6-24-06 on the Coroloma 3/4 day - California Fishing

PlatinumHooks · 06-24-2006, 08:26 PM

Decided last night that Jon(Wahoo!), Chris(CST) and I would head out for a 3/4 day on the Coroloma today.

Jon and Chris got to my house at about 5:00am and we headed down to the Coroloma (out of Ventura Sportfishing Center).

Got on the boat and the boat headed out at about 6am sharp (already baited up). There were 20 anglers on board so it was an very lite load (loved it). Bait was so so; mostly small 'choves but had some decent size Sardines in the Mix and also dead stripped squid.

It was about an hour and a half ride out to the backside of Santa Cruz Island. Capt. Chris Volaski said it was probably the roughest he's ever seen coming up though "The Gap"(the space between Santa Cruz and Anacapa Islands).

Stupid me forgot my Bonine at home (and I'm one of those anglers that gets sea sick if it's really rough), well it was really rough ..........................and yeah, I did.

( what an idiot)

Anyway Chris Volaski gave me some stuff that he recommends taking and everything was cool. Chilled up in the wheel house with the capt. until the meds took effect.

Got to the back of Santa Cruz and started out targeting Rockfish to get that stuff out of the way. We were dropping in about 300ft of water (pretty deep). Every one rigged up. I was on a single dropper loop and Chris(CST) and Jon were on doubles. I don't like doing double dropper loop rigs when it's that deep. we were dropping with about 13 - 15 oz of weight (Jon was using over 20 oz.'s) Current was decently strong. Anyway stayed here a while and nothing. The Capt. said he wanted to move so we started bringing 'em up . As I was bringing up my rig, it was killing me. I couldn't figure out why, didn't even remotely feel a fish on. Finally my tip starts really going bendo and I finally brought the first fish of the day to color. Soon as I saw it, I new it would most likely jackpot...a 7lb. cow V-Rock (Vermillion Rockfish). This thing was pretty much a slab.

Moved to a shallower spot and the bite seemed to die off a bit; though I did manage one Johnny Bass and an almost legal Ling. Chris brought up a decent size Sheepshead and Jon landed a few medium small Rocks.

to move this report along...... we moved locations a couple more times throughout the day. the Bite was pretty slow today with the exception of the second to the last spot being a "hot spot" for 1 -2 inch short of the legal limit Lingcods (frustrating!) I must have landed 3 in that spot...CHris and Jon landed even more.

At the end of the day Chris got some nice fillets, Jon was generous and gave his fish to some of the anglers on the boat and I; of course, jackpotted with a 7lb. Vermillion Rockfish ......gave the jackpot cash to the boat as a tip from Myself, Jon and Chris

Gonna try to get out on the Coroloma again this coming week.

Jon's got the camera with the pics...soon as he sends them to me, I'll up load them.

YakityYak · 06-24-2006, 09:01 PM

It's looked a little stormy the last few days. Thanks for the report. Looking forward to the pics. When are you guys planning on heading out again?

Wahoo! · 06-24-2006, 09:36 PM

Pic Added! Definitely one of the nicest reds I've seen out there. We weighed it on the captains scale and it came out to just under 7#. Beat everyone else by a lot for the jackpot.

I had a good time out there. It was my first time on the Coroloma in years. Water was a little rough and the current was hard to deal with on the drifts over deeper water. I was fishing 24 ounces of lead for most of the time we spent out deep.

The load was really light for a Saturday - 20 people including the three of us - so there was plenty of room to move around. Fishing was slow and people weren't catching much so I gave mine all away to people who wanted them.

We were finishing off the day in shallower water and getting an ok bite going when Captain Chris heard a good bite on bigger fish was happening and asked everyone if they wanted to stay out a little longer and try to pick up some more fish. Everyone was cool with that so he put us on the spot and we boated some nice fish. I thought it was cool they gave us extra time when they found a decent bite to finish up a slow day.

I had a good time and I'll be back out there soon.

Speed God · 06-24-2006, 11:08 PM

Thanks for the great report!

SUPER nice fish! That's going to make for some good eats!

MOBassman · 06-24-2006, 11:44 PM

Great fish there, Tony! Congrats on catching the jackpot fish.

PlatinumHooks · 06-24-2006, 11:49 PM

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Originally Posted by MOBassman

Great fish there, Tony! Congrats on catching the jackpot fish.

Thanks 'D'.

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Originally Posted by Speed God

Thanks for the great report!

SUPER nice fish! That's going to make for some good eats!

Yeah, the fillets were pretty nice size.

FishSlayer · 06-25-2006, 12:25 AM

Nice!

Lokey · 06-25-2006, 07:22 AM

nice red dude! are you looking into changing my avatar??? lol,..good report dude!

Lo,.

YakityYak · 06-25-2006, 10:33 AM

Just saw the pic. Nice looking V. don't think I've ever seen one with yellow on it.

Lokey · 06-25-2006, 10:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Tony"PltnmHooks"Z.

Anyway Chris Volaski gave me some stuff that he recommends taking and everything was cool. Chilled up in the wheel house with the capt. until the meds took effect.

some of that green stuff??? lol,..