Lucia Report

Today was yet again another extremely great experience on the water south of Big Sur. Fishing was better than two weeks ago. I had a great time hooking red snappers, coppers, china cod, olives,yellow tails, blues, gophers, and even caught a 24" ling. The vermilions were on the chew, with double hook-ups and reeling up two on one line/drop. Can't wait to do it again! Maybe Garrapata next time. Just realized my camera has stopped working :smt011Frustrating, so only cell phone pics on this post. If I can get it to work I'll post some better shots later

Nice fishing calbear!
Cellphone pics will have to do...we'll have to see what old man Ab says though.

Got the camera working, must have been operator error This is what I took home, though I caught well over twenty fish, easy

Nice catches.  Thanks for the report and pictures.

Nice fish Cal Bear.  What model of boat is that? 

I paddle a Wilderness Ripper and my friend Ernie there has a similar looking Spitfire.

Way to be, calbear.  The limit should be around 5 rockfish and a ling anyway... 

Cell phone pics will always do - old man Ab says, Oh yeah.   

Nice haul calbear, WTG!

Oh Yeah, great report calbear. Congrats on a GREAT day on the water

Thanks for the responses and props guys. I tend to agree with Abking on that, even with that ling I thought I should release it to allow it to grow, but being that it was my first so far this year,and a male, I decided to keep it. It was right on the line, not even an eighth over! It weighed 4 1/2 lbs. Still a pup but tasting delicious Tender meat is the best anyways

Great pics and report.Love double verm pic.

 Nice fish pictures, especially like the bendo shot. How do you sex a ling cod?

Great report. Where did you launch at Lucia?. I see a truck on the beach???????

Great report, looks like you guys launched at Mill Cr.  Did you guys paddle all that way north?

Awesome job Calbear! Props to you for only keeping 5 fish and also the smaller ling. I try to release all the bigger lings and some of the rockfish also because these are the breeder models and put out tons of eggs to help the population.
Besides the smaller lings are better table fare anyways.

-Eliot