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Mike Blackstone (Blackie)
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Post Number: 142
Registered: 8-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, October 11, 2005 - 8:03 am: | |
BOB
Do we even know weather DFG looked at the fish counters reports? I fished a lot with VIRGS this year and I will say there was a person on board every trip taking a tally , measurements, weights and so on, what the hell do they do with this info, throw it away.
Also I think the licence fees are something that needs to be looked at , I bet most of the fisherman and women that post on this site dont go near the fresh water , so they need to go back to the old system of fresh and saly water ,since we only fish five months out of the year , and that doesnt count the weather factor .
I know our CAMBRIA fishing club will be putting the boats away for awhile, our PRES was at the last stake holders meeting , im sure he will have some bad news on the areas that the fuzzy fish lovers feel we have overfished.
OH well I guess thats what we get for living in the GREAT STATE OF ARNOLD.
Sorry just venting this morning.
Blackie/Sr |
nicholas kilday (Nick_k)
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Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, October 10, 2005 - 8:56 pm: | |
so how was the bite at lopez? is it worth driving there yet? |
Bob Hather (Windfall)
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Post Number: 158
Registered: 8-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, October 10, 2005 - 8:55 pm: | |
The Terrafin picture looks like I should wait a few days for the warmer water to come in a little closer after this last blow. There is some 53 degree water as far out as 60 mi now. My spelling is the worst so I'll see if I can add a spell check function to fishreports so no one has to get embarrast about their learning disability. Thanks Harrel for your valuable help. CCFCC is very disapointed with our rockfish closures after only five months given that we didn't reach our fish quotas last year after fishing nine months and we contributed our on board catch survey that indicated a very healthy fishery on the Central Coast. We've put DFG on notice of our concerns so please stay tuned.
Bob Hather |
bob may (Bodean)
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Post Number: 28
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, October 10, 2005 - 8:52 pm: | |
my son was at lopez lake and noticed a mountain lion 30 ft. from him.... im sure it will be posted there. It occured near the launch. |
Mike Green (Caster)
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Post Number: 35
Registered: 12-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, October 10, 2005 - 6:58 pm: | |
Blackie, don't sweat the spelling.
ys thr ws a lot o klp. hd to mve th lre a lt.
HA HA. The main thing is, we keep posting. Do you know any freshwater fishermen? ask them to post here too. I did last year, nobody spanked me for being a trouter!A few people resonded, I learned a few things and I caught more fish! Good Luck to all! Mike Green |
Mike Blackstone (Blackie)
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Post Number: 141
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, October 10, 2005 - 6:16 pm: | |
THANKS HARRELL;
I new you would have the answer .
I have run out of honeydews and need to catch some fish the surf perch wont break loose , but they bite better in DEC .
My brother sent me a video of his last fishing trip to PRIEST Lake IDAHO WOW 20 fish in four days all nice MACS make me want to go north except the WIFE says no way its COLD up there,
oh well I guess we will try the islands and take HARRELLS advise.
Blackie |
HARRELL kIMBALL (Catmakai)
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Post Number: 365
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, October 10, 2005 - 6:08 pm: | |
Blackie;
You can get a really good fishing map for the Channel Islands/ Ventura/SB area in most of the tackle stores down that way. I got mine at Hook Line and Sinker in Goleta. Fish n Map co.is the name of the map maker. It has lat lon for fishing locations, reefs, rocky areas, depth contours and it is waterproof. It also has all the MPA's marked. |
HARRELL kIMBALL (Catmakai)
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Post Number: 364
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, October 10, 2005 - 5:57 pm: | |
Bob:
The wind has come down nicely but the swell has not. In fact it has come up a little on some of the buoys. 8-9 ft at 8-9 sec (apd) and is probably pretty lumpy which means slow going. I would get up and check the buoys in the morning and if they are down to around 6 ft and 10 sec APD then it might be worth a shot. We cancelled a trip to Santa Rosa Island tomorrow just because of the swell. Good luck if you go !
Thanks Dave & Darby ! I enjoy doing it even if it is like betting on the long shot in every race. |
Mike Blackstone (Blackie)
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Post Number: 139
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, October 10, 2005 - 5:30 pm: | |
MY SPELLING SUCKS SORRY CASTER!!!!!!!! |
Mike Blackstone (Blackie)
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Post Number: 138
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, October 10, 2005 - 5:28 pm: | |
DAVE ;
Would you supply some # for the areas you feel are the best? We a have been kicking the idea around of heading down and fishing the weekends , where do you launch? Can you overnight on your boat or is there a problem sleeping in a camper in the lot?
