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June 8, 2011 Hello gang, We have had a little mix in the counts this week with rockfish, sand bass, cuda and a couple of white seabass including this 51 pounder caught by Gus Sansun. We have some open party dates next week and you could check our calender link to see our schedule. If you are interested in getting on the boat on one of these days call 805 382 1612 to make a reservation. You can also find us on FACEBOOK as well. See ya on the water, Shawn Aloha Sportfishing WebsiteSmith On Surface Jig Fishing
Smith On Surface Jig Fishing
Shogun relief skipper Bruce Smith loves to fish the iron for yellowtail, and sometimes for tuna and other game species. Here are some of his latest thoughts on that aspect of long range fishing, as posted on the shogun’s web site:
Spectra’s Not Always Best
We had more great action on the good quality yellowtail today. Most of these are in the 18 to 22 pound range with the occasional 25 to 35-pounder in the mix.
Everything (standard yellowtail fare) was working today flylined sardines: 3/4 oz. sliding sinker, yo-yo heavy jigs and Surface Iron. The Neapolitan 7Xs were issuing ice cream headaches, ouch, and the Mambas have a poison treble bite. Ha.
I should re-phrase the "today" comments for the fact that we were basically done with our yellowtail counts by 11:30 this morning. We sat and had lunch on the anchor then pulled it and started to head up the line. The weather has not come down and as we climb in latitude we are bucking and rolling around.
There always seem to be a small contingent of core surface iron fishers on each trip and this one being no different. Some of the guys are fishing mono, some are trying out the spectra with a short top shot of fluoro or mono, and then there is the spectra-to-wire set-up. What is good to see is that passengers are realizing that you don't have to have the old school 10-foot rods to have the same amount of fun. If you are more comfortable with a nine or eight foot jig rod then go with that. Seeker SS 6480, Cal-Star GG 900M or 900H work great, don't feel that you have to learn how to throw 300 feet with a 10 or 11 foot antique to be able to get bit with the surface iron. In the last couple of days many yellowtail, including that monster 50 pounder, bit within 75 feet of the boat and I guarantee that everyone of those fish raised the blood pressure of the angler retrieving the jig and the angler next to him, "Wow, did you see that fish eat my jig!!"
Some thoughts on color. Salas 7X are king down here, hands down. If you come down here you should have some in your box. Does the color matter? Yes and no. The color truly matters to me when I go and tie on a jig, bright colors, a shiny or different paint job gives me more confidence when I throw it out there. Are there more important concerns other than color, of course, if your jig doesn't swim, get rid of it. But, when it comes down to what I tie on at the beginning of the trip, an old stand-by with no paint left on it or a bright new Green Mamba(which to me is the hottest color out this year with it's iridescent and segmented paint scheme) I go with the Green Mamba or this trip a Neapolitan was the only jig wired to the spectra. Both of these jig colors caught fish over the last three days, but the fish were biting. There are definite times when you notice that one color out fishes another, usually it seems to go between lights and darks or maybe something in the middle like green/yellow or scrambled egg. My stance on all of this is go out to your local tackle shop, spend nine dollars and buy yourself the hottest newest color out there and you will be glad you did. It will give you a piece of mind, confidence, and that is the most important lure, jig, surface iron in my box. As far as those Neapolitans go, well good luck trying to find them, they are probably a limited run, but if you are lucky and find one, then keep it in hands they will be a collectors item.
Spectra to wire. This rig is my number one choice for fishing the surface iron. It's fun, hard hitting, casts well, impact and chafe resistant, kelp resistant, but it's not always the best rig to fish with. In the two years that I have been using this rig almost exclusively I have come across four times that I felt that the yellows didn't bite the spectra to wire, remember that's four times in two years of fishing on a long range boat for yellowtail. The most humbling experience didn't come on the deck of the Shogun but handed to me by Buzz on the Prowler. He kicked my butt at the local islands while using mono to wire, so it told me it's not the wire. On this day as soon as I switched to a short (four feet) fluoro leader I started to get bit. Go figure. The next instance is barracuda fishing. The barries eat the spectra to wire with relish, they don't have a problem with it, what the problem is that you can't get the darn things to the boat. Once hooked the barracuda shakes its head while being reeled in and they come off. This was the most apparent during the last Monterey Bay collection trip, in the morning I hooked 10 barracuda and landed one. That afternoon I had to try something different and spooled up with straight 40-pound mono, tied to the 7X Jr. fixed single hook. I landed 9 out of 10. That was an eye opener. Sometimes it's good to use mono.
