On this day, I went fishing with Brent Ehrler at his home lake – Lake Perris! It’s actually been awhile since the last time I’ve gone fishing with him. Right when we arrived at the lake, Brent said to me, “we’ll definitely catch some today!” I then decided to enjoy fishing using only hard baits.

I simply straight retrieved my LV-RTO 150 (in Ghost Minnow) above the shallow area where there were sunken trees and grass. Then I immediately got my very first bite of the day!! Brent also mentioned that “Ghost” colors works better in this lake than “Chart” colors! He was so right!! In the afternoon at about 1 o’ clock I decided to cast in the back shade area. I cast with certainty that there were Bass in this area. And as I imagined! I got a bite!! This time I used a lure that is still currently under development. Unfortunately I can’t share anything about this lure yet…

I ended up catching 2 with this secret lure! I was very satisfied with what I got. As for Brent? He is a true professional! He caught 3 with the lure he developed – the LC 1.5DRS! And also with the secret lure, he caught 8 of them!!! Amazing!!

I will be announcing this secret lure in the near future, so please stay tuned!!

Sandy
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7/21/2012

After the grunion run, Raney and I (Peter) decided to head out to Long Beach jetty to fish for halibut. We got there at greylight right before peak low tide. Tried the front area with the LC Flash Minnow 110 Glow in the Dark Sardine while Raney tried the Flash Pointer Green Sexy Smelt. I missed a couple of hits so we moved on down the jetty towards the middle where it was a little deeper. There was a lot of bird activity diving at bait everywhere and we thought this was a definitely good sign to come. I finally hooked up to a small 12 inch halibut while Raney was still trying for his first. We moved on to deeper waters so I decided to tie on the LC Pointer 100 in fresh water color and picked up a yellowfin croaker about 13-14 inches. Put up a good little fight and I was using a slow, steady retrieve for this fish. I tied on a LC Flash Minnow 120DD (Deep Diver) and Raney put on a LC Pointer 100 in mackeral color. The bite picked up for me because I think I was in the right strike zone with the LC FM DD and I caught a healthy 18 inch halibut. Then I picked up 2 Legal Halibuts! One 24 inches and the other 22 1/2 inches. The retrieve on the deep diver was a fast pace retrieve. The picture shows how excited I was because this was the first time I’ve caught a legal halibut here and not only one, but two! Raney used my lure for a couple of minutes and picked up a baby halibut about 6 inches but at least he got the skunk off.

-Peter
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The 2012 ICAST Show has finally come to an end and I am glad to say we were able to introduce a lot of our new SW products! They should all be released around November of this year so please stay tuned!

After coming back to California, I immediately went fishing using the new lures! The lures we introduced at the ICAST included the Flash Pointer 115, Blade Cross 110 and Pointer 100, 128, SR/SSR. I put those in my tackle box and headed to the Southern California beach wondering how it can be used and what type of fish I may be able to catch with them. I’ve actually filmed my whole fishing experience with the new lures this time.

So please stay tuned for my next Daily Flash Minnow report! Although, I will post up some images this time!!!

The film will be on Enjoy DVD and some will be uploaded to Youtube as well.

Sandy
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My report today is about our new rod! For casting? For FM? It is called the ESG2!

This rod is a limited edition model in Europe and it can not be purchased in America or Japan (It comes in 2 sizes: 8 ft’ 7 & 7ft ’7). Since fishing in Europe often target big size fishes such as Predators, this rod is made a bit stronger than the ESG rod I usually use. This slight difference will definitely make a difference in your fishing. So I immediately took the 2 different rods (my usual and the new rod) to the nearest ocean and cast with the FM110 to compare. In result… I felt like there are individual preferences and thoughts, but when I cast the new harder/stronger rod (8’7/ESG2) with the FM110, it goes exactly where I want it to go and even goes a little farther than normal. If I were to say what the biggest difference between the two is – the new rod feels a lot sturdier where you can easily cast bigger lures such as the FM130MR & PT140. If I can get a fish to bite, I’ll be able to have more opinions on its actual strength and stability level, but unfortunately it wasn’t that easy… This will definitely be my next project. I’ll be very happy if I can catch a Halibut with this new rod!

Sandy
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I went on my very first saltwater fishing with one of my fishing partners, Taka. It was actually his first time going Halibut fishing so rather going to a place where you may catch large size Halibuts like Bolsa Chica, I went to a place where you have a better chance catching more fishes like Long Beach.

