My sister and I went for the 9-3 half-day today. Luke was driving the boat and we went up the line to the pipe first thing. Fishing there was slow, with just a few browns coming over the rail. I did get some deep gashes in my swimbait that looked suspiciously like halibut but that was all.

Water temps were 61, not super clear, but not bad either - perhaps 10 foot visibility. We went all the way up to Naples around 11am which was cool. Unfortunately the bass were not in the mood to bite - at all. One nice cabezon came over the rail, and a tiny little barracuda.

Sliding back down the line we did some rockfishing and brought in a fair number of browns. J and I caught about a half a dozen, with one nice big fat one. Last stop was a kelp up shallow off Ellwood. The kelps were laid down nicely and I caught a nice calico on the 5" #13 baitfish Big Hammer that took the jackpot. I released the fish.

So fishing was pretty slow, but the weather was beautiful and the crowd was mellow. It's hard to go out there and not have a good time on the Starudst :) Today was no exception.

calico on the Big Hammer
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my sister with some nice brown rockfish
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fish puke and a jackpot sticker, the summation of all things ocean fishing
http://www.calfishing.com/files/Images/daily_reports/8_14_07_rob_jp_sticker.jpg

Nice sticker Dude... You gotta make that your avatar.

Nice calico, i've been going out on the stardust about once a week lately. The bass still seem to be pretty slow but hopefully they'll pick up again soon. I'll probably be going out on Thurs if anyone will be out there let me kno.