I finally got to go fishing after some days off from work! It’s been awhile since my last Halibut fishing in Bolsa Chica. Unfortunately when I got there, the wind was blowing pretty strong… I also thought to myself, “where’s the water?”
From early morning until about 11am was low tide and a very bad time for fishing. There weren’t any place for me to cast and if I do it would reach the fisherman’s on the opposite side of the shore! It was a difficult situation. I couldn’t use any DD (Deep Dive) lures in this type of water condition, so I decided to use the FM110 & PT78SR and went for the surface area. I started to cast towards the jetty and under the pier and let my lure swim along the water flow (slightly fast retrieve). I tried to retrieve (slow retrieve) the opposite direction from the water flow also. I continued to try the 2 types of retrieving speeds but didn’t get any bites… Catching my very first Halibut had to be postponed until later.
Big Fish exclusive colors – 17 new FM110 colors from Europe is now newly stocked! Please hurry and come get some!! They are all less than $20.
These lures are normally not found in CA nor America and isn’t usually for sale so it might sell very quickly.
Travis, and I just won the 2011 Elite Pro Redfish Series Championship! This was the most lucrative redfish tournament of the year, and we came out Champions! We finished the year strong with three top-5 appearances in a row, tons of TV time, and a Championship win. There were very few teams if any that provided as much exposure as we did in 2011. We were by far the highest ranked Lucky Craft inshore team in 2011.
Here are some of our highlights from 2011…
8th Place finish IFA Redfish Tour Punta Gorda
6th Place finish Elite Pro Redfish Series Tampa
6th Place finish Elite Pro Redfish Series Punta Gorda
7th Place finish IFA Redfish Tour Ruskin
5th Place finish Elite Pro Redfish Series Punta Gorda
Top 5 after Day 1 at IFA Redfish Tour in Chalmette, Lousiana
1st Place finish Elite Pro Redfish Championship Sarasota, Florida
13th Place Team of Year Ifa Redfish Tour
4th Place Team of Year Elite Pro Redfish Series
As some of you been waiting for, the requested Lucky Craft CIF Series saltwater lures are now in stock at the Newport Beach shop, “Angler’s Center”! We made it possible to have a greater amount of items in store! There are a whole lot of colors that were only available online, but now they have all 16 CIF colors in stock!
When it comes to Lucky Craft surf fishing, the ultimate lures would be the Flash Minnow 110 & Pointer 100 which we also have more colors available. The new Flash Minnow 120DD and Pointer 100DD in all colors are in stock as well so please visit “Angler’s Center”!
I came to Bolsa Chica again for this week’s fishing report. Unfortunately when I got there, the best Halibut fishing spot was taken already…
Reluctantly I started casting from the middle of the rocky area… After an hour of fishing the fisherman who got to the spot first caught his first Halibut. I was hoping they would react to my lure also. I then switched my FM110 to a PT100 which creates more detailed action. As time progressed, again the same fisherman continued to catch legal size Halibuts. But I’m sure there is a big difference in using live bait compared to hard lures. I decided to go over to there place and had them squeeze me in. But I couldn’t catch anything… Both of the fishermen next to me who were using live baits kept catching small size Halibuts. I felt like the fishes completely knew what they were dealing with.
They weren’t using Sardine as live bait, but pretty large Anchovy. And that actually was a very nice clue for next time. Next week I’m going to challenge Halibut fishing again with that lure. With the “Pointer 128”!!! I want to try again with this.
Well at least I had some great discovery. The water that day was so nice and clear I was able to observe the bottom surface, deep and shallow areas and where the rocks were located from the top of the bridge which is usually not possible to do. This gave me so much hope and imagination on where the Halibuts may be.
Since I newly bought the annual parking pass, it’ll be a waste if I don’t make the most out of it! So I went back to Bolsa Chica this week where I haven’t got any catches yet. I started fishing early in the morning hoping to catch a large size Halibut. Before high tide around this time, the ocean water flows into the river so it is the opposite direction from last time!! I cast my lure and I needed to calculate the water flow while retrieving. It was important to choose your points. Bolsa Chica is fun!
I used the usual FM110 (Pearl color) and continuously cast, but didn’t get any bites. Time just passed and it became fully high tide. The water level was pretty high so I changed my lure to the PT100DD (MS Anchovy)! And this worked!! On my very first cast a big one ate it. I’ve never seen my rod so bent before. Not only that, it had a strong pull and it even felt close to Striper fishing! I was excited to think I finally caught a large size Halibut but……. Unfortunately when I pulled it up it wasn’t a Halibut but something else? It’s red? What is this? I’ve never seen such a fish before. I pulled it up to the shore and took a picture of it and asked my saltwater master T what it was. He told me it is a fish called Covina. I guess it is generally caught with fish baits and often comes along the pier. It was my very first fish caught with the ESG rod! Cheers with some Coke!
