The following report was recently sent in from Bill Coe:
I don’t normally go out for rock cod, but Bud Sharp, Chuck Wheeler and I went out last Friday, 20Apr12. We were tired of waiting for the water to warm up. Brought back about 20 rock cod and 20 sand dabs. This little bird, a warbler, found us about 10-12 mi out, halfway to Catalina. He rode with us until he got warm and rested. Apparently they live here along the coast and go back to British Columbia for the summer. Bud was thrilled to death. He is 92 yr young this year, I think. Incidentally, we brought back about 20 rock cod and 20 sand dabs.

“The will to prepare to win is more important than the will to win!” – BilCoe

We recently received this fishing report from Ken Kunkel:

Mission Viejo Lake April 7, 2012

Ken Kunkel

Last weekend we had two FIB’ers send in fishing reports. Dave Shill got the weekend started off on the right foot, when he and Roy Fukushima went out to Diamond Valley Lake to fish for Striped Bass. He said the fishing was on the slow side, but they got into some nice fish, and the weather was perfect! Besides catching his first stripers, Dave also caught a personal best catfish. He estimates the weight at over 25 pounds! WTG Dave!!

The second FIB’er report to come in this weekend was from Rick Chalmers. He said, “Hi Jason, You missed it! You really should have followed us to Bolsa Chica (we saw each other on the way to the beach, but I was going surfing) My buddy Bruce Finnnie and I went fishing Saturday the 25th of February with a group of anglers that Bill Varney had gotten together. Bill spoke at our club last year about surf fishing. Today we met with approx 25 other anglers at Bolsa Chica and had Bill teach us some surf fishing techniques. After the teaching we all spread out and began fishing. On about my third cast I felt a pretty good bite, but missed the fish. Then I recasted in the same area and wham the fish hit and it ran about 20 yards down the beach and I was running after it, dodging other anglers. There was no doubt in my mind that this was the biggest fish that I had ever hooked in the surf, and I was fishing with Berkley Vanish 4 lb test line so I wanted to be very careful. It really took me about 5-7 minutes to land the fish. Here are a few pictures of the beauty it was released for another day.


Then Bruce and I were fishing for a few more hours and we caught a few more perch, all in all a pretty great day. Blessings from our house to yours, Rick

Attention all FIB’er members, please send us your fishing reports and we will post them here!

Tight Lines!!

Report by FIB’er Member: Jayson Quimby
I wanted to make a longer run, but the lousy forecast and rolled over water kept us closer to home to battle it out for just under 15 fish.
I took my son (Dorian), Andrew and his buddy Danny out on Saturday. Water was chilly: 56-57 degrees.
I got out-fished by my son 5-3, and I couldn’t be happier!! He’s getting better!
The Tenacious weedless baits worked insane! Thanks Kevin!!

Dorian won $3 from us for catching the first fish, a sandbass (sorry no pic), and then he caught 4 Cabs that looked like this one:

A Cab ate the spinnerbait for Andrew

Andrew with a nice one on the Tenacious weedless bait in “Brown Bruiser.” I think this was the biggest fish of the day – right under 3#’s!

I rounded out the day with a couple like this on the Tenacious “Meltdown Brown” and one in “Rootbeer & Gold”

Tight Lines!
-Jayson

Chartermaster’s Report:
The final FIB’ers offshore trip of the season went out on Wednesday night, Oct. 12th to fish all day Thursday. It was one of the smoothest rides I can remember aboard the Pacific Voyager as we ran 13 hours into Mexican waters. Having heard reports of 50# plus Bluefin tuna, we were all quite excited, to say the least. We never found the big boys, but spent the day paddie hopping for school size Yellowtail up to 10.5#, blue fin tuna to 14#, and Dorado to 20.5#. The big dodo took the jackpot for the day. The most spectacular event of this trip had to be the heroic effort of Capt. Todd. During a stern tangle session on a Yellowtail bite, rods were being passed over, under, over under.One FIBer who was on a fish missed the pass. As I looked down into the water and saw his Trinidad on a custom Calstar sink out, he asked me “where’s my rod?” I replied “in the water dude!”, and at the same moment I yelled out “rod overboard, we need a gaff!” Without hesitation, Capt. Todd (who was on the bait
tank chumming,) jumps down,and says “I’ll get it.” He hops up on the rail and dove into the water after it.
By now, the rod with a fish attached had sunk out at least ten feet. In a matter of seconds, Todd reappears, rod in hand, fish still on, and proceeds back to the bait tank to continue chumming. No big deal!Needless to say, we who witnessed this whole thing were quite amazed at Todd’s fearless, selfless deed. Capt. Todd, you are THE MAN!!! We motored home witnessing one of the most beautiful sunsets on the water I had ever seen. Final count: 50 Yellowtail, 3 Dorado, 2 Bluefin Tuna, 1 Skipjack. We thank the Lord for such a wonderful trip to end the year with.
Report by, Dave Shill

Round #6 was the final qualifying round of the 2011 Salt Water Bass Anglers tournament series. It was held out of Mission Bay, San Diego. There were no boundaries and teams could fish for all 3 species of Bass.
Of the four FIB’er teams who competed, Team Shaka had the best finish – 17th place with 13.38 #’s
Team Bassbusters finished in 20th with 12.56#’s

Team Anchored finished in 26th with 10.80#’s

Team Reefrunner finished in 29th with 10.46#’s

Please pray for their safety and success.

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.

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.

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.

(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!!

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.

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.