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!

WE LOVE YA!

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

Reserarch Fishing- Whoo Hoo!!!

Hi Everybody! Happy New Year!
Usually there is no fishing in January or February as the rock fishing is closed - Except if you go fishing on a research trip.
I was lucky enough to be invited to go by Capt. Jason Diamond of the Stardust out of Santa Barbara Harbor to help with research on Thursday & Friday, Jan 28 & 29.

It was a beautiful day, there was still snow on the mountains from last weeks storms. The 12 mile reef ( aka. The Dome) is an hour out of SB harbor. The chili's were plentiful and we gathered a good variety of sizes, males & females some with larvae. I did not know that chilies birthed live microscopic young. So Cool!

The team kept detailed notes of exact locations of each fishing spot - GPS location , depth, what was caught, species, quantities etc.

Our Research team is Sabrina and Noah from UC Santa Cruz, they are contracted through the University by the state to conduct these studies - collecting fish spieces samplings and studying their growth and reproductive and other factors. All of their data goes into a larger data base that goes to tracking trends in fish populations.

The target fish on Thursday was the Chili Pepper, they wanted about 50 of them and of those about 10-12 that were large and mature.

We did well and got done and were back at the dock by 2pm.

I am gussing we had about 8 anglers, 3 crew and our 2 scientists on thursday. On Friday we left at 6am and drove to San Augustine a 3 1/2 hour drive from SB- the target spiecies was Yellow Tail Rockfish, I was told it was like a Johnny Bass. I had only been to San augistine once before and it was too windy and current too strong the drifts were too fast. This tiem however it was really nice and the current was going the opposite direction to the breeze soe we had almost no drift. I fished with light tackle and no more than a 5 oz weight. I have never caught so many fish. every drop a got hit immeciately mostley small rock fish. I did get one relly nice Whitefish on my lightacle it was really fun - sorry no photo. All fish not taken for studies were released and most had fin clips taken for DNA studies.

On Friday we fished really hard and caught a lot of fish may be 80 to 100 each. Of the Target Spicies we only collected 6.

I fished hard and brought home no fillets - but it was a great experience and I learned a lot.

IT IS ANNEYE'S BIRTHDAY! A BLOG YOU DON'T WANNA MISS!

YOU CAN BET THERE WILL BE SOMEONE BLOWING OUT MY CANDLE! AND IT WON'T BE MY DOG HUNNY MAE (PICTURED HERE)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANNEYE !!!!

WE ALL "FISH" YOU A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY !!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAZZMINE!

SCHOOLS OF FISH HERE TO WISH YOU A HAPPY DAY!

New Art Exhibit - " Fragments"

Fragments
New Assemblage Series
Faulkner West Gallery
February 1-28, 2010
Reception February 4 5-8pm
Barbara Baker McIntyre will show a new body of work “FRAGMENTS” at the Faulkner West room of the Faulkner Gallery (Santa Barbara Public Library, 40 E. Anapamu St.)
This new series is based around a collection of German doll parts and fragments. These have been unearthed in the Thuringia Province at various burned and destroyed porcelain doll factories. The parts date from 1880 to about 1930 and have been buried until recently.
In this series I am treating the parts more like Artifacts than just interesting parts to add into a composition.
This show will be of special interest to doll collectors and others who enjoy images from an earlier era.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAREN T.

CHEERS TO YOUR HAPPY DAY LET IT BE FILLED WITH JOY AND LAUGHTER.

LA PAZ 2010

LADY ANGLERS,

WE ARE PLANNING OUR TRIP TO LA PAZ. I WILL BE IN CHARGE OF PULLING IT ALL TOGETHER. I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHO IS INTERESTED AT THIS POINT AND WHEN YOU WOULD CONSIDER GOING? WE ARE LOOKING AT SEPTEMBER. ALSO I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF YOU WOULD PREFER A HOUSE TO RENT OR A HOTEL? HOW MANY DAYS WOULD YOU LIKE TO FISH FOR? THANKS FOR YOUR INPUT. I WILL PUT TOGETHER AN AMAZING FISHING ADVENTURE FOR ALL OF US! ANNEYE

MEMBERSHIP CARDS!

ANGLERS DO NOT FORGET TO MAIL YOUR DUES TO BABSIE SO SHE CAN MAIL YOU YOUR OFFICIAL GCLA MEMBERSHIP CARDS! PLEASE BE SURE TO LET US KNOW IF YOU AREN'T GOING TO JOIN US THIS YEAR. THANKS!

A HUGE HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARION!!!!

HOPE YOUR DAY IS FULL OF FIN FILLED MOMENTS!

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More Royal Polaris Pics

I would like to wish all everyone a Happy New Year!! The Royal Polaris trip was awesome!! It was a pleasure to meet everyone and we had 10 ladies on the trip (pretty cool!) The crew was awesome, food amazing, and fishing..well we rocked it!! So much fun, we had a lot of laughs and cranking to do but it was all worth it. Here are some more pictures for you!!

Here is a link to more of my pics if you want to check them all out..
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=170297&id=645157436&l=b4b74e9635

Royal Polaris Dec 2009

What an incredible trip! 5 days on the Royal Polaris. 5lbs on the hips for sure. They served us breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, dinner- homemade loaves of bread each night. No meal the same. An awesome staff including 2 cooks and 6 deckhands. The weather was superb, calm and not too cold once we got to San Benitos Islands (by Cedros). The fishing was fantastic. At last count we had caught a bit over 500 yellowtails and over 300 rock fish. Jan hooked a very large lingcod, Pat a fat sheepshead, Kathy had a 25.5lb yellowtail and I was just delighted to catch yellows for the first time! My largest was 20lb and I couldn't have been happier. Sophie also snagged a 24 lb yellow and her boyfriend Kevin a 27lb! Those were just the highlights. The rest was gravy!