Larry's Blog from the Indian

Larry talking about fishing with B 52 Bucktails and how to pin on strips of squid on your bucktail.

Ranger 85 Whale Watching

The Ranger 85 called me to say they are Whale watching off the Oxnard coast and the last few days they have been seeing Orcas. See if I can get up there this week.


Join Captain Frank and his crew of naturalists on a fun filled voyage of discovery and adventure offshore as you search for Gray Whales, Sea Lions, Seals, Dolphins, Orcas, Sharks, a variety of bird life and many more unique marine animals in the waters surrounding the Channel Islands.

Whale Watching

Rates & Schedule
January 1 through April 11
Departure times:
Weekdays: 11:00am
Weekends: 9:00am and 1:00pm
Individual Rates
Adults: $30
Children (12 & under): $21
Seniors: $26

Channel Islands Sportfishing Center
4151 South Victoria Avenue
Oxnard, CA 93035
805 382 1612
Ranger85.com

Here's video report from Mac Arthur Park

Here's a little video report I did at Mac Arthur Park during a Dan Hernandez Youth Foundation free fishing event. You can find out more at www.danskids,org.

Ranger 85 Whale off Oxnard

The Ranger 85 called me to say they are Whale watching off the Oxnard coast and the last few days they have been seeing Orcas. See if I can get up there this week.
Join Captain Frank and his crew of naturalists on a fun filled voyage of discovery and adventure offshore as you search for Gray Whales, Sea Lions, Seals, Dolphins, Orcas, Sharks, a variety of bird life and many more unique marine animals in the waters surrounding the Channel Islands.

Whale Watching

Rates & Schedule

January 1 through April 11

Departure times:

Weekdays: 11:00am

Weekends: 9:00am and 1:00pm

Individual Rates

Adults: $30

Children (12 & under): $21

Seniors: $26

Channel Islands Sportfishing Center

4151 South Victoria Avenue

Oxnard, CA 93035

805 382 1612

Ranger85.com

A Report from Chris Randel

Just got back in from an over night Dan Hernandez TV show trip with limits of Rockcod for 21 Anglers and everyone had a blast catching fish and being filmed for the up coming show.We had 19 Fat Reds ,47 Quality Grouper,28 Bank Perch,2 Lingcod,1 Cowcod and 113 assorted Rockcod fishing the Finger Bank in Mexican waters.

As a bonus the weather was flat calm and Sunny till around noon when the Marine layer developed and it cooled down a bit but thats OK.

We are sold out for next Tuesday nights trip but still have room on Friday nights trip and if anyone would like to jump on this trip give Chris a call at (619) 523-8862 and we will get you on the water.

PS The Indian has a great deal on his Mexican water rockfish trips. $99.00 on Wed. and $125.00 on the weekend, includes Mexican permit and lunch. Contact Chris at 619-523-8862

Getting Ready for Indian Trip

I like to take two rods one rated 30 to 80 lbs. for my ganion rod and a 30 to 60lb rod for fishing the heavy jigs. In Mexican waters you can use a four hook ganion. On this I use 1/2oz B-52 bucktails on the bottom two and plain or shrimp-fly hooks on the upper. Another trick I like to use for sinkers is to take an assortment of torpido sinkers from 6 to 16ozs. and some split rings. This way when I need more weight to get to the bottom I just add another torpido sinker via the split ring to the other.  In a few days I'll give a full report on our trip.

SST, Chlorophyl Charts

SST, Chlorophyl, and other sea conditions


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SCCOOS SST, Chlorophyl and other usefull information.

Ranger 85 November 2010

Fishing San Nicolas Island in beautiful weather on the Ranger 85 we caught Nice rockfish, lingcods and even had a shot at some yellowtails.

Winter B-52 Rig

January and Febuary we are fishing for sandbass and sculpin. A great rig to use here is a dropper-loop rig with the the bait leader longer then the sinker leader and a 1/2 oz. B-52 tied on to the bait leader.

