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woody with a view
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those Blanco's are tasty!
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willardguy
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"poor man's yellowtail"
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Hook
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Better eating than jurel, in my book. 
Very surprised the butterfly types arent working at BOLA.
Look on the bright side, Howie. We have finally found a lure that you DON'T need to bring on this trip!!
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bkbend
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I've fished alongside people using the butterfly styles and they swear by them, but I've never noticed much difference in who catches fish. I use
lures slimmer than a Salas but not skinny and they work just fine. I think it has more to do with how much time your lure is working properly in the
fish zone. There's a Mexican in town who fishes commercially with a rod/reel for YT and can put a dozen (or more) in his boat while a gringo boat
next to him with three poles might land five. He's using a hand-painted Salas -- and no GPS/depth finder.
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24baja
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Hey BKBend, glad to see you online you must have made it home ok. We wanted to tell you that Brett and I enjoyed meeting you and your lovely wife.
Hope to see you again. We will be back sometime i. October.
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woody with a view
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Connie when are you guys bailing?
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bkbend
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Thanks 24baja. An easy trip home, back to cold and wet. We enjoyed the visit before we left and should be back down sometime around the end of
October.
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24baja
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Quote: Originally posted by bkbend  | | Thanks 24baja. An easy trip home, back to cold and wet. We enjoyed the visit before we left and should be back down sometime around the end of
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Heading north June 18th for fire season.
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wessongroup
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I'm waiting for some pic's from Lobsterman ... from his trip 
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Lobsterman
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Hold you're horses Wes I haven't left yet. I've been working all over SOCAL on a couple of projects the past two weeks and am now finishing up on the
reports as we speak.
We're leaving O-Dark-Thirty from El Cajon on Saturday morning with boats in tow. Plan is to get to BOLA before dark. Rooms are prepaid. I'm already
packed, sorted and organized with nine 1lb frozen squid boxes on dry ice, cured anchovies, canned mackerel for chum or tuna salad, Newell G229/322F
reels with spectra, topshot of various #, 4 rods, 20lb assorted weights, lead heads, GPS/FF with area map, 17' alum boat, hand held marine radio,
assortment of hooks and hook-type leaders with s/s for triggerfish, weighted bobbers for casting, Mirrolures in colors suggested with boat partner
having many other colors, and other stuff including my favorite pillow and blanket.
I plan on fishing for as many different species of fish and locations as possible to depths to 300' vs just trophy fishing during our 5 full days on
the water, weather permitting. I want to see what's down there and where. We've got all the YT you want here in my area so that's not my target fish.
I'll take a pic of each species of fish I catch.
[Edited on 5-26-2016 by Lobsterman]
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woody with a view
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have a great trip!
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wessongroup
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Sure sounds like fun ... what ^^ he said 
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Hook
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How are Howie and Friends doing, BOLAnese?
[Edited on 6-1-2016 by Hook]
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woody with a view
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Hook, the YT are on the chew! When you headed over?
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Hook
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Not till late June, at this point. My fate is out of my hands. Argggg!!!!
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Lobsterman
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| Quote: Originally posted by Hook | How are Howie and Friends doing, BOLAnese?
Returned from BOLA last night. Four of us fished 4 days in two tin boats (17 & 18'ers). The trip down on Saturday was uneventful and took 12
hours from El Cajon, CA. The Mexicans officials at the Tecate Border Crossing required a TIP for the boat with motor's serial #. Little traffic to
BOLA and only two inspection stations that did not stop us. Road was excellent until about 100 miles from the BOLA turnoff with potholes. However,
they were not too big or deep. The road to BOLA was a different story with major re-construction at 4 washout areas due to past floods. However,
each diverted dirt area was only about a 1/4 mile long and bladed.
We stayed at Guillermo's in rooms 3 & 8 at $65 each. Both faced the water and were steps away from a beach where you could run your boat up on
and clean your fish. Room 3 was a large room with 4 beds. Room 8 was smaller and had two beds. Both had ice cold a/c (24 hours) and hot showers.
The adjoining restaurant was fair but inexpensive. They had ice. A market was across the street. Rooms were about 150 feet from the free public
2-boat wide launch ramp. A 9 on the 10 scale. We could back up our boats on the trailer up to the room's doors. After launching we stored them there
until we returned. Amazing setup for us. Sure beats camping on the beach by a factor of 1000.
The fishing for YT was at the outer island directly south of Smith Island approximately 3 miles away on its westside. However, the YT bite lasted
only about 2 hours or less with the best time just after light, i.e. from 0430 to 0630. After that the YT bite died, the birds left and the armada of
pangas and gringos departed to other locations. Talking to the other fishermen at the motel few YT if any were caught after that each day. So
basically you caught as many YT during that small window as possible if you wanted YT for dinner.