Bored in atascadero.
Blackie/Sr
Mike Ggeen;
At least you got a keeper , was there a lot of kelp in the water ? |
Bob Hather (Windfall)
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Post Number: 157
Registered: 8-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, October 10, 2005 - 5:22 pm: | |
I'm still deciding on a tuna run for tomorrow but the weather looks marginal. Any thoughts from any one?
Bob Hather |
Roger King (Fishtales)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, October 10, 2005 - 12:16 pm: | |
Free NOAA weather radio could go the way of the eight-track tape player if Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) has his way
http://www.boatus.com/gov/sb786.htm
Is it any wonder that most of the pay-for-weather companies are in his state? |
Dave Pratt (My_three_sons)
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Post Number: 27
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, October 10, 2005 - 11:54 am: | |
I agree with Darby about Harrell...he's a wonderful resource.
I've been an amateur forecaster for more years that I care to admit, have taught meteorology (just intro classes), and did weather forecasting for Allcoast for a few years. It's tough work, that's for sure, and you feel rotten when you miss one. To do it right is time consuming. It helps, though, when you're fascinated by the way our atmosphere moves around at the lower levels.
Thanks again, Harrell.
PS...guys...if you have decent trailers and are jonesing for quality rockfish, it's happening down here at some of the Channel Islands on good weather days. Big reds.
Dave
My Three Sons |
Darby Neil (Darby)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, October 10, 2005 - 9:51 am: | |
Who needs weather site when we have Harrel "the weatherman" Kimball?! Can anyone give me a good reason to keep Virg's open and Billy Boy live baits? Show me the fish! We'll be talking about one more exploratory with the Fiesta so if anyone is going let me know I'll try to schedule to run the same day.
Thanks Harrell for what you do. |
Badger (Unregistered Guest)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, October 09, 2005 - 4:26 pm: | |
All the bouys down here are reporting NO DATA, today, WTF? |
Mike Green (Caster)
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Post Number: 34
Registered: 12-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, October 09, 2005 - 2:08 pm: | |
Fished Montana de Oro for one hour this afternoon, Huge waves! caught one keeper surfperch (yahoo! cevece tonight!) The beach was nearly deserted. sunny and breezy, used a motor oil grub. Good luck to all, Mike Green |
bob may (Bodean)
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No freebees, no money back, and no guarantees, John |
HARRELL kIMBALL (Catmakai)
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Post Number: 363
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, October 09, 2005 - 8:40 am: | |
The weather is pretty bad out there this morning but still forecast to get better Mon/Tues . I don't see how it could come down fast enough to be ok for tomorrow but maybe tuesday. |
HARRELL kIMBALL (Catmakai)
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Post Number: 362
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, October 09, 2005 - 7:28 am: | |
Yes John I reached the same conclusion ! Ex:They show the area around Cape San Martin buoy blowing around 12 kts this morning while actually it is blowing 27 kts. Not dependable data so for me it is history ! |
JOHN COSTELLO (Taurus)
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Post Number: 42
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, October 09, 2005 - 6:14 am: | |
signed up this morning...45 min later canceled....what a joke... don't waste your time.....all they do is link you up to the weather sites that most of us already have.. |
Mike Glick (Riff_raft)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, October 08, 2005 - 9:23 pm: | |
Taurus,
I'm not talking about forecasts, I'm referring to the free data (charts and buoys) that are currently available to all. Privatization of our weather products is a bad idea.
Riff |
JOHN COSTELLO (Taurus)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, October 08, 2005 - 7:31 pm: | |
thanks for the offer bodean, but i like money back offers...lol....how about a freebee for next weeks weather? |
JOHN COSTELLO (Taurus)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, October 08, 2005 - 7:28 pm: | |
thanks harrel....terrafin is a perfect example of better private info from repackaging public info....i'm signing up for bouyweather.com... they offer your money back if you don't like it in the first 30 days. i figure that's a no-brainer.... i'll post my opinion of it in a couple of weeks.
john |
HARRELL kIMBALL (Catmakai)
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Post Number: 361
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, October 08, 2005 - 6:53 am: | |
Taurus;
Here is the address for the subscription weather site that I am trying. Don't have enough data points yet to know how good it is. It has some great features, like you can instantly get a "buoy" 7 day graphical forecast for almost anywhere in the world. The graph is in 6 hour increments with wind, wave and direction info. You can get 3 day forecasts free. Check it out.
