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Hookups and Fishing Reports (Viewable by Public) / Paradise 7/18
« on: July 12, 2009, 10:21:59 PM »
Redyak and I are planning on fishing Paradise for Hali's on 7/18. I will be leaving at about 4:00 AM We should be launching about7:30, anyone wants to join in we will meet in the parking lot. Tides look good, don't know about the weather yet.
William_102

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I have tried for Halibut two times before to no avail. Time to give it another shot even thought the weather conditions forcast don't sound good. Got to hit it SOLO MISSION
I left my house at 5:00 am, at 6:45 I take the exit for Paradise and then it hits me "Oh Crap" forgot to get live bait. I turn around and go back to Loc Lomond and get what I need. Now it's time to get in the water. I get to the park and talked to the ranger. he tells me the weather was good yesterday and the wind never did come up, and people were catching fish. I launched at about 8:00 on a glassy bay with sunny skies(Surf trunks and Rash Guard weather).
I paddled out into about 17 feet of water and dropped down a halibut rig with a live shiner. The tide was going out very slowly and the wind which was almost nonexistent countered it, real SLOWWWW drift.
After about thirty minutes I feel a real light bump then my rod goes BENDO, the fight is on. I take some line in and he takes some out. I finally get him near the surface and "It's a Hali" my first one. I grab the net and get ready. He goes into the net and then right back out the other side. Down he goes for another run. After my heart skipped three beats I grab the rod and fight him back to the surface. This time he goes into the net for real, (Mental note to self, get bigger net). I grab the lip gripper and try to grab him and he starts snapping at me, fiesty little booger, he is obviously legal, time to put the bat to work. 26" Hali
I bait back up and start drifting again just enjoying the weather. About 45 minutes later I feel a little nibble. I put in free spool and wait, I feel a couple more nibbles and the he starts stripping line. I lock the spool and set the hook just like I was told. Fish on again. This one was not near as mad as the first one but did manage to soak me when I got him it the net. I could see he was bigger then the first so I put the bat back to work. Fish number two 29"
At about ten the wind started to come up, about 10 to 15 knots. I drifted until about 12:00 and paddled in with two fish in the boat. Going home happy, now I need to figure out how to fillet them, (Thanks Redyak)
I have several photos but am having problems posting them. Redyak should be posting one that he took at his house of me and my catch.
 :metal

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Hookups and Fishing Reports (Viewable by Public) / Clearlake 9/1 - 9/4
« on: August 29, 2006, 08:31:55 PM »
Anyone headed up to Clearlake. My family and I will be camping at Clearlake state park over the weekend. We will have the yaks and plan on doing some bass fishing. The last couple of week the reports say the bass have been going off. Hopefully the action will stay hot and heavy. If anyone is going to be in the area drop me a note and maybee we can hook up.

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Hookups and Fishing Reports (Viewable by Public) / Ocean Cove N. 8/26/06
« on: August 27, 2006, 08:39:46 PM »
Camped out Fri. night Sat. got up and headed down the trail at about 0730 hours. My two buddies and I all got our limit of abs, nothing huge 7 1/2 to 8". At about 1030 we took the yaks out of the cove and headed south towards Still Water. As soon as we stopped paddling we got sucked north hard. We were having trouble keeping out gear on the bottom, and if you tried you would get hung up pretty easy. There were alot of boats out. We had some luck catching some blues. I got one 16" and about 2 lbs. that I released. After about 1300 hours the wind and the current stopped and the ocean glassed off. We caught a few other smaller rock fish, Rosey, stary and gophers. At 1700 when I left the camp ground the wind had not picked up at all and the ocean was still glassy.

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If anyone is interested in joining in, my buddie Jim and I will be leaving Santa Rosa at 0500 hours. We should be at Still Water cove by 0600-0630. We will be doing some fishing and are going to try and get some abs.
the winds should be down in the morning and there might be a small south swell mixed in with a little north west wind swell, should be good fishing.

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Mahi Mahi and I are planning on going fishing at Ocean Cove on Sat. 7/15. My other friend will already be there with his kayak and be ready to fish. If anyone is interested you can meet us there. We have not set a time to leave Ukiah yet, but it will probably be early. I will post a time as soon as one is set. Low tide is at 8:52 and is -0.3

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