Shogun relief skipper Bruce Smith loves to fish the iron for yellowtail, and sometimes for tuna and other game species. Here are some of his latest thoughts on that aspect of long range fishing, as posted on the shogun’s web site:
Spectra’s Not Always Best
We had more great action on the good quality yellowtail today. Most of these are in the 18 to 22 pound range with the occasional 25 to 35-pounder in the mix.
Everything (standard yellowtail fare) was working today flylined sardines: 3/4 oz. sliding sinker, yo-yo heavy jigs and Surface Iron. The Neapolitan 7Xs were issuing ice cream headaches, ouch, and the Mambas have a poison treble bite. Ha.
I should re-phrase the "today" comments for the fact that we were basically done with our yellowtail counts by 11:30 this morning. We sat and had lunch on the anchor then pulled it and started to head up the line. The weather has not come down and as we climb in latitude we are bucking and rolling around.
There always seem to be a small contingent of core surface iron fishers on each trip and this one being no different. Some of the guys are fishing mono, some are trying out the spectra with a short top shot of fluoro or mono, and then there is the spectra-to-wire set-up. What is good to see is that passengers are realizing that you don't have to have the old school 10-foot rods to have the same amount of fun. If you are more comfortable with a nine or eight foot jig rod then go with that. Seeker SS 6480, Cal-Star GG 900M or 900H work great, don't feel that you have to learn how to throw 300 feet with a 10 or 11 foot antique to be able to get bit with the surface iron. In the last couple of days many yellowtail, including that monster 50 pounder, bit within 75 feet of the boat and I guarantee that everyone of those fish raised the blood pressure of the angler retrieving the jig and the angler next to him, "Wow, did you see that fish eat my jig!!"
Some thoughts on color. Salas 7X are king down here, hands down. If you come down here you should have some in your box. Does the color matter? Yes and no. The color truly matters to me when I go and tie on a jig, bright colors, a shiny or different paint job gives me more confidence when I throw it out there. Are there more important concerns other than color, of course, if your jig doesn't swim, get rid of it. But, when it comes down to what I tie on at the beginning of the trip, an old stand-by with no paint left on it or a bright new Green Mamba(which to me is the hottest color out this year with it's iridescent and segmented paint scheme) I go with the Green Mamba or this trip a Neapolitan was the only jig wired to the spectra. Both of these jig colors caught fish over the last three days, but the fish were biting. There are definite times when you notice that one color out fishes another, usually it seems to go between lights and darks or maybe something in the middle like green/yellow or scrambled egg. My stance on all of this is go out to your local tackle shop, spend nine dollars and buy yourself the hottest newest color out there and you will be glad you did. It will give you a piece of mind, confidence, and that is the most important lure, jig, surface iron in my box. As far as those Neapolitans go, well good luck trying to find them, they are probably a limited run, but if you are lucky and find one, then keep it in hands they will be a collectors item.
Spectra to wire. This rig is my number one choice for fishing the surface iron. It's fun, hard hitting, casts well, impact and chafe resistant, kelp resistant, but it's not always the best rig to fish with. In the two years that I have been using this rig almost exclusively I have come across four times that I felt that the yellows didn't bite the spectra to wire, remember that's four times in two years of fishing on a long range boat for yellowtail. The most humbling experience didn't come on the deck of the Shogun but handed to me by Buzz on the Prowler. He kicked my butt at the local islands while using mono to wire, so it told me it's not the wire. On this day as soon as I switched to a short (four feet) fluoro leader I started to get bit. Go figure. The next instance is barracuda fishing. The barries eat the spectra to wire with relish, they don't have a problem with it, what the problem is that you can't get the darn things to the boat. Once hooked the barracuda shakes its head while being reeled in and they come off. This was the most apparent during the last Monterey Bay collection trip, in the morning I hooked 10 barracuda and landed one. That afternoon I had to try something different and spooled up with straight 40-pound mono, tied to the 7X Jr. fixed single hook. I landed 9 out of 10. That was an eye opener. Sometimes it's good to use mono.