http://buoyweather.com/ |
bob may (Bodean)
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Hey john, for the right amount of money i`ll give you my forecast. no warrantees of course. |
Mike Green (Caster)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 07, 2005 - 9:49 pm: | |
Thanks Blackie! I'm going to try Montana De Oro sandspit. I'll post my results, It sure would be nice if the freshwater fishers would join in, I'll post my results on the local lakes as the winter season sets in. Good Luck to all! Mike Green |
JOHN COSTELLO (Taurus)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 07, 2005 - 7:58 pm: | |
lately the nws forecasters seem to be butting heads... the am shift changes everything that the pm shift forecasts... i've noticed this for the last year...all the data is there... if i have to pay somebody to pull thier head out of thier rear to get a proper forecast, so be it...i'd gladly pay for a valid forecast over getting the same old crappy/lazy stuff from the weather service |
HARRELL kIMBALL (Catmakai)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 07, 2005 - 6:11 pm: | |
The weather is still looking good for mon/tues if anyone wants to go looking with Bob. |
Bob Hather (Windfall)
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Post Number: 156
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 07, 2005 - 3:57 pm: | |
I just spoke to Matt on the Billy Boy. He has medium sardine and anchovie perfact for tuna. He will be at the bait dock anytime you want him to be there. I plan to fish tuna on Tues. You can call Matt on his cell phone anytime at 440-3068. the commercials have had a decent season on the outside 120-200mi. But this is the time of year you might find the big guys anywhere without regard to water temp.
Bob Hather |
Mike (Ophiodon)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 07, 2005 - 3:12 pm: | |
A guy I know who works for DFG told me they may not get money allocated to them for CRFS next year, 2006! This is bad news folks. Call your representative!!
No CRFSS means we go back to the old style MRFSS data collection!!! |
Mike Glick (Riff_raft)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 07, 2005 - 1:46 pm: | |
Harrell,
Yes, that is where I am afraid it is heading. The feds will just sell our data to the highest bidder and stop providing the service to us. Then the only place you can get it is to pay. The so-called "free market" works for stuff like golf clubs and TVs but not for essential services that everyone, regardless of income, is entitled to. Will it become a situation where you can only get the buoy data on-line if you are rich enough? It already costs enough to go fishing with the cost of fuel ("mission accomplished"). Weather data, IMHO, is an essential service and we already paid for the data with our tax dollars that fund the satellites and NWS.
Riff |
Charles Melton (Texasbubba)
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http://www.dfg.ca.gov/mrd/mapregs7.html Here is a link to the Laws and Regulations for Morro Bay area.Be sure and pull up a Chair.There are a lot. |
Charles Melton (Texasbubba)
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Limit 5 of all species axcept Shiner Perch.You are allowed 20 of those |
Anonymous
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What is the limit on Surf Perch here in the Morro Bay area? |
HARRELL kIMBALL (Catmakai)
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Post Number: 359
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 07, 2005 - 7:55 am: | |
Correction (typo); It is Jeff Gammon (not Gannon)for Terrafin. |
Mike Blackstone (Blackie)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 07, 2005 - 7:30 am: | |
CASTER,
The motor oil color still works best for me , I fished yesterday caught two hand size fish, got there a little late, the tide was already way in , had to wade to my waist to cast to my holes.
I have been fishing 9th street in CAYUCOS but may try some new spots next week,Maybe make the drive up to ALDER creek and try to catch some shallow water rockfish.
Good luck ,and hope them LFT show soon , got a tank full of diesel we ned to burn.
Blackie/Sr |
Dave (Antikbuff)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 07, 2005 - 7:16 am: | |
Andrew,
You're on the best site there is, RIGHT HERE... to be looking for tuna on the central coast. Just keep checking these post regulary for weather & tuna updates. There's plenty of great guys & gals locally that will help you... And themselves, locate the elusive tuna in this area.
