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37th Trip: Boccacio Limits and More on the SPECTRA 8-22-10

Sean Glumace — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:15:02 +0000

Got back out on the water again on the Spectra with a group of my regulars (Noreen, Michael and Dino) and my wife. No kids this trip. Fishing has been slow as of late in the local waters, but we had a full tank of live squid and some cured sardines from the previous day’s trip to Catalina. Left Pierpoint in Long Beach right at 6am and headed out to the boccacio hole. Dennis made everyone a big breakfast (sorry forgot to get at pic!).

Crew consisted of Captain Chris, Ted, Dennis and owner Billy. Got to the spot earlier than normal (didn’t need to stop by the bait barge) and dropped down. Currents on the surface were not bad, but on the bottom we were getting dragged all over even with 12oz sinkers. Michael got the first 2 on the 3rd drift.

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Finally got things right and we all started to hook up. My wife Hilda got her first two bocaccio on this trip.

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I’ll let the photos tell the story…

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I got one of the little ones for the day

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Got our limits of the salmon grouper on about 7 passes. Headed over to the sculpin grounds along with every other boat in the fleet. Got a good picking there.

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My wife and her first sculpin.

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Michael and his scuplin.

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Pulled up around noon and headed over to Izors to see what the bass would do with the live squid. Dennis made us all lunch as we headed over. I was getting pecked away on the whole live so I went with a circle hook and a strip and got a nice male sheephead.

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Not much happening on Izors so we called it a day and headed back to the barn. Everyone went home with big bags of filets and it was a beautiful day out on the water. Hotter then hell when we got back to the dock though.

End of the day

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One of the bags

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Once again Captain Chris, Billy, Dennis, Dino and Ted did a great job and put us on fish. It’s been hard out there as of late, and everytime we come home with limits or a big bag of fish. Looking forward to our overnight trip in mid September to San Clemente Island with the group!

36th Trip: Twilight Trip on the Spectra 7-27-10

Sean Glumace — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:48:16 +0000

Got back out on the water again with Spectra Sportfishing at Pierpoint Landing in Long Beach for a quick twilight run on 7-27. The reports coming in from all the landings were slow poor twilight fishing the last few days, but after talking it over with Billy the owner of Spectra earlier in the day we decided to head out anyway. I had a few new people in my group who had never been on the Spectra and were excited to get out on the water, fish or no fish, so we were not going to disappoint them. Got down to the landing early (around 6pm, traffic was moving great on the 405 for a change) with my son Jonathan, Noreen who has been coming on alot of my trips, Hung who has been on a few, Dino and my friends Alan and Greg who had not been out before. The Southern Cal was also going out with a light load for the twilight.

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Left the dock a little before 7pm to pick up some anchovies. We had live candy sized squid in the tanks as well, good bait all around.

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Headed right outside the entrance of Long Beach harbor to a spot that had been doing good. Only about a 25 minute run. Dropped anchor between all the big cargo ships at anchor.

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Dennis had got everyone rigged up, and we dropped on down. Jonathan hooked up right away on a sculpin.

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Turned into a steady bite on the spot, lots of scuplin, short and legal. We started to pull up sand bass as well, both short and legal. Had to wind fast on the sand bass, they would hit hard and go right into the structure and snag you up. Lost a lot of hardware that way.

More hookups…

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Noreen’s first sand bass.

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Alan’s first sculpin.

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As the night went on it was a nice steady fishing night. Much better than we expected. The cooler kept filling up little by little.

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Smiles all around…

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Jonathan’s nice sand bass.

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And another

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Bass!!

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Jonathan and a nice sculpin

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End of the night

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Fish for everyone…

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Wrapped it up around 11:30 and headed back to the barn. Ended up with around 30 sand bass and 18 sculpin on the boat, plus many released. Everyone had a great time, and once again Billy, Ted and Dennis (and Dino too!) did a great job helping everyone! Looking forward to the August and September trips!

35th Trip: Local Full Day on the Spectra 7-18-10

Sean Glumace — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 05:53:43 +0000

Got another group together this past Sunday 7-18 on board the Spectra for a full day local trip. Got down to the dock around 5:30am with my son Jonathan loaded up the equipment. My cousin Jason and his dad Mark came out on this one along with Lanny who I purchase my sinkers from and Chris. Left the dock right around 6:00am and headed out to the bait barge to pick up some dines and small anchovies. Had some live squid left in the tanks as well. Headed out to the salmon grouper spot to fill up the bags before searching for the sand bass and cuda.

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Got out to the spot and dropped on down, and hookups all around.

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Dennis and one nice bocaccio.

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Big one of the day.

