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On the afternoon of August 26 we had the Al
Regis crew out for rockfish and spanish mackerel. Shown with some of their catch,
(from left to right) that's Al, Juan, "Rooster", Doug, and Bob. Happy
Birthday Al! |
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Pictured at left is the largest spot we've had
on board the "Worm" this year, a 12 inch handful, which was caught by Al.
The big spot took a crab bait before a rockfish could get to it. |
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Here we have the Pat Montgomery crew of August
26. From left to right, that's JoAnne, Pat, Charlie, and Bob with some of their
limits of rockfish and a few spanish mackerel. |
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And here's Eli, a member of the Ira Reiz crew
from August 25. Eli doubled up with a 20 inch rockfish and a 17 inch croaker. |
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And here we have three generations of Hazens,
two Arts, and a Scott. Just shout "fish on, Hazen" and stand out of the
way. Shown with some of their rockfish, mackerel, and blues, (from left to right)
that's Hazen's son Hazen, Art's son Art, Hazen, Art McCrea, Hazen's grandson, and Art's
son Scott. Confused? -- not me. |
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That's Cheryl on the left and Chris on the
right with a couple fine spanish mackerel. They were part of the Mike Fox crew of
August 19. |
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The Fox crew consisted of Mark, Don, Clyde,
Cheryl, Charlie, and Chris. They boated more than 50 mackerel and a pile of small
blues. Small Clark's spoons trolled fast (around 6 mph) kept the small rockfish
away, well, most of them anyway. |
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We don't normally take photos of coolers full
of fish, but it's OK once in awhile. The fish with the spots are the spanish
mackerel. |
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And here we have the Eric Lusby crew from the
afternoon of August 18, shown with their limits of rockfish caught while chumming on the
Gooses. From left to right, that's Arthur, Sean, Eric, Rick, Tom, and Dana. |
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Here's the Zeke Gibson crew of August 18 from
Green Contracting, shown with part of their catch of nice rockfish to 34 inches and one
nice trout. From left to right, that's Luke, Zeke, Dave, Mike, and Steve. We
missed you Randy, maybe next time... |
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And this is Dave with a beautiful 36 inch
rockfish, quite a trophy catch for this time of year. |
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On the afternoon of August 13 we had the Mark
Mangold crew out trolling for big rockfish. From left to right, that's Darren, Mark
Mangold, Jack, Mark, and Chad with part of their catch of rockfish. |
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Sunday August 13 and the weather was simply
awful -- winds around 20 mph and waves nearly 6 feet, but the Darren Kyles crew was ready
to troll for big rockfish. From left to right, that's Rock, Richard, Darren, Buddy,
Steve, and Andrew with some of their rockfish to 36 inches. |
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And here's the Rico Aventino crew of August 12
with part of their catch of rockfish, blues, and spanish mackerel. That's Rico on
the left, followed by Renato, Bernie, Allan, and EJ. Good catch guys. |
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Here's a closeup of Allan with a beautiful
spanish mackerel. |
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And here we have a closeup of Bernie and Rico
with a couple fine rockfish. |
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Some crews just want to pursue big rockfish,
even when it's mid-summer. Here's the Jimmy Rapp crew of August 11 with part of
their limit catches of rockfish to 35 inches. From left to right, that's Reggie,
Aaron, Dave, and Jimmy. Quite an impressive catch for mid-August! |
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No need to adjust your monitor. Light
tackle enthusiasts love to see breaking fish, and mixed schools of blues, rockfish and now
spanish mackerel can produce lots of thrills. Dave Donahower and crew were on board the
Worm August 10 when Captain Drew found the water churned white by hungry predators. |
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Here are Dave Devlin (left) and Dave Donahower
with some of the spanish mackerel they caught from schools like the one shown above.
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The weather August 6 was pretty choppy, but at
least it wasn't raining in the morning. After catching limits of rockfish while
chumming at the Gooses, we went looking for trophy sized trout and here's what we found --
Shane on the left with a 25 inch beauty and Steve on the right with a 29 inch monster
yellowfin. |
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Here's the entire Paul Bauer crew with some of
their rockfish and trout. From left to right, that's Russell, Mike, Wayne, Paul,
Steve, and Shane. |
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On August 5 we had Kevin Eller of K&M
Contracting with crews spread across the "Worm" and two other boats. Here
we have, from left to right, Charlie, John, Steve, Juan, Ken, and Kevin. All crews
caught limits of rockfish and then went trolling for bluefish and seatrout. |
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Here's the K&M Contracting crew from the
"Kyran Lynn" with part of their catch. Unfortunately, the "Never
Enuff" crew eluded the camera. |
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Here we have Chuck Horton of Quality Electric
with his crew from August 4. From left to right, that's Ed, Chuck, Eric, Earl, Mike,
and John. Limits of rockfish and a few large croaker were followed by bluefish and a
few trout. |
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Here's Eric with a nice 24 inch yellowfin
trout, largest of the day. |
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Can you say "Mike, we missed you"?
On August 2 we had the Morry Frankel (center) crew down from Pittsburgh, this time
without Mike (AKA Chief). That's Sandy on the left and John on the far right.
After mashing up the rockfish, we caught some blues and then some croaker and spot.
We all had a good time. |
