GCLA Camping

Hello everyone, and yes, I just learned how to blog so this is last years info, but fun just the same.....and we hope to do another this year. Jeanne, Meli and I started out Friday morning heading to Lake Cachuma with enough food and drinks to last us several days. The lake was beautiful when we arrived and as you will see from the pics, it just kept getting better. People came to visit – helped with the tents and stayed the night. These ladies know how to camp and are so prepared! I learned that the tough survive and these girls made that mark look easy! Jeanne and Meli are awesome campers and seem to have everything one could think of so I was busy taking mental notes of what to take next time...... 1st - a tent that works! Oh well, I made due and it was great. (I ended up in my car), but they had lights, toilets, stoves not to mention the obvious of tents and sleeping bags. They had every that they could need and then some. Mental note to self: No one should go camping with out everything that they alone should need. These ladies are awesome teachers!! Anyway, there was the brief fire on the outskirts of the site that they put out using the water from the lake (pics below) on the first day. Meli made some wonderful tuna salad that was to die for which we ate while watching them put out the fire. The fishing was non existent and it was super hot without shade near the lake but the best part was the camaraderie! Ana came early on Saturday and then Marion and Renee joined us for the day. By Sunday we were a little melancholy to go back to reality. But we promised each other to do it next year. I hope you enjoy the pictures and maybe next time you will join us, pop a tent and sit by the fire with us.

Aloha Spirit - March 26, 2011

The weatherman said rain in the morning and afternoon so we were expecting choppy water, but as you will see from the pictures it was beautiful. We left at 5:00 just as we were supposed to (even though I over slept - I hate that), and took a while to get out to Santa Cruz. So, with the overcast skies and a beautiful ocean, with the green island from the rain, wonderful Gold Coast Lady Angers and a couple of new friends we began fishing. We started out with Vita Loca bringing in ONE AFTER THE OTHER, but 2 at a time! Then Louise started giving Vita a little competition and they would compare who was bigger. I on the other hand was catching didley but just loved being out there. (isn't that what I'm supposed to say when I don't catch anything?) I continued to tell Vita if she didn't stop I was going to put her in the bait tank and would compare her to the bait tank size at which point Rickey started calling me Babzilla! (When the minister calls you 'Babzilla' you might question if you will see God when you get up there) But I wasn't the only person teasing on boat, Corey our wonderful deck hand... well you can see the guilty look on his face as he's trying to get away from whatever he did., He would walk around tapping our rods to make us think we got bit. Sometimes it worked and sometimes ot. One time Vita said regarding one of her fish 'Is that a good size' to which Corey replied 'That's as big as that size is going to get'. Corey made a funny! I finally got a really nice chucklehead and red together and once we caught limits we went for a halibut run, to no avail. But we appreciated the shot at it. The fish were there, but they weren't biting. Jackpot: Our GCLA winner was Chris with a 4lb 2oz chucklehead (who knew what she was catching so quietly on the other side of the boat!) beating out Mary and Vita on all of their catches. Greg took home the guys Jackpot with a beautiful red. All in all - great day on the water.

Gramma Zap!!!!!!

Just wanted to share the news that Jeanne is at the hospital with her daughter and looks like as of today we can officially call Jeanne GRAMMA ZAP!!!!

Let's all put Jeanne and Andrea in our prayer boxes for a wonderful easy labor and delivery!

Congrats Jeanne!!! Can't wait to see the new addition to our awesome group of Lady Anglers!!!

GCLA Dominates the Colnett once again!

GCLA hit the Colnett once again aboard the fabulous Dominator. We headed out Friday night to fish the Baja coast on a trip that rescheduled due to last weekends foul weather....

The weather forcast was great...The ocean was grease and the ride was smooth all the way there....I always pray to the fish Gods on the way to Colnett for a shot at the Yellows, but again, no luck on the exotics this time.

We threw a couple scoops on the high spot to encourage a bite and Fred and I worked the yo-yo solid for the first hour and a half....Frank wasn't seeing anything on the meter, but I kept trying until my shoulder just gave out.....then it was the dropper loop for the remainder...

The sun came out early and everyone started stripping off the layers....It felt so nice to feel the sun on my skin for a change...should have broke out the sunscreen when I saw everyone else doing it...oh well. By the end of the trip I was the same color as the Giant Reds we caught all day.

I struggled for the first few drifts....With a pound I would hit the bottom and instantly come up...Current was ripping for sure as everyone else reported. Frank told us we were drifting at 2 knots!!!! Craziness...I scoped out to make contact with the bottom again and EVERY FREAKIN TIME I would hang the bottom.....We were drifting so fast there was no chance of popping it off either...Between Fred and I, I think we donated 15qty 16oz sinkers to the big blue and then bought another 7 off of Frank....Frank sold 37 pounds of lead by the end of the trip...Jeez...Expensive freaking Lings!!!

We had a split JP on this trip because over half ended up being guys because a lot of ladies couldn't make the rescheduled date...I secured the Ladies JP with a Ling that went around 15 pounds. Josh took the men's side with a beast close to 20....We ended up with 43 lings and easy limits of consistantly huge Reds in the 5-8 pound range and a bunch of whitefish and misc. rock fish in the mix. Even 2 or 3 sheephead! Side note....I didn't have our infamous fish hat for the JP shot, so pardon my photoshop!

We also caught two "Mexican Reds" (the one on top in the pic below) I think they are just boccacios, but the crew said they are Mexican reds.... I laid it next to a red for comparison....Just goes to show one never stops learning!!!

Meals were off the hook once again...French toast and breakfast burritos in the manana, chicken fajita burritos at lunch, and veal picatta for supper with steamed asparagas....TO DIE FOR!!! and my favorite cookies and cream ice cream for dessert!!! Special thanks to Mondo for sneaking me all the big chunks of cookies!!!!





The Dominator has quickly become one of my all time favorite boats for sure....Not just because the boat is so comfy and wide and almost every bunk is a double.....but the crew is so killer cool it's like being with family. They really treat you right and with Frank and Randy at the wheel, that boat just kills the fish...

Thanks to Frank, Randy, Mondo, Paulie, and Kevin for another fantastic trip and fat full sacs once again and also for treating the Gold Coast Lady Anglers like the queens we are!!

March Birthday Girls!!!

The Gold Coast Lady Anglers would like to wish a Happy Birthday to the lovely ladies who celebrate their Birthday in the month of March!!!!

Gena V. 3/1

Julie H. 3/6

Renee L. 3/21

February Birthday Girls!!!!

The Gold Coast Lady Anglers would like to wish a Happy Birthday to the lovely ladies who celebrate their Birthday in the month of February!!!!




Anne C. February 4th

Kathy W. February 8th

Tina N. February 10th

Meli F. February 23rd.

Sally Jo M. February 25th

Sophia H. February 27th

Shirley M. February 28th