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This first drop was one of the best first drops we’ve had at the hole. All big fish (lots of limits of 2 on the first drop) and we only did 2 more passes to come up just short of limits.

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2nd Pass.

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Headed back in to the flats along with the fleet. Did not find much and tried a few different spots. No love on the sand bass or cuda in the morning. Found a rock while heading over to Izors and anchored up. Dino got a nice ling.

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I pulled up a nice sheephead. There were also some big fish down there, grabbing the bait and tearing you off. Probably big lings or sheephead.

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Baby sculpin.

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Dennis cooked up a great breakfast and lunch for us. Plain and dry burger for Jonathan.

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At one of our stops off Huntington Beach and the flats (along with the fleet) we had back to back hookups on nice sized bat rays. Pulled Rick all over the boat. My uncle Mark also hooked up on one.

We finally got a few sand bass and calicos on board on a rock we found. They were in the structure, and if you did not hook and get them out of the rocks you hung up and lost them.

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Bass hookup!

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Did well on this spot, picking away at everything. Decided to stay out a little longer and anchor up with the fleet one last time. And the entire fleet was there. The Matt Walsh, Victory, Sport King, Native Sun, Enterprise, So Cal and a few others. Got in on a good spot and started chumming, got the cuda running some and hooked up on a few nice ones. If the bait swam towards the boat while fly-lining it was over, change and cast out again.

Jonathan and Ted on a big barracuda.

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Called it a day around 5:30pm and headed back to the barn. Filled up a cooler with a mixed bag of bocaccio, rockfish, a few sculpin, a sheephead, a few sand bass and calicos, and a few nice sized barracuda.

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Everyone went home with a nice sack of fish. Billy, Ted and Dennis were great as always, going above and beyond and working hard to find the fish even though they were not all that cooperative. Got another twilight ready for next Monday, hopefully the sandies will be ready to play!

34th Trip: Twilight Trip on the Spectra 7-7-10

Sean Glumace — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:16:46 +0000

Got to head out on our first twilight of the season last Wednesday on the Spectra. The sand bass bite had just started to heat up and I got a group of a few new people together to come along. My friends Deepak and Patty who have come out with me before brought 3 new people along, Shaun, Tara and Kyle. My son Jonathan rounded out the group.

Left the dock right around 7pm and hit the bait barge for some anchovies.

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Tara, Kyle and Shaun learning from Dennis.

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Getting bait…

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Things looked good from earlier in the day, the Spectra had done well on a 3/4 day trip on the bass in the afternoon and we were heading right back out to the same spot. The winds were up a little, but died down right after the sun set.

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Getting ready to fish…

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Got to our first spot of the night, the same spot that they had fished on earlier and we found a big friend. A tanker had pulled up and dropped literally right on the spot. So we had to go find a new spot.

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We anchored up about 5 minutes away on a mud bottom and started to chum and work the bottom. We also dropped over the squid lights to see if that would attract them to the surface. No love here except for a good size sting ray. Kyle got the first fish on the boat.

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Pulled anchor and tried on another spot. Pulled up a few small starry rockfish and got our two sand bass for the night on this spot. Tara and Kyle got one each.

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Tried another spot with no love again. We were not the only ones having issues with the bass, on the radio the 4 other boats around us were not doing well either. The bite had just died off that night. So to salvage the night we headed out the the sculpin grounds to help fill the bags.

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Everyone ended up catching sculpin throwing back a bunch of just 10 inchers, and by this time it was getting late so we decided to call it a night and head back into port. Jonathan fell asleep around 9, so he was missing from most of the photos and missed the sculpin.

Sleeping while fishing

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Totals for the night were 2 Sand Bass, 15 Sculpin, 3 Starry Rockfish. Even though we did not catch much everyone had a great time fishing, not just catching.

Billy and the crew of the Spectra were excellent as always, trying hard to get us on the bass. I have a couple of full day charters coming up on the boat, so I am looking forward to getting out there again!

More Fish Illustrations by Carl Glassford

Sean Glumace — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 00:23:14 +0000

A few months back I posted a quick photo from my good friend and mentor Carl Glassford. As I was cleaning out some of his old illustrations I came across a few more fish illustrations. (If you want to see the previous one click here)

I learned graphic design under him at Golden West College, and ended up coming back and teaching with him. One of the premiere pen and ink illustrator’s out there (See his Walter Foster book Drawing with Pen & Ink Artist’s Library series #06 at Amazon.com). I have always been amazed at the amount of detail and time he puts into his work.

Here they are…

Click on the image for the large version.