Another Record Tuna

The Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo, Japan sells a bluefin tuna for $396,000 a new record for the sale of a blufin tuna. The tuna weighed in at 754 lbs. and sold for $526.00 per pound. Now that makes me appreciate the bluefin we catch during the spring and summer seasons, makes those high price offshore trips seem less expensive. I love to tuna fish anyway.

End of 2010

Only one more day to the end of the year and one last chance to catch rockfisn in So. Cal waters until March. Dan and I worked out the 2011 charter schedual now its a matter of getting the boats for the dates we picked. As the boats and dates are confirmed they will be posted on the web site. One is already up and people are signing up. Hope to see you on a trip in 2011 and a have a Happy New Year.

Record Yellowfin Tuna

Just heard that Mike Livingston, who caught the record tuna is a regular customer at Johnny's Sport Shop in Pasadena. Bob Ota the owner of the tackle store has great info on long range fishing.

Potential World Record

A potential IGFA world record yellowfin tuna was weighted at the Point Loma Sportfishing scale this morning. The angler Mike Livingston of Sunland Ca. landed the 405.2 pound tuna while fishing on a 10 day trip aboard the boat Vagabond captained by Mike Lackey.

Veterans Day

Westerly Lobster Report

We left Pierpoint Landing and started with 2 tanks of live squid and headed to San Clemente Isl. for our day of fishing and on our way we looked to catch some mackeral for lobster bait but as usual when you want to catch mackral they are hard to find. Once at the island we started bass fishing. A few nice ones were caught but the lack of currant made fishing tough. We ended with some rockfish and all the junk fish went to the lobster bait box. Around 6pm we started to drop the 10 traps. After the last trap was dropped we would back to the first trap and pull it up to see what was caught. Caught a lot of lobsters but they were all short. around 10pm the navy ordered us away from the island so it was decided to go to Catalina Isl. and put in a few hours of lobster fishing there.

Here we got 4 leagles and released many shorts. This was a fun trip too bad the fishing was tough but thats fishing. We had good food from cook Marcy and Captian John kept moving the boat to find us fish and lobsters.

Newport Bay

We fished Newport Bay on a dry and sunny Sunday fishing primerlyn for spotfin croakers. Well they were not to be found but we did catch many yellowfin croakers, spotted bay bass a halibut and some sandbass. Always suprises me that dan can catch the strangest fish as he pulled in a fish identified as a midshipman. Was a lot of fun for a few hours fishing.

Gail Force Report

We left LA Harbor sportfishing at 6am on the Gail Force with cold and wet weather on us but by the time we reached Catalina Isl. it was dry and sunny t-shirt weather. We started at White Landing with calico bass and bonitos. We went east but found little current so we started working west and found some current and more bass and bonito. With only live squid for bait the bass fishing was good but the bonito fishing was so-so. There were no yellowtails or seabass. We finished the day west of the Isthmus and headed home on a beautiful flat seas.

Whte Seabass

After our latest visit to Monterey Bay and seeing all the 50 and 60 lb. fish we are heading up the coast with the Skeeter and try our skill or luck at catching them. In the Bay they fish the seabass different then we do down here. You look for the squid areas then drift with light line 20lb. test with a 3/8oz. sliding sinker above a swivel and a 6ft. leader to a size 2 hook and a trap hook 6in. below that for the squid. Well try that and also our So. Cal. methods, B52 bucktail jigs and MM2 iron tipped with squid.

Santa Cruiz Cobras

Watching Barrett-Jackson auto auction from Las Vagas and remindes me of what we saw on the Santa Cruiz pier.

Emmeryville

Another great trip on the New Huck Finn and the New Salmon Queen in Emeryville. We fished up on the Marin coast in the morning for rockfish. On the New salmon Queen we fished on the beach in 20ft of water and ended with 6 legal halibuts. In the late morning we moved to the Farllon Islands to get our limits of nice rockfish and a few lingcods. The weather was fogy but the ocean was nice.