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Juniors Trip July 28 – PM 1/2 Day Trip

Monday, July 31st, 2017

Report by Ken Kunkle
Junior Trip July 28, 2017
We had a great fishing trip on the Clemente out of Dana Point with plenty of room to fish and a very helpful crew and Captain . The sea was calm with overcast skies and a slight breeze all afternoon. We had great bait, small anchovies, which allowed us to catch a wide variety of fish: sand bass, calico bass, mackerel, sculpin and one Garibaldi which was released. We had a steady bite going all day. Anyone with a line in the water caught a fish immediately. If I were to WAG how many fish were caught, I’d say at least 200, but only about 15 keeper bass and a few perch were kept. The adults were great with their kids. We had fisher people ranging in age from toddlers to young teenagers. I’m not sure who had the best time; the kids fishing or the dads, moms, and grandparents watching their children catching fish. The largest fish was caught by Max Roberts, a 3.0 pound Calico bass. Collin Hoff caught a 2.4 pound calico also. The galley was also enjoyed by all.
Fib’ers wants to extend a special THANKS to the Friends of Rollo for assisting us with the expense of the trip. Special thanks also needs to be given to John Olsen for donating a bass rod for a raffle won by little Colton Wells, and for helping with the kids along with Paula Kunkel.

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July 15 Amigo Overnight Charter

Monday, July 24th, 2017

Below is a report about the trip by Valerie Handzus
Tom and I finally got to Ventura Harbor Friday after fighting traffic for 3 1/2 hours all the way from Orange County to Ventura Harbor. Before boarding the Amigo for an overnight fishing trip, some of us enjoyed a nice seafood dinner at a restaurant right at the landing.
We left the harbor around 10:00 p.m. with everyone eager to get their gear ready for a hopeful fishing day. One by one everyone retired to their bunk as we were scheduled to start fishing for bait in the morning around 3-4 a.m.
On our way out to Santa Cruz Island we hit some wind chop and swells in the channel which made laying still in our bunks a little difficult and on the way the boat experienced a little engine trouble but the captain managed to quickly address the situation and get us underway.
We got to the fishing grounds at O-dark-thirty and first tried to catch squid and mackeral for bait with little success. No squid showed but we did managed to get about 30 mackeral in the tank. As gray light appeared, everyone tried their luck at catching a whiteseabass. They made a great showing at the island the week before but it looked like we might have just missed the hot bite by a few days as we were unable to get any to come around the Amigo. Before the captain decided to make a short move, one of our club members did manage to entice a nice 50-70 lb. black seabass out of it’s hole and caused a little excitement for all. It was released and sent back to it’s home.
Wind conditions and rough water kept the captain from making it to one of his planned fishing spots so we moved to an alternate rockcod fishing hole that produced around 30 rockfish. Around 9:30 a.m. the captain decided to make another move. Unfortunately, while doing so, the boat blew one of it’s engines and caused us to abort our fishing trip early and head back to the landing. We slowly made it back on one engine and arrived at the dock around 2:00 p.m.
Thank you Captain Ricky for all your effort and for getting all of us back safely, and to Ginny the cook who made us a great breakfast, and to the crew Antonio, Collin and Steve for all your hard work. Although our trip was cut short, we still had a great time enjoying our fellowship and fishing together. I hope the old saying “better luck next time” holds true because the FIB’ers have another trip scheduled on the Amigo again in August.

Thanks to Val for writing such a complete summary of our Amigo trip. To add just a few more details: Ron Withers won the jack-pot with a 4.1 pound Salmon Grouper a close second was Manny Moumdjian with a 4.0 Red Snapper. Jim Kiech was the one who provided the excitement with the black sea-bass. The Amigo owner met us at the dock and promised us a full refund for our trip. Please be have patience with our club as we sort out the refunds.
Your Charter Master,
Ken Kunkel

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Juniors AM 1/2 Day Charter June 23

Saturday, July 1st, 2017

FIB’ers 1st Junior Trip 2017-
Well it’s that time of year again, kids are out school, and summer is in full swing. It’s time once again for our first Junior FIB’ers trip of the year. We made some awesome changes to the trip this year, namely a change of venue, we are now charterering out of Dana Wharf Sportfishing, and day of the week. We thought that moving out Juniors trips to Fridays would help alleviate the scheduling problems and it did!
We had a full boat for our first outing, Chaperones and a few FIB’er volunteers created an amazing experience for all the kids onboard. We boarded The Sum Fun with a top knoth crew captained by Shane Manuer and we were off on time with a tank full on 7-8” sardines. We all hope for cured ‘chovies for trips like this, but were determined to scratch out a bite for the kids.
To my surprise we headed North out of the harbor, and steamed to a spot right on the beach where the crew assured us they had left the Calico’s biting the day before. We baited most of the kids up with strips of squid, assuming that would fare better than trying to force feed the Calicos large Sadrines, and we started to pluck away and small bass with some nice legals mixed in as well.
Some of the more experienced kids decides to tie on jigs , and were landing a better grade of fish that way, then Ron Wither’s just for kids flylined a hearty ‘Dine off the starbord coner of the stern towards the beach and went bent right as the bait hit the water. Soon, Dad’s chaperones, and kids alike were flylining baits and hooking and handing fish with a steady hookup ratio of about 2:1 every bait that didn’t connect at least got raked up. This brought the best quality of Calico bass for our morning half day of fishing. As we headed back to the barn it was all smiles on a every Junior’s face. We cannot thank the generous giving of out member’s and organiziations like Friends of Rollo enough for supporting us in our efforts to give this next generation a love for catching fish and being on the water.