Friday, August 19, 2011

Shogun Report August 18, 2011


“The yellowtail bit well for us most of the day. We made numerous stops, some of the fish didn't react at all and some of the schools came right to the stern boiling and biting everything that was thrown at them. It was classic drift fishing for yellowtail in this area, most of fish coming in at the 15 to 22-pound category. We have been blessed with outstanding weather so far in this trip; in fact I think some of the guys are sporting sunburns after today

Looks like the funny Neo-politen Colored Jig did it again

Report courtesy of the Shogun Sportfishing and Fishingvideos.com


Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Near-Limits: Tuna & Yellowtail

Hey Gang

We love it when we surf the web for fishing reports on websites like FishingVideos.com and see a Happy Angler with a Trophy Catch as a result of one of our lures. Check out the recent report for the Shogun. Thank you Bill Roecker and Paul Sweeney for the great job on your website!

Seeker chartermaster Pat Doyle of San Diego stood in with the winners, with his Rollo Jackpot-winning 42.5-pound yellowtail, a slug he picked up on a Salas PL 68 jig in a sort of squid multi-color pattern.


Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Paul Prichard...6xjr Blue/White Salas

Paul Prichard...6xjr Blue/White Salas

From: matt salas [mailto:salaslures@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 8:37 AM
To: bob
Subject: Fw: Salas jig

Hey YO....new pic for the blog Paul Prichard...6xjr blue/wht salas arigato



Thank you Paul for the Great Shot - Nice Yellow!
Another Satisfied Customer!

Saturday, July 16, 2011

Subject: Cedros Island Report


From: Duane Broadway [mailto:dbroadway@cedrosadventures.com]

Subject: Cedros Island Report

Good Afternoon Anglers.

June 20th-27th saw the first "Performance Tackle" 8 day of the Year, Including shop owner Marc Higashi and Owner Pro Staffer Sergio Fainsztein of Radio Outdoor Expeditions. As one would expect, this was one of the most epic fishing trip Cedros Island has ever seen, considering the collective talent of this 9 man group. The Biomass at Cedros Island definitely afforded each Angler the opportunity to accomplish some phenomenal mixed bag fishing. Calico's came in the expected quality and quantity. With 100 to 400 fish to 8.5lbs per Angler for the trip. Yellowtail fishing was also fantastic for what would be considered early season anywhere else. Tails to 44 lbs came on everything from YoYo'd Jigs and surface Iron, to Bass rods and Plastic swimbaits. One tanker was even hooked on a Diawa hard jerkbait! Really all species came in as many numbers as you wanted, we could only pull so much! A high quality problem to have your limiting factor be your arms.


Other species caught on this trip included fantastic numbers of Halibut, Barracuda, Bonita, enormous SheepHead, even a few Spotties, Sandies and a nice Grouper on the Plastic! I have never seen any other place in the world where one can sight-fish for SheepHead as Sergio did. On our way back to be dropped back off at Performance Tackle where we were picked up. Anglers commented as to the difficulty of remembering just how many of these fish were caught and released. Awesome!

As for the Hotel. One Angler was heard saying he would be returning for another trip on arrival at the Hotel! Fishing had not even begun yet, as we were on the Island for all of 20 minutes! Imagine eating your dinner cliff side. Watching the waves break, and scanning the area for the fish you are going to be catching. This Hotel as been a long time coming and a Labor of Love. Most Guests on this trip commented that it was nothing like they expected. "You know...not you average Fishing Hotel" as one Angler put it.

As usual. The Pangas and the service from the Captains was unsurpassed. Each member of the Cedros Adventures Staff put in long hard days. Sometimes 10 to 16 hours. Everyone from the Porters, fish cleaners, Captains, Drivers, Maid service, worked hard to ensure a memorable trip for the quests.

Weather was typical June West Coast weather. A little breeze here and there with average temps.




Food!? Forget about it. As always the Staff and Adrian out did themselves with Appetizers each day. Asada, fish from Yellowtail to Whitefish to Black Seabass, RibEye steaks, Lobster, you name it. We even had Birthday cake, as 3 Birthdays came during this trip. Awesome!


As for the Schedule. If you are considering a trip this year. Take a look at the booking calendar on the website (cedrosadventures.com) Anything that is blank is available for Anglers on our end. Get your buddies together and itching. Pick a trip that is good for you, we will make sure the plane seats are available and off you go! As always. If you have any questions, comments or just wanna talk fishin. Give me a call.



Hope everyone has a great season. Look forward to helping you plan your Cedros Adventure. Tight Lines!

Duane and the Crew at Cedros Adventures. SeaYa!

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Cole Chavira at Alijos Salas 6X jr

Cole Chavira on a recent trip to Alijos Rocks on the Intrepid

Subject: Cole Chavira at Alijos Salas 6X jr
From: "Mitchell Chavira"
Date: Wed, July 13, 2011 5:38 pm
To: mattsalas@originalsalaslures.com

I noticed your website said to send pictures of our catch. This is my 13 yr old son Cole Chavira on a recent trip to Alijos Rocks on the Intrepid. Hot jigs were the 7X Jr Dorado, the 6x jr Blue Sardine and the 6X jr green and yellow. Cole was the high stick of the day catching 15 yellowtail in the 30 - 40 lb range ALL on SALAS JIGS!

He loves to play Yo Yo.


Fish on,

Mitch Chavira
Carlsbad ca



Thank you for the Money Shot Mitch and Cole!



Saturday, June 11, 2011

Aloha Spirit News

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 Website

Smith 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 Sportfishing
Captains Norman Kagawa and Bruce Smith
(619) 226-8030 - Fisherman’s Landing


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Thank you Bruce!

Tanker Seabass

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Tanker Seabass

Good One!

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Salas Catches 2011

Shawn Steward
Catalina Seabass
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!

Chuck Melber Jr.
AllCoast 8 Day on the Intrepid
Scrambled Egg Yellowtail

Bruce Smith
Shogun
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.”

“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!

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Albacore Caught On Journey South!

From Fishing Videos.com - Thank you Bill and Paul!

American Angler skipper Sam Patella called his wife, office manager Lori Patella Sunday morning to say the boat had just caught two albacore of 15 to 18 pounds at 239 miles from San Diego, on the way to destinations south. The fish were likely trolled, but that information and more should be forthcoming later this evening.

Other boats that left yesterday include the Intrepid, Qualifier 105 Red Rooster III and Royal Star. Reports from them will also begin to come in soon.


Time to get Ready Gang!

Saturday, May 28, 2011

Aloha Spirit News

Recent News
May 25, 2011 We are open party on Tues. the 31st and Thurs. the 2nd of June. We also have a charter on Saturday June 4th that has a few spots that we need people for. 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 and the crew.



Sunday, May 22, 2011

iWindSurf.com

iWindSurf.com is a great website to get a great look and forecast for Wind. I was clued in by Shawn Steward of the Aloha Spirit for a Charter I set up and it was a good website to use during the unpredictable Spring Time Fishing Season. Check it out and Bookmark the Website. Thank You

Saturday, May 21, 2011

41 halibut and 4 white sea bass

41 halibut and 4 white sea bass, out of Santa Barbara today.
From the Apollo Facebook Page - Travis looks stoked!