IT'S SHIRLEY'S SPECIAL DAY!

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ENJOY YOUR DAY!

Fishing Beauties- I am learning to blog!

This was December 08 what beautiful sheepsheads

Marion in Alaska

Jeanne and her beautiful Lings

TODAY IS SOPHIA'S BIRTHDAY!!!!!

HOPE YOUR DAY IS FILLED WITH PANAMA REDS!

MELI IS HAVING A BIRTHDAY!

don't be fishy washy on your Birthday.

Sand Dabbing on the Sea Angler

Hello Ladies, Im not sure why the pics didn't go through, but you can see the pics on the blog...

Fish for dinner tonight.

Apollo Feb 19-21

We have been watching the Colnett reports waiting for a decent enough yellow bite to make the journey...Finally last weekend 5 boats score 138 yellows! That was enough to wipe the dust of our gear and hop in the truck....

We flew to Fisherman's in 3 hours...trippy how they are re-doing all the shops, it looked like a freakin' construction zone..Parking was WFO! so we unloaded our gear and ate while we waited to board.

JJ showed up and we loaded. He told us it may be a bit bumpy on the way out, but the weather looked nice for Saturday...

A bit bumpy was an understatement...We rolled around all night. I finally got out of bed and we still had an hour to go ..ugh!!

I tied on a scrambled egg Salas 6X on my 6470 with a JX 2-speed, and a blue/White on Calstar 700M and both were spooled with 40, Izorline XXX of course!!

Finally the engines back off and everyone grabs their gear...I sink to the bottom and wind with all my heart...Nada..Again, again, again, then...

SLAM!!!

I get stopped dead, the fish makes a run and I throw my reel into low and wound that forkie all the way to the boat...My fish is the first to hit the deck...



Fred got short-bit, drops again and gets ripped again...This fish stuck for second and then let go... As fast as it started it was over...10 fish died between 12-22 pounds.

We tried for a bit longer but no love...we split as soon as the Humbolts started eating the jigs...

Off to the deeper water for some bottom critters....Fishing was really tough and we definetly had to work to fill the sacks..We managed a few nice Reds, lots of big Whitefish, and I even ended the day with a Ling.











Rain came down on us for a half hour and then it was gone...Some whales got close and gave us a show which is always cool to see...



Zoomed in.....





As the sun set we sat down to eat...Bomb a$$ meatloaf, mashed potatoes, and veggies, not to mention one of the best chinese chicken salads I've ever had...




Ride home was awesome...Smooth as a babies butt...Pulled up to the dock at 6am and we were home by 930am!!!

Very Special thanks to JJ, Tyler, Matt, Jessica and Nick in the Galley for a great trip. The Apollo rocks!

Phenomenal Yellow Tail Bite in February

This was supposed to be just a rock fishing trip.

I have been down to Colnett before and we always stop to see if there are any YT biters. So far, my experience has been, that in Jan & Feb there aren't many.


When we stopped at the high spot to look around there were 3 other boats and the word was they had caught a few. I had set up really for rock fishing and had only 25 lb mono on top of my 50 lb spectra. I got bit and broke off. Live and Learn - I will not go out again without a really stout setup for jigging for yellow tail.

From about 7:45 to 10:30 the boat caught 39 yellow tail then the bite seemed to shut off, so we went looking for rock cod.

We got on a couple of spots and everyone was bringing up good quality reds. Some lings and ocean white fish. I did not see them, but I know we made a couple of moves to avoid the Humboldt squids.

By about 3pm we had gotten our limits of rock fish so Capt. Drew decided to head back and see if there were any more YT biters. There were. This is very unusual to get an am and pm bite for YT, I was told - some attributed it to the El Nino -warmer waters.

We caught another 12 in the Pm bite from about 3:30 to 5:30. The YT that I caught was courtesy of one of the other anglers "Mike" who had caught the Jack Pot fish earlier and hooked another YT and handed me his rod to reel it in. Mike had caught about 3 other YT and really wanted me to get the feel of reeling one in. This was an open party trip and everyone were complete strangers, but they were a great group and a lot of fun. I will never forget reeling that fish in and am so thankful to Mike for being so generous.

23 angers 2/13/2010

220 cod

10 lings

51 yellow tail

1 cow cod

Wow , what a thrill my arm is still sore - I believe my fish was about 20 lbs. At the end of the evening one of the other anglers Rich weighed several of the yellow tail and told me they were from 15lbs to the JP at 27lbs.

I always have a great time on the Apollo, boat &the crew are the best - This time Capt. Drew Card, the weather and the fish came together for a really fantastic winter run down to Colnett.

IT'S KATHY'S BIRTHDAY!

A BIG SAC FULL OF BIRTHDAY WISHES FOR YOU TODAY!

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THIS WEEK'S MEETING- VALENTINES

LADIES THERE IS GOING TO BE 2 FREE RAFFLES AT THIS EVENT. WE ARE ALSO RECIEVING A PLAQUE AND IT WOULD BE GREAT TO HAVE A GOOD TURNOUT. HAVEN'T HEARD FROM MANY OF YOU ON EATS. APPETIZERS, FINGER FOODS AND DESSERTS ARE THE TREATS. THINK VALENTINES! SEE YOU AT LOUISE'S HOUSE!
ANNEYE