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Thursday, June 9, 2011
Salas Catches 2011
Shawn StewardCatalina Seabass
7x Heavy
Chuck Melber Jr.
AllCoast 8 Day on the Intrepid
Scrambled Egg Yellowtail
7x Heavy
Hey Gang
Check out sample of Trophy Catches for the 2011 Season from our Loyal Salas Customers. Cbass and Yellows start out the year from Catalina all the way down to The Ridge. Thank you all for sharing your Kodak Moments with us!
Check out sample of Trophy Catches for the 2011 Season from our Loyal Salas Customers. Cbass and Yellows start out the year from Catalina all the way down to The Ridge. Thank you all for sharing your Kodak Moments with us!
Chuck Melber Jr.AllCoast 8 Day on the Intrepid
Scrambled Egg Yellowtail
Bruce SmithShogun
On the Neapolitan colored 7x?
Ugly Works - Report Courtesy of Bruce Smith Shogun Sportfishing and Fishing Videos.com (Thank you Paul Sweeney)
“We hit up the upper part of The Ridge,” wrote Shogun skipper Bruce Smith June 6, “and had fairly decent action on good sized yellowtail. 90% of the fish came on heavy vertical type jigs, as we commonly see when the water temps are in the high 50's to low 60's. The Salas 6x in Python color was a hot ticket along with blue and white. On my first cast of the day, literally just to straighten my spectra out, I hooked a yellow and lost it, then promptly hooked another, this second one is making its way to the dinner table tonight. What was sort of cool was that it was on Salas 7x, Neapolitan color (white, brown and Pink), I saw these on FB one day a couple weeks ago and made a smart remark about those were the ugliest surface iron I had ever seen and where could I get one? Our local Salas rep Tom Spayne is on this trip and just happen to bring us some of those new crazy looking Neapolitan colored 7x's. Well, I'm here to say they work.”
“Afternoon Was On Fire!” - June 9 2011
Published in General “This morning was a little on the slow side,” wrote Bruce Smith for the Shogun June 7, “this afternoon was on fire! Again most of the yellows were in that 18 to 22 pound range, but we landed some real brutes, up to 50 pounds and most of the really big fish today came on the surface iron, Salas 7X ruled for sure. Crazy as it sounds, we are still in this cold water, 60.7 degrees to be exact, and contrary to belief, the yellows wanted to bite with a vengeance. Like I stated earlier, it wasn't the yo-yo bite we had yesterday. The fish ate the flylined sardine well enough along with the 6X Jr's. fished near the bottom.”
“Big fish honors go out to Andrew Craig for landing a lifetime surface iron yellowtail that will go over 50 pounds. That fish ate his chrome/green 7X literally twenty feet from the stern, it was an awesome sight!”
Thanks again for tying on our Lures!
“We hit up the upper part of The Ridge,” wrote Shogun skipper Bruce Smith June 6, “and had fairly decent action on good sized yellowtail. 90% of the fish came on heavy vertical type jigs, as we commonly see when the water temps are in the high 50's to low 60's. The Salas 6x in Python color was a hot ticket along with blue and white. On my first cast of the day, literally just to straighten my spectra out, I hooked a yellow and lost it, then promptly hooked another, this second one is making its way to the dinner table tonight. What was sort of cool was that it was on Salas 7x, Neapolitan color (white, brown and Pink), I saw these on FB one day a couple weeks ago and made a smart remark about those were the ugliest surface iron I had ever seen and where could I get one? Our local Salas rep Tom Spayne is on this trip and just happen to bring us some of those new crazy looking Neapolitan colored 7x's. Well, I'm here to say they work.”
“Afternoon Was On Fire!” - June 9 2011
Published in General “Big fish honors go out to Andrew Craig for landing a lifetime surface iron yellowtail that will go over 50 pounds. That fish ate his chrome/green 7X literally twenty feet from the stern, it was an awesome sight!”
Thanks again for tying on our Lures!
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