ISLANDER 3.5 DAY - Reports on pg 44!

BTW - less than 2 months to go!! 

And I still need payment from 8 of you.  Guys, I just wrote a fat check out of my own pocket to cover this trip.  Please pay up, before I have to hunt you down.

-Allen

BTW - less than 2 months to go!! 

And I still need payment from 8 of you.  Guys, I just wrote a fat check out of my own pocket to cover this trip.  Please pay up, before I have to hunt you down.

-Allen

Borrow it if you have to.  We're actuallly late on the deposit payment.....Send to Sansano
as a "friend."

Bushy

Sending payment today guys. Sorry for the delay.

Sonny, can you PM me your paypal address or some way for Kevin to get you your deposit money, please?

So, the other day I went in to pick up my three newly refurbished Revo Toros and ended up leaving OPS with three refurbished Revo Toros and a Shimano Trevala/Penn Spinfisher V4500L combo loaded with 200 yards of 50lb PowerPro Maxcuatro. Should be a pretty sweet spin-trolling set-up. Medium fast action/medium light power rod has good bend and just enough backbone. Would be a blast to hook into a nice yellowtail or bonito with this set-up. 

Medium fast action/medium light power rod has good bend and just enough backbone. Would be a blast to hook into a nice yellowtail or bonito with this set-up. 

Nice setup!  Although I think that setup would be definitely fun to use, if fishing near structure where you need to worry about the YT breaking you off in kelp or rocks, that ML trevala will be a bit under-powered in my opinion.  I've seen this exact rod in action hooked up to a 20lbish tuna and it totally lacked the backbone needed to turn the fish.  The rod would just bend over and you couldn't turn the fish.  I would imagine it would be the same on a 20lb YT running for the kelp, but not sure. 

Damn, still envy all you dudes going on this trip...its gonna be a blast!! 

Good to know! Thanks, Won. The only other decent spinning rods they had at OPS were too stiff for trolling or just seemed too beefy.

I've been eyeing those Terez spinning rods.        Pricey though.

Yeah, they had a perfect Terez at OPS when I was in there a few weeks ago, but I started thinking for that price I might as well grab the Loomis that I liked....but both rods were gone last time I was in there. 

My new Teramar is pretty dope, but a little too stiff for proper trolling. Awesome for just about anything else, though!

This will be my first trip, maybe a stupid question, what kind of rigs should I prepare for this trip? Also, do people carpool to SD? Thanks!

What kind of fishing do you do up here, Tonggao?

For the most part, our typical rockfish/striper/halibut gear we use up here works just as well down there. I'll be fishing mostly dropper loops and fly-lined live bait, but cut bait fished on size 1 hooks under a 1 or 2oz egg sinker is a deadly set-up for sheepshead, calicoes, and whitefish. Throwing lures for calicoes is also fun, and pretty much a sure thing.

What kind of fishing do you do up here, Tonggao?

For the most part, our typical rockfish/striper/halibut gear we use up here works just as well down there. I'll be fishing mostly dropper loops and fly-lined live bait, but cut bait fished on size 1 hooks under a 1 or 2oz egg sinker is a deadly set-up for sheepshead, calicoes, and whitefish. Throwing lures for calicoes is also fun, and pretty much a sure thing.

Thanks a lot for the info! I mostly fish for rockfish here with jigs/swimbait/drop-loops and a couple of times for halibat with 3-way swivel. One thing I am a little confused is I mostly use size 7/0 hooks for rockfish here, size 1 hooks are way smaller but these fish you listed are still pretty big, should I downsize hook size in general?

What kind of fishing do you do up here, Tonggao?

For the most part, our typical rockfish/striper/halibut gear we use up here works just as well down there. I'll be fishing mostly dropper loops and fly-lined live bait, but cut bait fished on size 1 hooks under a 1 or 2oz egg sinker is a deadly set-up for sheepshead, calicoes, and whitefish. Throwing lures for calicoes is also fun, and pretty much a sure thing.

Thanks a lot for the info! I mostly fish for rockfish here with jigs/swimbait/drop-loops and a couple of times for halibat with 3-way swivel. One thing I am a little confused is I mostly use size 7/0 hooks for rockfish here, size 1 hooks are way smaller but these fish you listed are still pretty big, should I downsize hook size in general?

Sheepshead and especially whitefish have small mouths.  Using bigger hooks usually has them just stripping your bait off the hook.  I even drop down to #4 hooks sometimes.  I'll have various hooks from #4 to 4/0, and use the size appropriate to the bait or the target species.

-Allen

Thanks a lot Allen for the explanation!

Sheepshead and especially whitefish have small mouths. Not all have small mouths.