Offshore SCI and Local offshore 5/21

[DavidKem]

Grabbed a beautiful scoop of bait and made the run over to SCI from Dana on 5/21. Picked up a 6lb Yellow on a paddy about 20 miles shy of the Island. Checked a bunch of other paddies from about the 209 out to the Island but none were holding. Fished the cove in tight and for a pair of small but legal Halibut and quite a few missed opportunities. Once that got slow, picked up a few rockfish just south of the island in 300ft and rather than search for yellows or other Island critters, we decided to go check out the recent Tuna zone about 10-12 miles due south of SCI. Arrived right around 1:30pm for the slack tide. There was a lot of life (birds diving, small schools of breezing fish) and a few of the sport boats in the area. Saw a guy pinned to the bow of the Thunderbird on a serious fish and saw some big explosions on their chumline. Made a few drifts on some meter marks for nada and tried trolling the Madmacs around for a little while to no avail. With a long run back to the dock and the signs of life backing off, we decided to call it around 3:00pm. We did run across one small school of breaking fish on the SCI ridge, but they were skittish and went down quick. Beautiful weather, blue water and water temps between 61 and 63 degrees. 62 gallons burned. All in all great day out there, things seem to be picking up.

 

[wahoo_92606]

Thanks for the report, can't wait till the tunas show up at the SCI West and 499.

 

[DOGHOUSE26]

Thanks for the report, can't wait till the tunas show up at the SCI West and 499.

Yeah you and 6000 other boats

 

[Tunahead]

Cool report and info. At least you caught a few eaters. Looks like things coming to life now!!

 

[tunaslam]

Fun day, way to go guys!

 

[getaway]

nice

 

[Yong Yong]

Yeah you and 6000 other boats

C'mon now, there are only about 5750 PB'ers out there.

 

[bajachild]

Yeah you and 6000 other boats

I was at the 499, mackerel, snail, and beyond a lot last year. Never felt crowded. Had entire zones to ourselves.

 

[capt devo]

Grabbed a beautiful scoop of bait and made the run over to SCI from Dana on 5/21. Picked up a 6lb Yellow on a paddy about 20 miles shy of the Island. Checked a bunch of other paddies from about the 209 out to the Island but none were holding. Fished the cove in tight and for a pair of small but legal Halibut and quite a few missed opportunities. Once that got slow, picked up a few rockfish just south of the island in 300ft and rather than search for yellows or other Island critters, we decided to go check out the recent Tuna zone about 10-12 miles due south of SCI. Arrived right around 1:30pm for the slack tide. There was a lot of life (birds diving, small schools of breezing fish) and a few of the sport boats in the area. Saw a guy pinned to the bow of the Thunderbird on a serious fish and saw some big explosions on their chumline. Made a few drifts on some meter marks for nada and tried trolling the Madmacs around for a little while to no avail. With a long run back to the dock and the signs of life backing off, we decided to call it around 3:00pm. We did run across one small school of breaking fish on the SCI ridge, but they were skittish and went down quick. Beautiful weather, blue water and water temps between 61 and 63 degrees. 62 gallons burned. All in all great day out there, things seem to be picking up.

tough trip but very helpful for those in the planning stage!

 

[Fins in the Bin]

This weekend is the kick off to Googanville, so at least you had serenity on the last weekend prior. I'm going out with Googanvillers this weekend WOOHOO.

 

[DavidKem]

tough trip but very helpful for those in the planning stage!

I always appreciate timely reports when information is limited, so figured I'd throw one up.

 

[wahoo_92606]

I was at the 499, mackerel, snail, and beyond a lot last year. Never felt crowded. Had entire zones to ourselves.

Same here, the most I saw out there last year were 5-8 boats

 

[Cactus Chris]

I was at the 499, mackerel, snail, and beyond a lot last year. Never felt crowded. Had entire zones to ourselves.

Just depends if you chase boats or not. Lots of anglers locate fish by boats fishing and end up all clustered together especially around the sport boats

 

[Valiant]

Just depends if you chase boats or not. Lots of anglers locate fish by boats fishing and end up all clustered together especially around the sport boats

I never understood why this is a thing.

If you have a small boat, your advantages are:

1) you can find a smaller school of biting fish rather than having to find a massive school willing to commit suicide for 30+ anglers.

2) you have speed to cover a lot of water.

3) you don’t have 30 anglers so you can run the kite and troll while looking

Your disadvantages are:

1) lack of bait capacity to chum consistently. Usually no deck hand that will chum consistently since you are all fishing

2) lack of side scan sonar.

So if you are chasing the big boats, you are giving up all your advantages and fishing in a style that plays to all your disadvantages. You will never compete with a big boats chum ability.

It makes no sense, but it’s the majority strategy out there. Lol…

 

[lowprofile]

I never understood why this is a thing.

If you have a small boat, your advantages are:

1) you can find a smaller school of biting fish rather than having to find a massive school willing to commit suicide for 30+ anglers.

2) you have speed to cover a lot of water.

3) you don’t have 30 anglers so you can run the kite and troll while looking

Your disadvantages are:

1) lack of bait capacity to chum consistently. Usually no deck hand that will chum consistently since you are all fishing

2) lack of side scan sonar.

So if you are chasing the big boats, you are giving up all your advantages and fishing in a style that plays to all your disadvantages. You will never compete with a big boats chum ability.

It makes no sense, but it’s the majority strategy out there. Lol…

Most fishermen don’t know how to find fish. That’s why they fish for boats and look for little fishy icons on their chart plotters. If it doesn’t have a name to it it doesn’t hold fish, didn’t you know?

Even when I’m in my little inflatable and stop to pee another boat will come hauling ass out of nowhere with rods ready to throw on me.

 

[Valiant]

Most fishermen don’t know how to find fish. That’s why they fish for boats and look for little fishy icons on their chart plotters. If it doesn’t have a name to it it doesn’t hold fish, didn’t you know?

Even when I’m in my little inflatable and stop to pee another boat will come hauling ass out of nowhere with rods ready to throw on me.

Lol….

Last year I had a center console throw a colt sniper on my spread bar. It was awesome.

 

[lowprofile]

Lol….

Last year I had a center console throw a colt sniper on my spread bar. It was awesome.

I was just south of the 312 late last summer and heard a lot of commotion on the radio, someone was chasing a sport fishers spreader bars and ran them over …. It can be a scary place out there when people get mixed into the equation

 

[wasitrytofish]

End this post of how dumb all the other fisherman are. It wa a timely report. Thank him and move on. And go fishing. There are fish being killed in almost every direction from the dock and at every island. Pick your poison and go fishing.

 

[drew stephens]

Last year was a sh*t show. Luckily all the times boaters ran over my madmacs I saw it coming and stopped the boat to let them sink out. Private boats have the advantage of finding fish or kelps before the day boats get there. But it is pretty annoying when you’ve been working a patty with fish and a sporty comes up and rails 4 scoops of bait and pulls the fish away from you. How it goes I guess.