same chemical in their fish food that is in krill to give the farm raised salmon the red flesh. Some rumors say that they dye the flesh but that is probably just propaganda by ??? like the ad by the tuna cannerys wayback when : "Guaranteed not to turn pink in the can"
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Waverunner (Unregistered Guest)
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Fished Morro Bay Friday. Got 3 salmon and lost one. 80-90 feet down in 170-180 feet of water near the radar buoy. All fish caught between 11:30 and 12:30. Green and white hootchie and green crock. I thought the salmon were pinker when they ate crill and whiter when they ate anchovies. All of our fish had bellies full of anchovies and the salmon had a more cream/white flesh. |
Pete A. (Aloha_kai)
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Mel, the flesh-color topic came up on another fishing site (Coastside) a while back, and they said there that this was mainly controlled by diet. I am unable to find that string again to confirm exactly what was said, but seem to remember that the lighter color was from feeding on krill. |
Stacey Meacham (Stacey)
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Go with 80# mono and that way you’ll be assured you can horse-em in quickly and you can direct tie without a leader.
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unHookt (Unregistered Guest)
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Thanks Stacey - are you recommending that I rig the 113 with 60# mono? |
Stacey Meacham (Stacey)
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Unhookt,
Your rods and reels should be fine. On a party boat 60# would be the minimum for tolling (I usually run 80#) and I would recommend spooling your bait reel with 20-25#. Good luck on your trip.
Stacey
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Melvin A. de la Motte, Jr. (Righttofish)
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Friends:
Myself and friends ate one of those salmon we caught yesterday. Interesting flesh color. Was very, very light pink and was WHITE by time it was done cooking. Looked like a rockfish by the color. Is this because they have been eating something different? All four fish had this very light color.
Mel. |
unHookt (Unregistered Guest)
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Rig Setup Opinions
What do you think about the following rig setups for fishing albacore aboard one of the party boats out of Morro (Virg's) or PSL (Patriot)?:
Primary/Trolling:
SENATOR 113H, 50# Berkeley Big Game, Penn Boat Rod 6'6" TROLLING COMBO
Backup/Stand-up:
Penn Jigmaster 500, 40# Berkeley Big Game, Daiwa 7' 0" Sealine X Boat (Heavy Action 20-60# Model SLXB701HR)
Am I going out there tomorrow night with adequate tackle? |
Bob Hather (Windfall)
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I just spoke to Mel de la Motte and he caught four salmon from between 1:00 and 2:00pm today in 145 feet of water about 5 mi north of the rock. The fish were small 8-12 pounders. All caught on something green. This week the only albacore boat I heard from went out about 70 mi and trolled all day for nothing. |
Wes (Slotroller)
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Went out of Morro Bay Wednesday with Captain Squater on the Sea Marmot for 3 Salmon by 2:00pm. We had 1 on a rotary killer the other 2 (and a big 'Ole shake) on a water melon Echip behind a big green flasher. We fished in 180 -120 feet down at 75-110 on the wire. There were about 6 or 8 others out there, all friendly and sharing tips and info. That sure makes for a good day on the water, thanks to all of you!
Our fish were pups, when do the big boys get here? How late in the year does the salmon bite go off in Morro bay? |
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To Sour Grapes - Hey Tony, did you catch those nice halibut out of PSL or Morro Bay? How deep of water? Maybe this is a good indicator of things to come. Tight lines & sharp hooks! |
Tony Domingos (Sour_grapes)
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Fished Salmon tues. afternoon- No luck, but heard a few boats did OK. Moved into the beach and caught 3 nice halibut (18#, 2x14#) Ocean was beautiful. There was bait everywhere and we probably saw 25 whales. |
Wes (Slotroller)
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I heard the squid were out today, anyone try for white sea bass? |
Bill Miller (Fishing_bear)
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Well, Waverunner beat us again. Caught two salmon - one on the infamous green and white hoochie and the other on a green apex. Not the best fishing of the year, but a great day on the water. Thanks Waverunner for leting us know how and where you were hitting them (King Willie)- that's how fishermen are supposed to share info. |
Waverunner (Unregistered Guest)
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Fished Morro Bay on Monday, limits of salmon (4 fish)by 9:00, green flasher, green and white hootchie at 85 feet down in 180 feet of water just outside of the rock. Lots of bait, birds, seals and pelicans. Had three other hook-ups. Flat ocean. |
Joe Koenig (Tex)
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Anybody find any good halibut patches?
