Bill Roecker for FishingVideos.com & the San Diego Sportfishing Council – Net Update August 12, 2008
Wahoo! On The Holiday
Deckhand Ricky Perez & Angler Denn Hirzel
This came in from Karen Dalo, wife of Holiday skipper Randy Dalo, after the boat returned recently from a day and a half trip with a 33-pound wahoo. The skinny is the first to be brought in by the day fleet in many years.
“The anglers name is Denny Hirzel, from Chula Vista, CA. We weighed the Wahoo at Fisherman’s Landing as the Point Loma scale was not available. It weighed 33 pounds.
“Randy was fishing at 53 miles south of San Diego. The water temp was 71 degrees and the day had been quite slow until about an hour before that. Denny was trolling a Williamson Diamond Jet head with Mexican Flag color feathers on 80-pound line. He said he bought it at Walmart and his friends tell him it’s the gayest trolling lure ever.”
West Coast Anglers Score
Andy Cates docked Red Rooster III at H&M Landing August 12 after a five-day West Coast Anglers charter with David Rosenthal as chartermaster.
“We had good sponsors,” said Rosenthal, “and VMC hooks were really generous with the guys.”
“We tried the islands,” said skipper Cates, “and found that hot green water had come into Benitos. So we went over to Cedros, to Augustin, and made a good catch there.”
Nancy Lerer and her White Seabass. Photo by: David Rosenthal
Nancy Lerer of Los Altos made a nice catch in the gray light; a white seabass.
Rick Millspaugh of Poway won first place for a 38.1-pound yellowtail. The big spawner bit on a gold squid butterfly jig, he said.
Rick Millspaugh of Poway won first place for a 38.1-pound yellowtail.
“He straightened the hook out,” remarked Millspaugh, who added that he used 30-pound Izorline on a Torium 30 reel and a Calstar 970 rod.
James McWhorter of Albuquerque, NM took second place for a 33.2-pounder, and Paul Oster of Mammoth Lakes won third place for a 30.4-pound yellowtail.
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Slam for Youngster
Bo Thevelius with a very nice catch
“That request we made did some good, I guess, because look at our catch,” said Searcher skipper Kevin Ward at Fisherman’s Landing August 12. On his last trip, Kevin had said, “They need to stock more fish out there…”
Ward continued, “On the first morning we started a drift, and when it ended we were 12 miles away, with limits of bluefin!”
In the end, Searcher anglers managed a great three-day catch of mixed cool and warm-water species.
One angler who got ‘em all was nine-year-old Bo Thevelius of Tehachapi, who sported an array of yellowfin, albacore, bluefin, dorado and yellowtail.
“Where’s the fins for your fish?” I asked Bo.
“On my hat,” he replied.
I asked Bo if he played sports at his school, Cummings Valley Elementary.
“No,” said his mom Melissa, “but he can ride anything that moves; horses, dirt bikes, whatever.”
Bo was proud of his catch, and posed for numerous cameras.
Bryon Mathieson of Napa won first place on the trip for a 34.6-pound dorado he got with a sardine on a 2/0 Mustad hook He said he used 40-pound Stren line on a Penn 240 reel and a Calstar 700 rod.
James Wagner of Napa tied Bryon with a 34.6-pound yellowfin tuna. Dale Dowling of Vacaville took third place for a 34.4-pound yellowfin tuna.
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