Santa Rosa/ Cruz Islands 7/19

[CalicoHunter]

Hey Gang!
Did something a little different (for us anyways) went seabass fishing.
I had My buddies Matt and Whitney with me and made the run to Eagles nest at Santa Rosa Island, kinda a bumpy run from Santa Barbara harbor as we only averaged 18-19 knots most of the way over. We arrived around 5:30am and purchased a very healthy half scoop of squid from the Outer Banks and chose to set up near him in 87ft of water. Tim mentioned that it had been a late morning/ early afternoon bite, however a long story short we managed three schoolie seabass while gutting pumelled by huge mackeral.
We stuck it out till about 11:30 then bailed for the West end of Cruz to finish the rest of the day.
I set us up on the weather side (read lumpy!) of Fraser point in 60ft of really fishy looking water for a steady pick nice calico’s , sheepshead , and misc rockfish including some huge Johny bass on both the squid and the Big Hammers. A side note: we were able to jig squid a little, but I was glad we bought the bait from Tim. The ride back was a little better,making it back from the West end of Cruz to S.B. in just under an hour…Captain Larry

[Joey805]

Right on Larry, congrats on the seabass and thanks for the report.

[ODH33]

nice report thanks

[smidge]

Thanks for the report Larry. Saw your boat at the launch ramp with the new motor, very nice.

[Stickerguy]

Originally Posted by CalicoHunter

however a long story short we managed three schoolie seabass while gutting pumelled by huge mackeral

Those werent mackerel.....they were truly channel islands tuna.....Monsters to say the least.....

Weird thing......I was able to make squid below them without incident....

[Carnivore]

Thanks for the report and congrats to the you guys pulling some ghosts up.