12/31/06 Rockcod /Bonito out in Carmel Bay/Non-yak

Went out of Monterey Bay with a friend on his PB for some last day of rockcoding. The water was pretty ruff out by the point so we stayed clear from that spot. We found an area close buy that was not to swelley and started to hook-up on some small blues. The next drop down i felt a hit on the way down at first i thought it was a nother blue. But as I got it closer to the boat it appeared to be a mackerel and as soon as i got his head out of the water it shook loose but not before we got A good look. turned out it was a small Bonito. I thought to my self, no way not this far up the coast in the winter. 

At this time we got a call from another Friend that was fishing near Carmella bay and gave us a report that they just caught a ten pound Bonito while jigging for rockcod. We got pretty excited and couldn't decide if we wanted to go that far since the weather  wasn't looking to good. We decided to take the chance and went for it . My buddy had a few Bonito jigs so we  rig them up and started to troll 3-4 nots towards Carmel.  the conditions on the way was turning to are favor and the ocean started to calm-down next thing we saw was one of the rods go bendo and the reel screaming... my friend picks the  rod up and started to battle the fish. after 10 or 15minutes we land the 12lb. Bonito. It wasn't wide open or anything close to it, but we ended the rockcode season with are limit and a bonus of a 12, 7 , and 13lb Bonito's


I will try to post some pictures soon.

Happy New Years! 07'

 

Bro this is getting freaky.  You catch birds, you catch whitefish in Monterey, you catch warm water fish in freakin cold weather, what next?  When the swell calms down a bit lets do some sandabbing.  Or should I say I'll do some dabbing, you probably will pick up a dorado!

Congrats on the mixed bag

Eugene

That is very cool!
Good job on the bonito, alien! Does not happen often...you must have really good luck. Might be time to buy a lotto ticket LOL!

Thanks for the report!
PK

Cool! it is an el nino, just not real strong and monterey is pretty south for nor cal!

maybe next year will be interesting!

J

Rock on Alex!!! I personally don't like the bonito to eat but they are really fun to catch.  No sand dabs?

Scott

Hey, thanx guys!

 I'm a little slow on the pic's but here's what i have.....


alex

fortunately, alien seems to be a guy that can eat anything!

must have been a blast to pull those speedsters in!

WOW, those are some monster bonito!!!

They are spectacularly fun to catch.  You are a lucky guy.

MolBasser