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Calico Coastal – August 27, 2011

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011

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Saturday morning dawned and the sun quickly began to beat down on all six 2-man teams competing in this year’s Calico Coastal tournament based out of Los Alamitos Bay. The objective for the day seemed simple enough – catch 3 Calico Bass on artificial lures and bring them back alive for the weigh in @ 1:00 PM. Some boats fished south, some fished the breakwater straight out, and others took their chances going north to Palos Verdes and beyond.

The six teams were:
- Eric & Jerry Bent
- Maynard Poynter & Jon Olson
- Brant McGlothlin & Jason Weinstein
- Tom & Val Handzus
- David & Joyce Belden with Jared Belden (Junior division)
- Jayson Quimby & Andrew Gomez with Dorian Quimby (Junior division)

The conditions were a little strange. While the Southern California heat wave raged on, water temps ranged from 72 degrees in some areas to as low as 59 degrees! There was a small mix of swell from the South and the Northwest. At about 11AM a strong NW wind picked up and the once glassy ocean surface was quickly transformed into foamy washing machine conditions. All of the teams made it in safely for the 1:00 weigh in, but most did not have the fish they had hoped to catch. Most had stories of missed opportunities at landing the “right kind” and landing the wrong kind! Like the big bass hooked too close to structure and the hooks being pulled because of the locked down drags, and some fish just broke them off! Some told stories of catching Sandbass, a giant Black Seabass and even a short White Seabass.

When the dust settled, the team composed of Jayson Quimby & Andrew Gomez with Dorian Quimby was able to walk away with each of the prizes for the day.
Their 11.72# 3-fish bag won the “heaviest bag” (Andrew not pictured).Photobucket
Here’s Andrew with his nice contribution to the winning bag!Photobucket

Their 6.21# Calico won the heaviest fish category.Photobucket Dorian’s 2.96# Calico won for the heaviest fish weighed by a Junior. Photobucket

Coming in second was Brant McGlothlin & Jason Weinstein Photobucket They weighed in a 3-fish bag of 7.91#’s with a nice 5.10# kicker!! Way to go!!!
Once again, God blessed the FIB’ers with a great day of fun on the water with friends and family. Thank you Lord!
Until next year’s Bass tournaments….God Bless!!!

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Olive Crest Kids Trip – August 17, 2011

Saturday, August 27th, 2011

Fishing Report: by Del Brunning

On Wednesday morning, August 8th, 44 Olive Crest kids, counselors and FIB’er volunteers gathered at Newport Landing for a morning of fishing on the Amigo. Photobucket

The morning was overcast and windshield wipers were occasionally needed to make it to the landing. The kid’s took longer to arrive than normal but it seemed like our fishing time was about the same; even after the late departure. Arriving at the bait receiver, we loaded up with some nice anchovies and, along with some frozen squid, headed out of the harbor. Motoring South, we soon stopped at a small rock pile and fished. We had limited results there so we pushed further South to another rock pile. We fished for some time there until we ended up on a rock pile opposite Laguna Beach’s main beach. All-in-all the kids had a lot of fun catching fish at each of the locations. All of the fish were of the Tree Fish, Red Snapper, Lizard Fish, Calico Bass, and mostly Mackerel variety. We could have hooked up on Mackerel all day long and the kid’s loved the fight to land them. Most of the fish were caught on squid bait but some of the FIB’ers used fin bait and hooked-up a lot of fish for the kids on that also. Love those experienced FIB’er volunteers!

While heading back, Captain Tom said that he would try to spot some whales for us. Sure enough, we had not traveled far when one was spotted not far ahead. It was difficult to discern what it was because it kept mostly right under the surface and its color was hard to distinguish. Finally we got a good look and Tom said it was a small Minke whale. The Minke is the smallest member of the baleen family of whales. The kids loved seeing the whale. We finally arrived at the landing, tired, but thankful for another successful Olive Crest trip.

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Amigo 1.5 Day – August 5th

Wednesday, August 17th, 2011

Report by Floyd Spangler
The trip started off well, except our new friends from Salt Lake City, UT. took a little extra time to find us, yet we were off by 9:00 p.m.. The landing had cured sardines at the receiver and then we picked up 15 scoops of squid. Captain Tom was at the helm, with Ichoro in the galley and Connor on deck.with captain Bob as the the night skipper. The ride over Catalina was comfortable. We set up in West Cover right next to the Dreamer, which had been catching seabass during the week. We sure did drown a lot of squid. As seabass are know do, they were no shows for all the boats in the cove. At about 6:00 a.m. we started over to San Clement Island. There were reports of strong winds on the back side, which made it necessary to fish the front or lee side of the island. There was wind on the front side also, but not as strong, although it seemed to blow from all directions and over the top of the island. At the first stop we did have some yellowtail boil up toward the bow of the boat. Tom Handzus hooked what appeared to be a yellow, but it came unbuttoned. We made many moves during the day. There was a slow but steady pick of Calicos. The boys from Ut. had a great time catching Blue Perch. The big fish for the trip was a 5lb. 4oz calico caught by Floyd Spangler.
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(It says something about the trip when a calico is the big fish) The fun part, Floyd said, was that the fish was caught on a hand painted jig!!
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In the evening we went around the corner of the island and the wind had laid down. This made for a great dinner spot. Ichoro got the BBQ out, which he said they do not do for many trips now. I guess they still like us. While dinner was being prepared we caught a few more Calicos and the lone barracuda.
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The boat started back at about 11:00 pm. A good time was had by all aboard. I guess what you could say about the trip was it would have a good day to go sailing.

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