Golly your place was popping! Looks fun, and delicious...

Quote from: Latimeria on July 01, 2025, 08:38:09 PMDamn, you're getting pretty good with that bow!

I was "practising" all morning on the ones with there backs sticking out of the water. Lol...
Got better when shooting at the ones further out and under water. Also seems to help when I'm shooting at a single fish.

- Keith

Went again to Lake Elsinore sunrise of 7/26/2025 and found the carp were actively feeding along the shoreline again. Lots of groups of carp in the shallows with their backs sticking up out of the water.



They were on the shoreline for about an hour after sunrise and then went further out like last time.

This was only a recon trip since I haven't found a place to easily dispose of them yet.

I did bring a fishing pole and some corn but even casting into the middle of them and dragging my line across there backs didn't get much reaction. Maybe a night crawler would've done better.

Anyway, got more intel. Now I need to talk to our local waste disposal company to find out if they can offer a way to dispose of the fish without putting it in my normal trash and stinking up their trucks.

- Keith

Bravo boss. I appreciate the noodle rod throwing chovie for yellows. I'll re-comment again tomorrow. Got back from a party and have early plans.

I'm back from a trip and realize I didn't take a single picture on my own phone. I may or may not supplement co-worker's photos later...

The Shimano reel service team grinds out Blackfish Charter's reels for free in exchange for a full day trip or two each summer. So this one took us to San Clemente Island in hopes of yellows, and then a little check on the cow tuna chewing just north of the island.

Boarded the boat at 0500. I immediately dipped into the bunks. 0700 I lost my breakfast...was a little bumpy out there, guess I lost my sea legs after not being out in 9 months.

Got to the island maybe before 0800. Calicos instantly fired up in the chum line along with some yellows showing. We only had anchovies for bait, which made things challenging for the most part. I was planning to use my new Talica 8 all day but quickly realized it wasn't worth a sh!t with a little anchovy to cast. Thankfully, I brought along my surf steelhead rod as a joke. The captain noticed it within minutes and said, "Damn, that's the play today!" and just grabbed it off the rack and started playing with it. I said aight, give it here.

Tied on a #4 mustad to 15# leader (6# braid), hooked an anchovy, and tossed it twice as far as anybody with their baitcasting and conventional gear. It was instantly wide open for me, bit every cast, probably coming tight 1/3 times. Borderline legal calicos. I probably ended up outfishing everyone 2:1 on the calicos due to the casting distance advantage alone.

But the yellows kept teasing us. Then Kevin got one on the iron.



Then Robert got a solid 10-12lber.



Then I got a sizzling drag run on my noodle, and got busted clean off in about 5 seconds. I need a yellow on the perch rod!!!! I got some redemption with a 5lb bonito a few minutes later. I think everybody got at least one.

We moved a couple times, but generally had a steady pick on schmedium calicos til noon, when we decided to head over to the party offshore for bluefin. They had landed a couple of cows earlier in the week on the kite, so hopefully it would be our turn to bring home the meat.





We arrived to the AO with about a dozen other boats of all statures and affiliations, not nearly as windy as forecasted and small spots of tuna foaming. Many kites were up, none coming down. We tried for almost 2 hours, with one short bite that I didn't see, then we headed back in.

I'm pretty beat. Thankfully few wanted their bonito so I brought home a nice big bag that should last a while. Very good day with the boys.

Quote from: jrodda on July 22, 2025, 06:19:03 PMWifey better be giving you excellent grades lately! That looks amazing.

She doesn't like to give me any props since she gets disgusted when her friends tell her how lucky she is.  lol

Quote from: KogaHead on July 22, 2025, 07:20:30 PMWelcome to the zebra club

It lives!   

Quote from: Tim524 on July 22, 2025, 06:25:09 PMSelling rods and buying rods

Selling more and buying less is what I'm hoping to accomplish.  lol

Welcome to the zebra club

That place is wall to people Friday and Saturday night fishing for dinner