Roosters at the Ranch!!!

My Sweetheart took me to Rancho Leonero which is a private paradise on the East Cape in Baja Mexico to celebrate our 2 year anniversary as well as my birthday. This was the best trip of my life...Fishing was excellent and the company was even better. Fred and I had the following awesome fish count for 3 days of fishing:

1 - 20# Rooster (Fred)

2 - 40# Roosters (1 each)

1 - 45# Rooster (Fred)

4 - 50# Roosters (2 each)

1 - 55# Rooster (me)

1 - 60# Rooster (Fred)

1 - 65# Rooster (me)

1 - 10# Dorado (Fred)

1 - 30# Dorado (Fred)

1 - 40# Tuna (me)

1 - 20# Tuna (Fred)

1 - 12# Pargo (me)

1 - 80# Sea Turtle, 2 Needlefish, 2 Cabrilla...

I'll let the pics do the talking..........

The Scenery...

The fish..........

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ERIKA!

SORRY FOR THE DELAY......DARN HOLIDAY.

HOPE YOUR DAY WAS FILLED WITH LOTS OF WONDERFUL MOMENTS AND FISHY THOUGHTS.

Pacific Dawn Charter

Oh well, what can I say, just another fabulous trip on the Pacific Dawn. The wind gods could have been a little nicer, but it was not all that bad. The morning was awesome and then the wind started kicking up in the afternoon - but not enough to to damper the GCLA spirit and determination. Lot's of quality rock fish were caught with Dorothy leading the way.
She certainly had the "hot" stick of the day. As you can see, Ana had "ball" on this trip.
Jackpot winner was Mary with a 6 lb red snapper.
All and all, it was a great day on a great boat with a great crew. We tip our rods to Pat and crew for another awesome Pac Dawn charter and can't till next month when we are on again.

Have They Stocked This Lake, Lately?

Hi Ladies,

I have been wanting to get out and go fishing. I know the WSB are showing up at the islands and a few have been caught . I keep thinking as soon as this late spring weather lets up we will get some warmer wather and things will go off. I saw a posting on the sportfishingreports.com for a limited load on the Aloha Spirit for Wednesday may 26 and the weather looked good. I knew this was going to be a surface fishing exploratory so not a bag filler rock fish trip. Jake and I jumped on 100.00 each for 12 max on the Aloha Spirit. We ended up with 10 very nice people many expeiernced anglers - very comfortable with the light load.

I can't go with you ladies this weekend as I have two exhibitions to take down on Fri & Sat and one to install on Sunday.

Anyway it was a very different day - started out foggy & cloudy then the fog burned off and the sun came out but not on the coast. The ocean was flat calm - silky surface. Also there was no current - so no bite.

We actually saw WSB and baracuda swiming in the kelp - but there were no biters.

Did I mention the 100's of dolphins we saw an the way back mid channel - they were every where and i noticed many young ones about 3-4 ft long junping fully out of the water.

Out of the fish caught and kept (only 3) 2 were caught by a first time lady angler - Erin from Hollywood. Go Lady Anglers!!!

Yours truly won the JP with a nice Calico bass. Sea y'all next time!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEANA!

WHEW YOU THOUGHT WE FORGOT YOU?!?!?!?

NO WAY, STILL WISHING YOU A HAPPY DAY!

HOPE YOUR DAY WAS FILLED WITH LOTS OF FISHES

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JACQUI !!

YOU HOOKED ANOTHER YEAR! LOOKING FORWARD TO MORE AT THE RAIL WITH YOU.

Anyone want to Play Hookie?

I signed up for the Ranger 85 going out Monday night 10pm - fishing Tuesday, they only have 6 reservations

So Far.

Need abaout 15 to go - cool ,a light load on the spacious Ranger !!!

Whoo Hoo!!!!

Call - 805-386-1612 Channel Island Sportfishing and book your spot. See you there.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAREN!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AND MANY FISHY RETURNS!

Mirage Light Load May 8, 2010

As Charter master for the first time on the Mirage - I thought it would be nice to limit the load and make things a little more comfortable, maybe I have gotten spoiled or am getting old but I like it less crowded. Everybody felt like this was special enjoyed the light load. Erin V even stocked the pantry with some nice bottles of wine.

