Quietman was fishing Doheny and Dana Point!

Spent quite a while on the water today, launched from doheny about 10am and landed about 4pm or so. Only stayed out so long because the FISHING ROCKED.

I started at the "money spot" and caught Halibut till I was tired of them. Caught 12, with three being easy keepers, one kept, the second largest at 33," the rest were short. And oddly quite a few were really short, like 16". I really haven't caught very many small 'butts at Doheny before.

Went and checked out the boiler rocks, and what do you know! The sand bass and rockfish were home. Caught a bunch, didn't count. You could sit and cast by the green lobster bouy and your jig wouldn't hit the bottom. I got broken off twice on Big somethings that wrapped me on the bottom/weeds whatever. Broke another 27# swivel.

Then headed into the harbor hoping the giant Barracuda were home. Nope, but non-stop action on short WSB and Barracuda to 27".

I also caught a couple YF croaker, some giant smelt and a sea slug!

All Halibut and Bass, Rockfish and croaker were caught on 4" power pulse worms rigged weedless.

All WSB, Barracuda and smelt were caught on rebel fastrac 4.5" in Orange/Gold. Deadly.

My arms were actually getting tired from cranking, and gaffing the one halibut I decided to keep got me soaked!

qm




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Way to go Quietman! thats a nice hali. this report is really getting me pumped up for tomorrow cause im gonna hit the harbor in the raft. i wasnt able to pick up the pulse worms that u had suggested but im really wishing i would have been able to. did u notice if there was lots of bait sized smelt in the harbor. i couldnt find the fastrak at sportmart so im hoping i can get some smelt to fly line for cuda.

nice report
mike

Hey quietman,
It sounds like you had a blast out on the water today!!!! Way to go!! Hey i wanted to know what pound test you use when you're out fishing these fish. Just curious, because you stated that you got broke off a couple of times?? On those power pulse worms,what colors do you use?? I've never used them before and it seems like you do pretty well on them?? How do you rig them?? Thanks in advance for the info. You got my blooding going, by seeing and reading this post.

FISHDAWG!!!!

Ok, John, rub it in...my feet are killing me from standing all day, lol. That is a great report. I met a fellow named Paul at the show who yaks over that way, maybe you know him? I saw a 29.8# 'but a diver speared sat morning off south laguna. From that and your report, the nice ones are certainly moving in. Take care.

David


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