Fish-On, Fish-Off... Good luck,
Dave |
HARRELL kIMBALL (Catmakai)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 07, 2005 - 6:58 am: | |
Mike:
The key word in your post was "repackaging". When a sharp entrepreneur takes the "free" data and and re-formats to a much better product that is quick and easy to use at a very reasonable price ... free enterprise ! Terrafin SST and chlorophyll data starts out free but Jeff Gannon made it a much better product and much much easier to use. I know because I spent a year processing the chlorophyll data for us tuna nuts and was really happy when Jeff added it to the subscription for Terrafin. I agree that our gov't should provide free weather data to all of us and certainly not make us pay for what we already pay for. |
Mike Glick (Riff_raft)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, October 06, 2005 - 7:03 pm: | |
Harrell,
I'm not in favor of any pay sites for the weather data. They are just using data that they get from the government that we paid for with our taxes, repackaging it, and selling it back to us. We already own the information. It's the federal governments responsibility to deliver it to us. Just another ripoff.
Riff Raft |
Mike Green (Caster)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, October 06, 2005 - 6:58 pm: | |
Hey Blackie, what color grubs are working best?
Thinkin about perchin on sunday, had a great rockfish season. time to chill on the beach a little, I hope the tuna guys get luck, I think they are going a little nuts. Maybe do a halibut hunt later. Thank you Mr. Kimball |
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Dave (ANTIKBUFF)
Thanks for your reply.
I will try closer to home (Morro Bay) first. |
HARRELL kIMBALL (Catmakai)
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New Toy !
I subscribed to the "buoy weather" site that I posted below. $30/year and it is impressive (so far). It shows mon/tues as the weather window for our area if anyone is thinking of prospecting for albacore.
A really great feature is that you can check the conditions/forecast for any place in the world. We postponed a trip to San Carlos Mexico this weekend based on the forecasts for the area.
Stacy;
It shows Bahia de Los Angeles as breezy mon, tues and wed (around 15kts) let know what it was when you get back so we can see how good the forecast was. |
HARRELL kIMBALL (Catmakai)
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Weather;
Just checked the computer models for the next 7 days and it is not looking good for the weekend. Might be a break tues/wed. |
Mike Blackstone (Blackie)
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YOU GUYS NEED TO GO FISHING.
Surf perch fishing is good now and the beach weather is GREAT.
Blackie/Sr |
David Shahrabani (Windstone)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, October 06, 2005 - 6:44 am: | |
Dynamo Dan:
I am looking at changing my fish finder. When I read the specs on the JRC 500, I thought it was limited to 600Watts output. Can you really convert it to 1000 Watts with a different xducer? The performance you referred to- marking fish at 3500'- is this with the 600 or 1000 watt setup?
Thanks for the info. |
James Pruitt (Jps_crown)
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Does anyone know the bait situation from the Billy Boy? {man ,I better watch my spelling} |
Dave (Antikbuff)
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My appologises to the rest of the board for my last post. I got a little carried away. Reckon it's from being uptight with the non-cooperating tuna around here... Or NOT around here. However you look at it.
Dave |
Dave (Antikbuff)
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I FOUND THE ERROR ALRIGHT !!!
THE JERK WHO POSTED THE LAST 2 POST !
IDIOT ! |
Anonymous
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can u find the error? |
Anonymous
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everyone has a diferent opinion and cant spell worth a damn |
Dave (Antikbuff)
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Andrew,
I would strongly suggest looking back over all the post for the past 2 months. And if you're looking for opinion's... I'd say get yourself up north. Monteray, Moss Landing, San Francisco and even points further north.
Dave |
Steve Hendricks (Fishmaster)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - 2:22 pm: | |
James Pruit,
I fished halibut last friday. It was pretty slow, but we did manage to land one nice 28" halibut. Had maby two others on. The one we landed was a female (of course) and the eggs looked liked they were still a few weeks away from being ready to go...so I think there should be another strong push of fish onto the beach. There was also a ton of bait N. of the light house in 30-50' of water...so they ought to be around.
Best fishes,
steve |
Andrew Kovach PI Boater (Unregistered Guest)
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I am new to central, ca. Are there any links that give fishing spot GPS numbers for the Morro Bay area?
Anyone have any information on Tuna near Morro bay
Thanks |
Sissy (Unregistered Guest)
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Dynamo Dan, I agree. Heading out for the boat show now. Taking my wallet.
John |
James Pruitt (Jps_crown)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - 6:16 am: | |
Has Anyone done
halibut fishing since the rockfish closure and how did you do? |
Dynamo Dan (Unregistered Guest)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, October 04, 2005 - 9:37 pm: | |
The JRC 500F has been top notch for me so far (1 year). The JRC 1800 (2 years)has an issue with the plugs on the back. They seam top notch but if you let a crew member twist them when conecting or disconecting they will break internaly inside the unit. JRC did warenty it for me overnight wich was right on but it has not been redesigned. By the way, take a closer look at the high end comercial sonars from Furuno and JRC, guess what, they are the same unit. Now look inside a furuno. Dam parts say JRC on them. Humm, I wonder who makes the furuno. Just seams to offer less and cost more! |
Sissy (Unregistered Guest)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, October 04, 2005 - 7:20 pm: | |
The JRC 500F color LCD plotter/fish finder is the one I am looking at replacing the Furunos I have. The JRC500F runs about $1000.
