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My central coast fishing trip was great. The plan was to fish Monday through Thursday, but my friend was having boat problems the whole trip so we had to come home on Wednesday after I fished the AM session. The majority of the trip was to target lingcod. There's not a ton of them here in SD so we thought it would be fun to try them up the coast.
We stopped in Santa Barbara at Refugio state beach on Monday to try to for Calico bass but didn't have much luck. We got some small fish but nothing special. It was funny because we were there the day before the oil spill. I was thinking that I would be pretty confused if the water started turning black underneath me because of an underwater pipeline burst. I'd probably call it in to the coast guard on the radio and hurry in haha. After that, we drove up to Los Osos area and set up camp and headed out Tuesday morning.
On Tuesday, I brought two lings into the boat and lost one while trying to net it. I also had a couple unhook while reeling them in because of a poor hookset. It's because my swimbait was ruined and I was too lazy to change it out so it kept sliding up over the hook and barely hooking the fish.
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On Wednesday, we went 20 miles north and did some kelp fishing. I got my limit on lings by 12-12:30.
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The people up there were really nice. I met a bunch of people out in the water and it was really cool that they were so welcoming to a San Diego boy fishing their waters.
This is definitely a trip I plan on doing again soon.
I also got a good whale watching experience. A HUGE gray whale or humpback (I don't know much about whales) kept surfacing about 15 feet from me. And the day before they were breaching within a quarter mile from me. So I was kind of scared it would breach and land on me haha. Pretty amazing sight tho.
We stopped in Santa Barbara at Refugio state beach on Monday to try to for Calico bass but didn't have much luck. We got some small fish but nothing special. It was funny because we were there the day before the oil spill. I was thinking that I would be pretty confused if the water started turning black underneath me because of an underwater pipeline burst. I'd probably call it in to the coast guard on the radio and hurry in haha. After that, we drove up to Los Osos area and set up camp and headed out Tuesday morning.
On Tuesday, I brought two lings into the boat and lost one while trying to net it. I also had a couple unhook while reeling them in because of a poor hookset. It's because my swimbait was ruined and I was too lazy to change it out so it kept sliding up over the hook and barely hooking the fish.
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On Wednesday, we went 20 miles north and did some kelp fishing. I got my limit on lings by 12-12:30.
IMG_0800.jpg
IMG_0798.jpg
IMG_0803.jpg
The people up there were really nice. I met a bunch of people out in the water and it was really cool that they were so welcoming to a San Diego boy fishing their waters.
This is definitely a trip I plan on doing again soon.
I also got a good whale watching experience. A HUGE gray whale or humpback (I don't know much about whales) kept surfacing about 15 feet from me. And the day before they were breaching within a quarter mile from me. So I was kind of scared it would breach and land on me haha. Pretty amazing sight tho.
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