Out of 22 we had 18 anglers. this made it very easy for the crew and everyone to give a lot of attention to our 3 new lady anglers- Zoe, Anne and Liza.

It was a rough ride out and about a third of our group was very uncomfortable and spent much of the night in the galley. The sun came up on the back side of Santa Rosa and the wind was high. A couple of us tried for Seabass - but no luck.

Capt.Tucker moved us off to look for some rock fish in shallower water in a more protected area. The sun was out and the wind died back to a tolerable level . We were catching White Fish, rock fish then Zoe brought up a nice pink sheephead -her first fish ever- nice way to start out. Her MOM, Anne got a nice big Chucklehead(copper rock fish) Liza did real well with a couple of really big Boccacio and some blue bass. Biff got this nice Ocean White Fish on one stop.

With the wind on us all day it was a tough go we kept picking here and there where Capt Tucker could keep us out of the wind. We all came home with something to cook -it was not the usual trip on the Mirage but we all made the best of it in true GCLA Fashion.

Renee pulled up this lunker Sheephead and it was definetly the JP Winner! Go Renee - She really went home with a nice bag of fish.
Just for the heck of it we put Biff's whitefish up against the Sheephead and it was no match. The Whitefish was a little over 7 lbs.Any way we had a good time - this was a day of fishing just not as much catching as we have had in the past. Our new lady anlgers felt they had accomplished something and shoud get a medal for haveing survived the trip- I think so too!!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DOROTHY!

MAY ALL YOUR FISHY DREAMS COME TRUE THIS BIRTHDAY!

Future GCLA Members!!!!

While Mommy was at the GCLA Knot tying Seminar, Fred took the Wonder-twins out for a fishing adventure on the docks of Marina Beach. Armed with frozen mussels, small hooks and bobbers they went to battle with the mighty "greenback" mackerel.....

And the reward for their victory??? The Ice Cream man!!!

What an awesome way to spend the day!!

Watch out world, here come two more Gold Coast Lady Anglers!!!!

2 Days on the Ranger 85

Jacob- enjoying the calm seas and great fishing

I had reserved 6 spots on the Ranger 2-day Ling Cod opener back in December after our Xmas Party. As time went on our number dwindled to 4 - OK Then! Our trip got cancelled due to high wind and surf and moved to the following weekend. I had not Signed up for the Sea Biscuit thinking 2 major trips in 2 weeks might be a bit much.
Good thing - cause we were leaving the same night as you. So fun to see everyone on the docks and visiting back and forth between the charters.
Anyway- the weather, as Erika said in her blog, was better than predicted going out and fishing on Saturday was as nice as I have ever seen it at Nicholas smooth seas and it got calmer as the day wore on.

This was my Big Fish for Saturday

We caught lots of Boccacio at first then made some moves to get out to that and got into White Fish and Sheephead land, lots of wonderful rock fish - biggest johnny bass I ever saw. I really thought I had the JP for Saturday with my big goat but when they dumped the bags and started cleaning fish the found 2 Ocean Whitefish that outweighed my monster Sheephead. WE caught so much on Saturday they had to put out second bags for most everyone and took the early ones and put them into the cold hold. Then they processed that days catch on Saturday night - they crew was up till 2am processing our catch.

We were not sure what Sunday would hold we stayed out at Nick and anchored up for the night. Chef Paul made a fabulous dinner- Tri tip, mashed potatoes, corn & rolls. (Lunch was Teriyaki chicken sticky rice & steamed veggies) I made blackberry/peach cobbler (4- 9x12's) for the boat dessert- holding up the Lady Angler tradition of treating the Crew and fellow anglers.

Sunday morning was cooler and a little breeze but not bad by Nicholas standards so we moved off in search of lings, white & sheep. The lings didn't really show up much for us but mid morning we did a drift over a spot were the Sheeps were coming over the side BIG and lots of them - WOW 20 lbs at the top end.

Another larger Goat was brought on board by a heck of a nice guy but he did not get into the Pot, so Biff's was the next largest and he won JP on Sunday - keeping it in the family.

The counts for the boat were 2 days totals

640 Rockfish

464 Ocean White Fish

77 Sheephead

6 Ling Cod

It took three carts to get all the fillets and fish up to the dock.

Yes - Mom Erika - I took care to slip Tanner, a little something extra - he's a very hard worker!