M.O.~CEDROS

Nice!

Man, that party was nuts!  The photos tell a great story.

Don't know the first thing about YT but is it common to hold them by pinching both eyes?  Looked kind of funny but what do I know.

Thanks for sharing!

Michael

hi pat, hi randy!!!  so glad you caught some fish.

Hi Chris...

Long time, man!  Yeah, one of the very coolest parts of the trip for me was when Pat and I were were fishing together and had simultaneous hookups. Dumped our yt skunks at the same time!

Great report folks!

OMG     That trip seems like its worth banking up the dough and WAF.  Very very nice.

This was a trip I have dreamed of doing for a long time. My first time fishing warm water salt species. Being able to do it with some of my NCKA brothers was fantastic!! What a great group of folks Sean and Paul put together. I was honored to be a part of it. Thank you guys for all your efforts!! The Islander crew was second to none, and the boat was awsome!! Food off the hook and the service beyond any expectations. I learned a ton along with having a great time. Had the oportunity for a couple sleigh rides, and wore my arms out on the boat. Those yellowtail pull like nothing I've ever fought before. The captain did his best to try and provide us oportunities to fish from the yaks, but with the weather conditions being windier than normal, our choices were limited. Trying to find a combination of a spot calm enough for the yaks and have productive YT waters was a challenge. I think everyone got at least one on the yak before we cleaned up on the big boat, filling the holds in one day. It was an insane bite!!! On a calm day that spot would have been mayham on the water!!! Sure showed the potential with cooperating weather. Everyone got along wonderfully which makes or breaks any trip. Certainly a great introduction to the warmwater fisheries for me. A big thanks to Sean and Paul and the rest of the group for such a great time. Mother nature put on quite a show also, from flying fish, to acres of dolphins, crimson sunsets and rises, and of course the swarms of yellowtail we came into. Now what to do with all this fish....... feeding plenty of friends and neighbors and the boyz at the firehouse.

Wild stuff folks, congrats on a great trip.

Justin,
I hope you are entering some photo contest with those.  More pictures please!
Joe

Unbelievable report and pictures everyone! I would love to experience that first hand! Congrats on all the personal bests and having the good karma to experience a wide open bite like that! 


-Eliot

... Seeing a school of 100 yellowtail that were all over 25lbs in only 15 feet of water.....

Wow, incredible stories! Bummer you did not get photos of the YT's but the photos you got are great! Did anyone dive with you, Justin or did you just solo?

John

One of many tales....

     On our thirty hour "ride" down the coast I was shown the ropes (literally) as the veterans demonstrated  their favorite knot tying techniques. One of the following days (all a blur) I returned to the Islander to grab a delicious snack of bagels, cream cheese, lox, capers and onions and was told by the crew the boat would be pulling anchor to relocate. I needed to retie my leaders and had just minutes to get back off the boat. I whipped out a couple quick knots, grabbed my snack, and hit the water. Once afloat I pinned on a 12" bait  and quickly deployed it in order to get to my snack.
     Seconds later a familiar zzzzzzzzzz sounded off and it was game on. The fish had a good  head start on me and by the time I got over her she was on the bottom doing her best to defeat me. At this point I thought I had the mother of all fish and couldn't gain an inch on her. Sean was nearby and I questioned him on how to get this fish to come up, he replied with something like..is that your little  Trevala? which I replied yup. He then added something along the lines of... your outmatched. I laid everything I had into that fish (wishing I had spent more time to retie my leader) and she started to move again. Seeming like forever the fish began to show some color....green color..WTF?? Up comes about two feet of woody kelp stock (all the foliage stripped clean), a football chunk of some sort of coral, a ten pound rock, followed by  a 31.8 lb YT. Needless to say gaffing the fish was a bit of a challenge with all that distraction above the quarry. The fish made it into the boat but the "reef" slipped away before I could snap a picture of it. That's one battle I will never forget.....

              i'm still speachless.....WTooCool!

One of my favorite forms of entertainment lately is talking to Allen while he's fighting a fish,  He gets all jacked up and overloads, brain shuts off and blurts out something like "not now Jonesz, too much input!! Something this man needs to learn is how to enjoy the moments    He's like a kid out there when he hooks up, with more genuine thrilled enthusiasm than a roller coaster ride...great stuff. He's soooo fun to mess with

One of my favorite forms of entertainment lately is talking to Allen while he's fighting a fish,  He gets all jacked up and overloads, brain shuts off and blurts out something like "not now Jonesz, too much input!! Something this man needs to learn is how to enjoy the moments    He's like a kid out there when he hooks up, with more genuine thrilled enthusiasm than a roller coaster ride...great stuff. He's soooo fun to mess with

and i too, think he loves it when you do that!   

One of my favorite forms of entertainment lately is talking to Allen while he's fighting a fish,   He gets all jacked up and overloads, brain shuts off and blurts out something like "not now Jonesz, too much input!! Something this man needs to learn is how to enjoy the moments     He's like a kid out there when he hooks up, with more genuine thrilled enthusiasm than a roller coaster ride...great stuff. He's soooo fun to mess with

and i too, think he loves it when you do that!    

When fishing, hunting, or any other of form of adventure no longer "jacks me up" .....the first guy to answer my Craig's List ad is gonna be one  happy dude....