October 19, 2001
Striper / 4:30 am / Hotel Coral, Ensenada
Josh, Mike, Steve & Pete Wolf of Leapin' Bass Custom Rods (leapinbass.com) headed out but we heard of the bumpy conditions outside & decided to head up the baja coast for some bass fishing. We dropped Mike back @ the hotel & headed for salsapuentes. We fished the kelp at the N end of the bay for 40+ bass up to 7 lbs. All were caught on a variety of plastics & released. Lingcod, sandbass & rockfish also made it into the mix. We tried around miguel for a few. Arrived @ Hotel 1:30 pm.

October 20, 2001
Striper / 5:30 am / Hotel Coral, Ensenada
With very calm conditions on saturday the same crew headed on a 230 deg. heading for 39 miles until the 64 Deg. water jumped to 66.6. We put the jigs in & worked the edge picking a fish here & there but getting 1 bait fish on each stop. We had 8 or 9 15-20lb class albies for the morning but experienced a mid-day lull with the exception of a blind jig strike by a 12 lb dorado followed by another one that ate both a sardine thrown by Pete & a plastic thrown by Josh. Early afternoon we got a triple that went WFO for about 1.5 hrs till we were out of bait. All the fish were 15-20 lbs with 2 about 30 lbs. Arrived @ Hotel 1:30 pm.

October 21, 2001
Striper / 5:30 am / Hotel Coral, Ensenada
Sunday we went for a short day of bass fishing around Punta Banda. Fishing was very slow w/only 3 bass caught but 2 were 4 lbs. A few sm. lings & olive rockfish later we decided to head in. In the middle of Ensenada bay we spotted boils & birds crashing so we stopped & caught & released a bunch of bonito on the bass gear. They hit trolled plastics & rapala’s or by throwing iron.

Hey Josh,
Thanks for the report, keep em comin. Nice website, BTW ;-)
-Brian

Thanks Brian,
I'll make more of an effort to post reports. Thanks for the compliment on the website. Pete has really been a big help putting it all together.
JOSH

What a blast! Pig calicos, WFO Tuna, double hookup on one dorado, I couldn't ask for more!!

This was the maiden trip for my Loomis HS932/Penn 955/15 lb. Maxima. I built the rod specifically for fishing Calicos with plastic and I made the right choice. Handles 20 lb. Albacore quite nicely as well!!! :)

Some of the pictures are up - they start here:

http://team-striper.com/photo_album/2001/011019a.htm

http://team-striper.com/photo_album/photos/2001/011020d.jpg

http://team-striper.com/photo_album/photos/2001/011020c.jpg

Man, you guys konked them big time! That must have been a blast.
Any pics of the big calicos? Thanks for the reports guys.

http://team-striper.com/photo_album/photos/2001/011019a1.jpg
http://team-striper.com/photo_album/photos/2001/011019a2.jpg
http://team-striper.com/photo_album/photos/2001/011019b1.jpg
http://team-striper.com/photo_album/photos/2001/011021a1.jpg
http://team-striper.com/photo_album/photos/2001/011021a2.jpg

uhuhuhuh, that looks like WAAAY too much fun. Awesome pics.
-Brian

great pics of those monter calicos. havent seen any that
big since last trip out of point loma. if you have any
more pics keep them coming.



harbor rat.

Just go to the website - lots of great fishing pictures (http://team-striper.com)

By the way the hot colors were Clear/Red-Flake and Calico Hunter II (thanks Larry!). Got a few on Olive and Green Sardine.