I am unfamiliar with the super xpndr though.
I'll be checking them out day after tomorrow at the LB Boat Show.
John |
Dynam Dan (Unregistered Guest)
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JRC electronics:
I use a plot 500f chart ploter/fish finder. This unit is attached to a Airmar B260 transducer. The finder portion is the same as the ff50. It has 600W RMS. It will register the supper sized airmar transducer and than it will put out 1,000 W RMS instead. I can read the bottom and fish marks at 3,500'. Tuna are easy to pick out and with proper placment and streamlining of the transducer, I get a clear reading and can locate rockcod at 25 nots! Generaly I have the power level set to less the 10%. The ploter function is rich in detail. The JRC 1800 Radar ploter twins this unit on my boat and also works well. |
Dynamo Dan (Unregistered Guest)
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Been watching your Morro tuna reports and hoping to see something solid your way. Knowing what’s happing your way is very helpful for me. I normally fish out of Monterey and Santa Cruz. You may have seen my Davidson posts copied to your board several times this summer. Dam wind and waves been keeping me in shore now for over a week now. I hope to get in another run but it doesn’t look good. By the way, who ever was copying these posts to your Morro Bay site can no longer find them because, my fishing friends and I were booted from the BATC board. Now you will find these bite reports at our own page www.tunabite.com instead. Our last good catch was 12 large tuna 9/29/05 out of Bodega and there also was 7 large tuna caught at 36.12 / 122.51. At least you know there were some fish to be had nearby and less than10 days ago. Wishing all of us better luck next year.
Dynamo Dan |
HARRELL kIMBALL (Catmakai)
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Here is a wind and wave site I found . Don't know what virtual buoys are but I will be looking at it to see if the data seems valid.
http://buoyweather.com/wxnav.jsp?region=CC&program=Maps |
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Social idiot: Swells were a little bigger than 4 to 6 ft. Maybe 4 to 6 ft. above Admiral's freeboard! |
Sissy (Unregistered Guest)
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Tim and Harrold,
I'll check the Furuno again. I make allot of errors nowadays. Fished too long.
Still going to checkout all the new goodies at the LB Boat Show. I do appreciate the input. I tried the Berkley "Gulp" lure while out last Friday. I didn't even get into the bait tank. A limit of reds on one lure. They love it. Four small lings also. (Released, of course.) One huge yellow bass (Johnnie bass), must have been 24" was just too wary, and I could not hook him. Got to checkout my new Yamaha kicker with autopilot. Kept me over the fish. Great fun.
Thanks,
John |
Tim Mohawk (Tailchaser)
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I agree check your brill setting Sissy.
Good luck. |
Harold R. Miller (Bingo)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, October 02, 2005 - 8:53 pm: | |
Sissy:
A couple years ago I was convinced my GPS was "going out" because I could hardly read it. It's an old Trimble. I called the company and found out that I had accidently been turning the display down when I turned the unit on. I know your Furuno has a lot more features than mine, but is it possible that somewhere in your menu you can increase the display brightness or otherwise improve the display so that you can see it? Just a thought. |
Jack Scarbrough (Valhalla)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, October 02, 2005 - 7:11 pm: | |
Fished the Monterey Canyon yesterday. We couldn't make it as far as we wanted to due to rough seas but we did find a desent break and 60.5 water. Metered lots of fish of some kind but saw no jumpers and had no strikes. |
Sissy (Unregistered Guest)
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Thanks FV Flyer, I plan to check them out(JRC) at the Long Beach Boat Show this week. I have a Furuno GP 1610 CF Finder/Plotter and also Furuno Radar. Friday the color finder/plotter screen became almost unreadable. It is readable in total darkness. Glad I didn't really need the gps that day, but what if it had been this last salmon season when the fog was heavy and I was trying to find the harbour entrance?
John |
Sandra McCarthy (Sandra)
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The National Weather Service is going kill someone some day. There forecast sucks!
