Mike & Josh Dunlap brought Ed Zubiate and Lance Wheeler out on the Striper for some salmon fishing out of Ventura. We ran up to the gap along with the fleet to find calmer seas, birds working & good conditions. Mike put 1 downrigger at 100 ft. with 15 lb. line, a green Krocodile and no flasher. I put the other around 150 with a flasher and a silver Kroc also on 15 lb., which was short bit within minutes. That same rod was knocked down again before Mike hooked up to our only short of the day. It was about 10:30 before Lance put the first fish in the box on rotary killer fished in the center with a release clip and 1 lb. ball on 20 lb. line.

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After that the green kroc was bit about every hour on the downrigger at 100ft. We lost quite a few before I sharpened the single hook then it got 4 in a row.

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We saw a lot of bait on the surface so we put a rotary killer on 12 lb. line behind a chrome 2 oz torpedo sinker & got 1 on the surface. Lots of fun on the long-limber Leapin’ Bass Custom Rod’s with light line, especially the jumps & runs they do when you get them to the surface.

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