Sunday:
Our 1st day fishing the other guys wanted to sleep in so we did not arrive at the YT fishing grounds until the bite had just shutdown. After trolling
and jigging for about an hour we went due north to the Southside of Smith to see what the birds were circling. About a 1/4 mile away fro Smith. I
picked up the 1st YT of our trip trolling a Fire Tiger Mirrorlure. Shortly afterwards Alan picked up two on a pink Mirrowlure. Unfortunately for me,
during the gaffing process in a rocking sea, cramped small unfamiliar tin boat to me with many trip hazards one of the treble hooks on his lure became
embedded into the back of my hand. One of the treble's hooks went clean thru but the other embedded deep into the back of my hand where you could not
see the hook's tip. After Alan secured a bouncing angry 20# YT I clipped off each hook at the shank with a heavy duty set of dykes. I pulled the
clean thru hook out by its tip with needle nosed pliers. The other embedded hook I worked it forward under all the tendons between my ring and little
fingers on the back of my hand. The hook's point finally surfaced about 1" from where it entered. But I was unable to push it all the way through cuz
of the short hook so I used my filet knife to cut an opening in my skin so I could get the needle nose on the hook's tip and pull it out. I had a
complete 1st aid kit on board so used the purple stuff, some Neosporin, band aids and duct tape to cover and protect the wounds. Now back to fishing.
.................................UPDATE: 6-days later. My bad for initially trying to cut the 1st hook out of my hand with a filet knife before we
found the dykes and were able to cut the shank of the treble's hook in order to remove it by its tip. Notice how clean the embedded 2nd hook came out
and healed. It entered by the ring finger and exited by the pinky.
I forgot to mention my GPS/FF chit-to-bed on the launch ramp and never worked again so I'm a blind bottom fisherman now. The other guys in our group
while trolling this area as well picked up a 16# cabrilla on the scale on a pink Mirrorlure I'm guessing at a high point of the reef (no FF). I
picked up a 3 pounder in the same area. After another pass of that area, I got hit big and something broke my 80# test I could not stop. Then off to
my recollection of where I use to catch jawfish and triggers from the past. We found them and caught what we needed for dinner on squid. Then called
it a day at 1130.
Monday:
Like a 1st sergeant I rousted the guys out of bed at 0400, loaded the boats up and were pushing away from the ramp at 0441, arriving about 20 minutes
later to north westerly winds in the white-capped channel making for dangerous conditions in a 17' tin boat. The armada of boats was down by half
from Sunday (about 15). The two of us picked up 4 YT 16-22# on Mirrorlures and lost two with hook pullouts after a good fight. We never caught a YT
on a jig but the other boats mainly caught theirs on blue & white Salas 6x juniors. The bite died at 0630 so off we go again to Smith Island.
The seas were getting rougher so we hid in the wind shadow of Smith. Trolled for awhile for nada then headed north up the protected backside of
Smith, again for nada. After rounding Smith and heading south we noticed that the winds were howling by then so we headed for La Gringa Point and
hugged the shoreline all the way back. Back by 1200.
Tuesday:
Pushing back from the ramp at 0440 and headed again to that island. Our neighbors in room 2 called us on the radio and suggested we not come out
there cuz the conditions were worse than yesterday. They had a 21' Sea Pro. They were correct. After getting there and having a scare we headed SW
to the protection of Horsehead Island. Since we could not go fast we put out the trollers and immediately picked up two YT. Then got another double
hookup after that. We could not turn around due the swell so we headed onto Horsehead missing the remaining YT bite. Trolled around it for awhile for
nada then off to San Juan Cove's entrance to an area I use to catch bottomfish. I just caught a couple of small gold spot bass and triggers which
were released. Then called it a day at 1100.
Wednesday:
At the grounds by 0500 again. The seas were rough from the westerly's but fishable in our small wash tub. I immediately hooked up on the troll and
landed 3 YTs and lost two into the rocks while fishing with 25# line. Alan was fishing with 40# line and did not get picked up at all that day like
the other days. Again bite died 0630. Tried Smith again for nada and called it a rap by 1100. These YT were the only ones I kept giving the others
each day to the restaurant or our companions from Oregon. I surgically fileted them out, keeping the bellies and collars for smoking. I'm brining
them as we speak. I do not believe the color of the Mirrorlure matters much cuz I caught them on fire tiger, blue mac, green mac and pink. The key
this trip was being at the fishing grounds at 1st light or stay in bed.
Thursday:
Packed up and departed at 0600 for El Cajon. Went through only two drug check points which lasted about one minute each with no cars in front of us.
Got to the Tecate Border Crossing at 1600 and to our amazement there was also no one in front of us. I thought they had closed the border. After
looking at our passports for 30 seconds, entering them into the computer and asking us where we were going, he waved us through without having to go
to secondary inspection. That must we a record border crossing of only 1 minute during rush hour.
Dennis
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woody with a view
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Good times!
Duct tape, don't leave home without it!
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bkbend
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Too bad about the wind but it sounds like you hung in there and still got some good action.
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wessongroup
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A real fishing trip ... injury ... thanks for the writeup
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Lobsterman
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Smoked YT
No yellow tail is not a Chinese hooker but a member of the amberjack family. It can be eaten any way imaginable. I prefer it smoked. The pic below
shows 1/2 the three YT I started smoking with a pork butt. After four hours at 190 degrees, I wrapped the pork butt and placed it in the oven at 250
degrees with some apple juice. I then put the rest of the YT on the smoker's grill. After 6 hours the 1st batch is still not done (target: 160
degrees) and the other 1/2 just starting. It's 1830 so it'll be late night for me.
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