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The Admiral is a stout vessel and could have delivered us to the grounds easily. I will admit, though, it was a relief not to be soaked to the bone and bruised from those aluminium rails. Umm,, the forcast was wrong. Put a four to six foot swell with a short frequency and whitecaps on top! I have to thank Sam Kaeli for making a sound decision; live to fish another day.
the Idiot....
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The Diablo report on Friday said:
========== DCPP Weather Forecast for Thursday 09/29/05 ==============
SEA/SWELL:
This morning's 3 to 5 foot northwesterly (285°) seas (with a 5-9
second period) will continue through Friday morning.
A 5 to 7 foot northwesterly (285°) sea/swell (with a 6-17 second
period) will arrive along our coastline on Friday afternoon, building
to 6 to 8 feet (with a 13-15 second period) on Saturday morning.
Increasing northwesterly winds will produce a 6 to 8 foot northwesterly
(290°) sea/swell (with a 5-13 second period) along our coastline on
Saturday afternoon and night. This 6 to 8 foot northwesterly sea/swell
will continue at this height and period along our coastline through
Tuesday but with a 6-11 second period. Note: wave heights will be
higher at the offshore buoys and northwesterly facing beaches.
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And that's for Diablo, not even the for the open ocean. I wish NOAA would look at the buoys or maybe even look at the PG&E report, anything!
Sandra |
Paul (Fv_flyer)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, October 02, 2005 - 12:22 pm: | |
Sissy,
I have the JRC FF50 LCD fishfinder with the primo transducer, and i love it. Very reliable, and IMO a better display than the furuno. I assume you are talking about fishfinders. JRC's whole line is very good stuff.
Paul |
Sissy (Unregistered Guest)
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If you guys were to put new electronics on your boat, what would be the best bet. My Furuno has let me down for the last time.
John |
socal idiot (Unregistered Guest)
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In reply to Harrel,
I went aboard the Admiral today; we headed toward the davidson. I have experienced rougher water only twice before! Sam called the trip around 10 miles short of the area due to sustained winds near 30 mph. The water was near 59 degrees and purple/blue could be be seen going down swell. The Admiral is a stout vessel and could have delivered us to the grounds easily. I will admit, though, it was a relief not to be soaked to the bone and bruised from those aluminium rails. Umm,, the forcast was wrong. Put a four to six foot swell with a short frequency and whitecaps on top! I have to thank Sam Kaeli for making a sound decision; live to fish another day.
the Idiot....
Oh ya! do not give up MEN! LFT have to be there!!! |
David Shahrabani (Windstone)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, October 01, 2005 - 5:52 pm: | |
Well, we gave it a shot today. Decided to try at 35-00/121-30. Got there at 7AM. Weather was awful. Had hoped to see 60deg water but was only 58-59. Trolled for one hour. Couldn't keep the jigs in the water or keep the lines under control. Really couldn't stand in the boat without using two hands. Left at 8AM. Certainly was not the best choice I have ever made- but there were no small craft advisories when we left from home.
I guess I just had to get this trip out of my system. Now I am content to wait for lots of fish, close by and calm weather. Not too picky is it?
Did one other Alby trip about a month ago and was able to can 38 pints, so if this is the end of this year it could have been worse. |
Mike Blackstone (Blackie)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, October 01, 2005 - 5:44 pm: | |
I hope the dept of fun and games reads the fish report for VIRGS landing Today, and I hope there happy with all the people that will join the unemployment rolls.
To bad we cant put all then on the jobless list, along with all the employees of VIRGS and all the other landings they affect. |
HARRELL kIMBALL (Catmakai)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, October 01, 2005 - 9:23 am: | |
Mark:
The antenna that I was talking to you on yesterday is a Shakespear 5399 which is the same one I have on my boat. It is a 9.5 ft. 6db gain antenna with a 3 ft removable tip which makes it easy to store. It is pretty stout so it takes an extra strong mount. From my base I have talked to boats as far as 80 miles on it. |
Mark E Hilliard (Ms_mackey)
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Harrell
Thanks for the help yesturday and all the time. I think I will get a new antenna. What do you suggest? |
HARRELL kIMBALL (Catmakai)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, October 01, 2005 - 6:53 am: | |
I sure hope nobody went towards the Cape San Martin buoy this morning !! Gusting to 31kts with 9 ft 6 sec waves. If the readings are correct it shows just what can happen out there even if the forecast is for 10-15.
Special thanks to the guys that worked the area to the south yesterday. Hard to believe that there were no albacore , it had all the signs ! |