If you would like to see his latest Laguna Beach car illustrations visit his site at

http://laguna.carlglassford.com/

33rd Trip: Great Day Rockfishing and Sculpin on the Spectra

Sean Glumace — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 21:36:38 +0000

Got to get back out on the Spectra again this week on Thursday for some more local rockfishing. Had a few returning people like my friend Noreen (she’s been on all my charters this year), my brother in law Chris and good friend and fishing buddy Deepak from my previous trips along with a few new faces like my cousin Jason and fellow teacher Chris. This was my 4th charter of the year with most had not fished before or had been out a few times with me. This was also the first time I had brought out my daughter Katelyn without my son Jonathan, so it was shaping up to be a great trip for her and I.

I had just done a trip last Sunday 6/13 (view the report here) on the Spectra with a group and had an excellent day, so with the same type of group on board we opted to do the same type of trip. We were going to hit up the salmon grouper then move over to the sculpin grounds on this 1/2 day run.

Left the dock from Pierpoint right before six with Captain Chris (we had 3 Chris’ on this trip) and deckhands Ted and Dennis plus the owner Billy was along for the trip as well.

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Captain Chris gave everyone the rundown on what we were going to do as we headed out. Hit the spot for salmon grouper (Bocaccio) that we have been out at before then head over to fish sculpin and be back at the dock around 1:30pm or so.

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Stopped by the bait barge and picked up some sardines. The bigger the bait, the bigger the salmon grouper. The did have live squid as well at the barge.

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Katelyn watching the bait come on board.

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Dennis loading the tanks.

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Nice flat run out to the hole. Weather was perfect today, even better than Sunday, which was great. It was flat the whole day no wind even coming back in.

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Deepak and Katelyn waiting to get fishing.

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Almost there…

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Everyone got to see some dolphins play with the boat darting along the bow and playing the wake as well. Slowed down the engines out near the rigs and got the first yell from Ted to drop down. Everyone was set up with an 8oz sinker with a double dropper loop with big hooks, and big sardines.

Everyone dropped and hit the bottom. Everyone hooked up and fun began. I got hit hard after about 30 seconds on the bottom and set the hook. Started to crank away and asked Katelyn if she wanted to help, but she didn’t want to. It was a nice fish on.

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Brought it up and it was my first big Red in a long time! Took one of the big sardines. We got one like this 2 trips back as well.

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My brother in-law Chris hooked up along side of me, and was on something nice. Either 2 salmon grouper, or one big one. It was his first big fish out on the salt in California, and the biggest grouper of the day on the boat.

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Everyone else was also hooking up on the first drift. I’ll let the photos tell the story…

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We did a few more drifts but even with no wind, the current was pushing us. The Spectra with her bow thrusters usually can keep us on a spot but we missed it a few times. Pulled a few more salmon groupers on board for a passenger limit.

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Decided to clean it all up and set out for the sculpin grounds about 20 minutes away. I grabbed a quick nap as we went down below. Dennis re-rigged everyone up with a single leadhead dropper loop with a 4″ green mojo and a 4oz torpedo sinker. Last Sunday the sculpin were hitting the green color hard, and I had a big bag of them from the Fred Hall show still, so no reason to mess with success. We did use cut up frozen squid this time instead of the stripped mackerel. The engines slowed down and the anchor dropped so I came up and started fishing with Katelyn. Got a nice sculpin on the first drop.

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The sand dabs where back at this spot as well, and unlike the last trip, they were pecking away at the bait and stealing it. Last trip it was almost a hookup everytime with a sculpin or sand dab, so you had to feel and set the hook faster this time. Lots of nice sized sculpin came up all over the boat.

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Katelyn’s first sculpin.

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Katelyn’s first Sand Dab.

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More sculpin and sand dabs.

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The overcast morning burned off and it turned into a beautiful day.

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Deepak got one more species on the day, a starry rockfish.

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Called it a day around 11:30am and started to head back in. We had a nice cooler full of fish for everyone and Ted started to get to work on our way back in cleaning them all up. Ended up with just about limits of sculpin and about 20 or so sand dabs along with the salmon grouper.

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Ted worked hard to clean all the fish on the way back in. Took him almost an hour and a half but everyone went home with big bags of fish.

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Having fun with the locals…

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Bags for everyone to take home…

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Once again the Spectra came through for me and my group and the crew was excellent. Dennis went way above and beyond the call to help everyone have a great time, and Chris was all over the place helping everyone. Ted put us on the fish as always and did an beautiful (and hard) job cleaning and putting everything together. I can’t recommend this boat enough to people. Billy runs a great operation with Spectra Sportfishing. I have a few more trips that I’m getting together for the next month or so including an overnight to the outer islands (San Nick, Santa Barbara or SCI) so it will be a fun summer! Plus everyone went home happy and with a lot of fish to fill the freezers.

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