On this day, there were less tide movements, so I assumed it would be a bit tougher to catch anything. However, Taka who has a lot of Bass fishing experience, was amazingly good at examining the bottom area and sensing the slight lure actions.

As I assumed, I wasn’t able to catch anything while Taka caught 4 Halibuts with the BigUP lure (in white colors). He caught small size Halibuts one after another!! They all came biting while he was slow retrieving. He enjoyed his very first Halibut fishing a lot and now he goes almost everyday! I won’t lose next time!!

Sandy
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Raney and I(Peter) went out to one of your usual spots for halibut to test out the new Flash Pointer 115. We were pretty excited about having these new lures to test out and extremely grateful to Lucky Craft for letting us be testers. I tied on the Sexy Blue Smelt color while Raney used American Shad color. For technique, we used a steady and slow retrieve and we notice these lures have a different wobble compared to the popular Flash Minnow 110SP. The wobble was more subtle and the whole body would go side to side unlike the Flash Minnow 110SP where the wobble was in the tail. I ended up catching one halibut and Raney caught 2.

We tried the Flash Minnow 110SP and the CIF Pointer 100SP for no fish. So we guessed that they wanted the more subtle action in the new Flash Pointer 115. They are great lures and very effective when halibut aren’t as active. One of the great things about them is that they go deeper than the Flash Minnow 110SP but not as deep as theCIF Pointer 100SP, so it would stay in the strike zone where halibut strike in the spot we were fishing.

Peter
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I again went to Bolsa Chica for Halibut fishing. My fishing partner this time is Miku who started Halibut fishing just last year and have already caught a 26in Halibut! I suppose it’s been almost a year since she last went fishing. Although I must say, she has some type of strong fishing luck… There were others around us bait fishing who couldn’t catch anything for awhile, but while then she caught 2!! …She wasn’t able to catch a 26in Halibut, but she did catch a small Ray and a Halibut (not a legal size).

The lure she chose to use was the Pointer 100 in Ghost Green Smelt. We went on a Saturday so there were quite a few people (about 15 fishermen) and if you can’t cast & retrieve that well it tends to get tangled up with the person next to you. So to avoid such trouble, we decided to leave a little early before 9.

Sandy
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I FINALLY caught my very first legal size Halibut (22in)! I caught it at Bolsa Chica! On this day, I was fishing when it was low tide so I wasn’t expecting to catch anything big. However, my fishing partners whom I came with all caught 1 each. In my case, on my first cast of the day, I hit the bottom to examine the area (Imagining all the small fish prey on the plankton of the ocean floor) and retrieved at a standard speed. The lure was almost near my foot so I started to retrieve faster to bring it up towards me. Then all of a sudden, I saw a Halibut jumping out trying to bite my lure! I immediately cast towards that area (slightly further) with the Staysee 90. This time I retrieved slowly and at the same spot where the Halibut jump out earlier, it started to chase after my lure and I got a bite!! From the look of the bent of our new ESG rod I was using, I guessed it would be at least 20in big. I carefully pulled it up to the shore and surely it was a pretty good size Halibut! With the help of my fishing partners, I was able to capture it this time. It was my very first Halibut this year and my very first legal size too!

Wow~ it took me 2 years to catch a legal size Halibut! My next goal is to catch a 25in and above Halibut!!

On this fishing trip, I used our Lucky Craft USA new product “BIGUP” Saltwater colors (Sardine colors) and I also caught some with our Saltwater lure king “Flash Minnow 110”.

Sandy
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6/2/12

On Saturday June 9,2012 Peter and I decided to fish at San Onofre State Beach. Reports from this area from the past few weeks have shown that people were catching nice sized halibut and white seabass. We both decided to throw the Lucky Craft Flash Minnow 110SP, Peter’s color choice was Sexy Geisha Queen Sardine and I went with Ghost White Sea Bass. I caught my first fish on the incoming tide, this fish hit the lure almost as soon as it hit the water! I bring it closer to shore and I thought that it might be a juvenile white sea bass. But after beaching the fish we identified it to be a good sized Yellowfin Croaker at 16 inches! Soon after peak high tide Peter hooks up on his first halibut from the surf! This fish was caught using a steady medium retrieve. We measured it at 20 inches, just 2 inches short of legal. No matter though because Peter was really excited about his catch. Be careful fishing this spot because there is alot rocks to get stuck on. I would suggest fishing high abrasion resistant line like 15# mono, 30# spectra, or bigger. Until next time folks, tight lines!

Raney and Peter
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