Bugman
Nomad
Posts: 143
Registered: 9-20-2006
Location: Escondido
Member Is Offline
|
|
LA Bay report
My son was on vacation from school so we headed to LA Bay last Wednesday (4/11) for a quick vacation. After a very shaky first night (a 6.9 quake
will do that!) I was able to get in a few hours of fishing before the winds kicked up. No action on the surface so just fished the bottom for decent
numbers of bass, jawfish and sculpin. For the first time ever I got spiked by one of those sculpin (or scorpionfish or whatever you want to call
them) and don't care to ever repeat that again! My hand throbbed for a few hours and then stayed pretty swollen for another two days. The second day
was calm as glass so the whole family joined in for the boat ride and fishing was very good for bottom species again. I got plenty to maintain my
taco habit for awhile. Other than the 3 hour wait at the border coming home on Sunday it was a good trip. 
|
|
|
24baja
Senior Nomad
Posts: 951
Registered: 2-3-2009
Location: Grants Pass Oregon/Bahia de Los Angeles
Member Is Offline
Mood: Wishing we were in BOLA
|
|
Bugman, thanks for your report. Those Scuplin can ruin your day!
|
|
|
woody with a view
PITA Nomad
Posts: 15939
Registered: 11-8-2004
Location: Looking at the Coronado Islands
Member Is Offline
Mood: Everchangin'
|
|
yeah, i've had that sculpin pleasure myself. once was enough!
gonna be in bahia 4-30 to 5-4 and hoping to run around the inner islands.
|
|
|
redhilltown
Super Nomad
Posts: 1130
Registered: 1-24-2009
Location: Long Beach, CA
Member Is Offline
|
|
| Quote: | Originally posted by 24baja
Bugman, thanks for your report. Those Scuplin can ruin your day! |
Very true but boy are they ever tasty!!!!!!!!!
|
|
|
Skipjack Joe
Elite Nomad
Posts: 8084
Registered: 7-12-2004
Location: Bahia Asuncion
Member Is Offline
|
|
I'm so scared of them. I use 2 pliers and never bring them into the boat.
|
|
|
Hook
Elite Nomad
Posts: 9009
Registered: 3-13-2004
Location: Sonora
Member Is Offline
Mood: Inquisitive
|
|
SST services showing a fairly dramatic rise in the last few days in the Sea. Even BOLA is no exception. I'm seeing 63-65 which is pretty good for BOLA
in mid-late April.
Of course, that can change rapidly in that area if the tides lift water from THAT Canal San Lorenzo below there.
This warmup could be good news for fishing when you arrive, Woody! Not saying you should go dorado hunting, mind you, but everything bites better when
it hits mid 60s in that area.
Heck, I would call mid 60s swimmable for short periods.........if the air is hot.
[Edited on 4-22-2012 by Hook]
|
|
|
woody with a view
PITA Nomad
Posts: 15939
Registered: 11-8-2004
Location: Looking at the Coronado Islands
Member Is Offline
Mood: Everchangin'
|
|
shrinkage!
looking forward to it!
|
|
|
Skipjack Joe
Elite Nomad
Posts: 8084
Registered: 7-12-2004
Location: Bahia Asuncion
Member Is Offline
|
|
| Quote: | Originally posted by woody with a view
shrinkage!
looking forward to it! |
Just don't let her see.
|
|
|
BajaDanD
Senior Nomad
Posts: 745
Registered: 8-30-2003
Member Is Offline
|
|
| Quote: | Originally posted by Skipjack Joe
I'm so scared of them. I use 2 pliers and never bring them into the boat. |
Stick your thumb in its mouth and bend your index finger under its bottom lip and grab hold, that way it cant spin or flip around you can do this and
pull hook without ever using plyers. learned this from deckhands on partyboats done this many times fishing from my kayak. I have been stuck by
sculpin before but never using this technique. Grabbing or trying to grab a sculpin with plyers is a poke waiting to happen. I seen more then a few
people get it this way.
They are sure good eating though.
|
|
|
Skipjack Joe
Elite Nomad
Posts: 8084
Registered: 7-12-2004
Location: Bahia Asuncion
Member Is Offline
|
|
| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaDanD
| Quote: | Originally posted by Skipjack Joe
I'm so scared of them. I use 2 pliers and never bring them into the boat. |
Stick your thumb in its mouth and bend your index finger under its bottom lip and grab hold, that way it cant spin or flip around you can do this and
pull hook without ever using plyers. learned this from deckhands on partyboats done this many times fishing from my kayak. I have been stuck by
sculpin before but never using this technique. Grabbing or trying to grab a sculpin with plyers is a poke waiting to happen. I seen more then a few
people get it this way.
They are sure good eating though. |
The Jimmy Houston way of releasing largemouths.
No thanks. My hand aren't getting anywhere near that face. One plier goes in the mouth and hold the jaw. The other longnose plier extracts the hook
from within. hands never get near the spines. Never been stung.
Dad tells of stepping on one in the bottom of the boat. Yeow.
|
|
|
thebajarunner
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 3710
Registered: 9-8-2003
Location: Arizona....."Free at last from crumbling Cali
Member Is Offline
Mood: muy amable
|
|
I cannot believe you all still use pliers???
They sell those slick foot long aluminum rigs that look a little like a calking gun,
that way they never get close to sticking you.
Reach in, grab the hook shank, quick twist and they are in the tank.
|
|
|
durrelllrobert
Elite Nomad
Posts: 7393
Registered: 11-22-2007
Location: Punta Banda BC
Member Is Offline
Mood: thriving in Baja
|
|
| Quote: | Originally posted by Skipjack Joe
| Quote: | Originally posted by woody with a view
shrinkage!
looking forward to it! |
Just don't let her see. |
I don't think that was the rod he had in mind
Bob Durrell
|
|
|
![[*]](images/xmbforum/default_icon.gif){kind=icon}