I am looking to go out on Monday and bounce around. I have done well in the back bay, just don't know the spots outside of the harbor. Any help on a location would be much appreciated.
Thanks guys,
This site is Awesome! |
Mark E Hilliard (Ms_mackey)
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Fun day out of Morro Bay went for Halibut got 1 (great bait from the Billy Boy). Threw back at least 2 limits of rockfish. Caught about 15 lings 2 that were 25-26 inches. Heard Virgs boats had 2-6 Halibut each. The salmon bite picked up too. Seemed like everyone fishing for them caught at least one some caught up to 6. Heard a commercial guy did real well one 25+. A friend Byron Hallett went out caught 1 Halibut and 3 salmon bunch of short bites and one got away(oops). Saw the Ghetto Child catch one in front of us while we were mooching. Yea I know but we left the downriggers at home and did not bring any 2 pound balls. This weekend we Ms.Mackey/Hallettini were going tuna fishing. But the weather did not look so good for today maybe Monday. The rest happened spur of the moment. The salmon were being caught on green flasher white hoochie, white flasher green hoochie, green flasher bait, green flasher green hoochie, green croc(and more combos i'm sure). 160-200 feet of water at 60-100 feet in front of the rock. Huge bait balls, whales, seals, otters. Go get um. We saw tuna killer at the launch ramp said he was going to kill some looking forward to his post for info. |
Melvin A. de la Motte, Jr. (Righttofish)
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Friends:
Nice to see pix from San Diego, but we have great fishing right here on the Central Coast ... if they would only let us fish. Rockfish angling is closed month of July. Here is a picture of my partner Bob Wendt with two of the dozen nice reds we caught up by the Piedras Blancas lighthouse on the last day of June. Now lets get those LF to move in closer to shore.
Mel. |
John Carvour (Agent_86)
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Its wide open out of SD @390. We were plugged by 8:00 am thurs. |
jocelyn jodar (Jocelyn)
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Just talked to Doug on the ICHIBAN (6:15pm) they have 12 LFT, 90 miles out at the Davidson, the weather sounds like it's no picnic out there, everyone wants to come home to dry out. They are going to fish until dark, should be in by 4 or 5 am Saturday. Maybe they'll find some HOTSPOT on the way in....it's still early (July 2)
Tight Lines
Jocelyn |
HARRELL kIMBALL (Catmakai)
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Here is the link to the ocean color site. Haven't got enough feedback from boats in an area where there has been a good image to know what the colors mean yet. I think blue or green indicates clean water.
http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi/seawifs_subreg_l2.pl |
David Shahrabani (Windstone)
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Thinking of trying an Albacore run Saturday. Not quite sure of the weather yet, seems to be changing quickly. Will monitor 68 if we are out. |
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Thurs- July 1st fished the Psl bouy area out to 22 miles. Hit 59-60 degree water at 18mi.
Some birds, whales, mola mola, but no albacore. Wind was 8-10 knts from the west and sea choppy/slop. Further we went out colder it was. Made a few stops after metering bait but nothing. Guess we'll just have to be patient and hope for more warm water to move in. Gerard |
Stacey Meacham (Stacey)
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I looked at the terrafin and Harrell’s recommended numbers look good for a starting point. Has anyone explored this area?
Harrell, Would you please post more detailed instructions for finding the web pge for our area that shows water color. Thanks, SDM
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Mark E Hilliard (Ms_mackey)
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When my dad and I went down to Virgs they told us 12 albies 1 bluefin and they could not contact them so they must be 70+ miles out. This was at 4:45. John and Michelle way to go. Anyone planning on Saturday we are? |
HARRELL kIMBALL (Catmakai)
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Virge's phone message at 5:30pm:
12 albacore to 30 lbs. no other details until tomorrow am. The report said they will be fishing late. |
HARRELL kIMBALL (Catmakai)
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Marine layer is not gone yet ! I looked at too early of a visible satellite shot.
Virge's has the Fiesta out today looking for LFT ! Hope John finds them closer than the 70 miles he found them last time. |
HARRELL kIMBALL (Catmakai)
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SST/Tuna water/weather:
There was a pretty good SST shot at 5pm last evening. Lots of 60+ water but mostly patchy with no really pronounced breaks like the water up in the Monterey area.I think the best place to start would be 35:20 and 121:30 and then west or southwest. That would be about 40 miles due west of Morro.
The forecasts have changed and the wind is coming up today and is forecast to blow into Sunday. Should be down again Mon-Wed. The marine layer is gone so we should get some good SST images. |
Tony Domingos (Sour_grapes)
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Fished out front of the rock for salmon today. No luck, although one commerceial had a few fish, one was 35 lbs. He had 8 that were sport legal but not commercial. 200 feet of water 2 miles off the rock. There was a lot of bait in that area, and none anywhere else. Fish were coming at 120 feet on the down rigger. We caught 1 halibut at cayucos in 30 feet of water. Live bait was very nice stuff!
Tony |
HARRELL kIMBALL (Catmakai)
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SST/Tuna water
The marine layer opened up out of Morro bay to the 122:00 line so we should get a good Terrafin shot tonight sometime. I just looked at the coastwatch 15:30 shot and also the latest USCSB AVHRR shot and they really look good! There is 60+ water due west of Morro about 30 miles and it is connected out past the 122:00 line.(which is where the fog starts) Need the Terrafin image to get accurate detail. Based on what I see right now and if I were going tomorrow I woulds start at 35:15 and 121:10 and work west. |
Bob Hather (Windfall)
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Fished this afternoon at Buchon again on this last day of rockcod season. Caught a 8lb red and a 36" ling. The best water for a tuna run now looks like 38mi on a 283 heading from Morro Bay. Some salmon were caught north of Morro Bay today. Most of the fish were too small for the commercials.
Bob |
Mike Moore (Skipjack_legacy)
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4th of July Albies Close? Looks like it! New SST reveals a huge swathe of 61-degree water that extends from below the PSl to above Cambria. Could be loaded. Aprox 20 to 30-miles offshore. |
HARRELL kIMBALL (Catmakai)
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SST/Hot water:
Last night's SST shot was clear out to about 30 miles and spotty elsewhere. The buoy was back down to 57 degrees this morning so that 61 degree plume water appears to have been some kind of an anomoly. It almost touched the beach at Buchon and was not connected to the outside. It doesn't look like tuna water but there is only one way to know for sure and that is to go check it out.
The area off Monterey is holding fish as some were caught there yesterday.
We checked the area from Pismo to Mussel Rock yesterday for WSB and halibut for nada. No bait, no birds and no fish ! |
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We had a great day at Buchon for rockcod today. Limits of rockcod included a 9.5 lb red and one 31" ling. The water was flat and sun baked to 59.5 on the surface. If the SST looks good for Thusday I might run for tuna. Ken Scott is selling live squid at his dock in Morro Bay. The white seabass are up by the PB Lighthouse with the squid boats. |
HARRELL kIMBALL (Catmakai)
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Hot Water !! The PSL buoy hit 61 degrees at 2pm today. No satellite shot so don't know what it means yet. |
Michael Gorgita (Gdoggsb)
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Jim ..the abalone farm is about 3 miles up the coast from cayucos pier, you will see it on the side of the bluff just above villa creek, start there!!! And post your score as I might venture up for some pink meat friday. |
Jim Chandler (Onporpoise)
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I was thinking about going out on Wednesday for salmon.
I haven’t heard a bunch of good things, other than some caught a few miles out of Morro Rock
I think we will just go buy Tony’s call, butt I’m not sure where the abalone farm is.
Any help would appreciated.
Jim Chandler/ Onporpoise
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alan highvoltage (Unregistered Guest)
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I have two easi troll manual downriggers with 150ft of 150lb. test cable. They have the original 2ft. boom and extra 32" booms. I have gimbal mounts and swivel bases for them. I want $165.00 each obo please e-mail me for pictures or questions |
rog (Unregistered Guest)
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does anyone know if Deke is in operation? |
Mark E Hilliard (Ms_mackey)
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Hey Fred nothing like the one you caught or the 28 pounder my mom caught monday but still legal and on a slow day we felt pretty good. 8-12 pounds. Got a limit of blues on hoochies and crocks which didn't help. NO SILVERS (ha ha)
Davis Cortez 22 |
FRED VALOV (Paco)
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Hey, Ms. Mackey, any size to those fish? We got a 34.11 on Wed.(scale weighed). Want to catch another slug next week (Wed. or Thur.) |
Mark E Hilliard (Ms_mackey)
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Went out of Morro Bay today caught 3 salmon with my dad and his friend David Negranti. Green flashers green hooties and a white hootie. Saw a nice halibut at the cleaning station and they had 4.Another fisherman we know caught one and lost one in the bay. Both said the bait they got from the Billy Boy was great. The fish we caught came in 60-85 feet of water in 180 feet off Cayucos. |
