SCOURING THE SEAS SKUNKED 3 TIMES NOW

Ensenada Fishing with Steve (Bad Dog) Ross - Bad Dog's Fish Reports

Written by Steve Ross Sunday, 29 August 2010 08:29

131 miles of driving Bad Dog down off of the San Jose Bank and to the Colnett area and back home for nothing. SKUNKED !
Inspired by fish reports from party boats scoring in these areas on yellowfin tuna we lost no time in immediately responding and trolling the reported areas.  The SST charts showed 71 degrees and today for the same area it shows 66 degrees which matches my instrument on my bridge.
We found one kelp paddy and chummed with live sardines and threw hooked baits onto it and slow trolled it for nada.
Gail and I came back rested as Juan Lu, Jovan and my son Mike drove the whole day in the middle of the San Diego sport fishing Fleet.
The weather was a sloppy 3' with 7 knots of wind with waves being bunched up.  Some fish were seen on the meter at 600 feet deep and no bait to mention was metered anywhere in our travels.  Once again the absence of sardines and anchovies to feed our visitors.  What's a bird ?  I never saw one.  It was wear a jacket weather most of the day with a little sunlight around 4:00 p.m. as I gazed out of the cabin.  Out of a dozen San Diego party boats such as Voyager, Legend, Apollo, Ranger and more I never saw them stop once in the area I found them.  THIS IS OUR THIRD SKUNKED OFFSHORE TRIP IN THE PAST 30 DAYS.
 
DOG

Bassin on the Dog

Ensenada Fishing with Steve (Bad Dog) Ross - Bad Dog's Fish Reports

Written by Steve Ross Monday, 16 August 2010 13:44

Left the Marina Coral @ 0600 and picked up 1/2 scoop of 3 to 4" anchovies and 1/2 scoop of 5 - 7" sardines.

Anchored in 48' outside the kelp a couple miles North of the Marina and began to chum with the small anchovies.  My son Mike caught 3 barracuda on the live bait and I caught a nice 3+ pound calico bass on a M.C.Swimbait.  I was using straight 50 pound Braid right to the lure and it worked out great.  Next Gail nailed a 3 pound 9 ounce calico on a swimbait and we managed a few more before the wind came up with white caps.  I estimate the wind at 12 knots.  I would call this bass fishing........"slow."   No sand bass.  We quit at 11:00 a.m. giving in to the wind and swells.

Bad Dog Chases The Elusive White Seabass Part II

Ensenada Fishing with Steve (Bad Dog) Ross - Bad Dog's Fish Reports

Written by Steve Ross Thursday, 12 August 2010 00:00

Departed Marina Coral August 11th for the La Salina secret white seabass bite.  Upon arrival found 3 other boats with their lights on at 8:30 p.m.  After we anchored in 102 feet of water, we lowered our two bright lights into the water and waited for the squid to find us.  There were squid under our boat all night long but they never left the bottom to come and see us.  We needed the squid for live baits to fish the white seabass.  With no squid on board at 6:15 a.m. we left the area and returned to our Marina Coral slip.  There were at least 6 other boats that were anchored along with us and we never saw any results for them as well. We spent the whole night rocking in the swells and we are beat up. The water was dirty green with kelp and jelly fish at 57.4 degrees........this ain't right for August.   Adios. 

BAD DOG'S BASS HUNT FOR 2010

Ensenada Fishing with Steve (Bad Dog) Ross - Bad Dog's Fish Reports

Written by Steve Ross Thursday, 05 August 2010 13:48

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Mike Ross, Jovan, Juan Lu and me departed Marina Coral at 0500 and took off for the "Little Canal" area of the Punta Banda rocks in search of sand and calico bass. I saw an acre of sand bass exploding there just a few weeks ago.
 
After an hour of exploration and no bites we travelled to the cans off of Estero Beach where I caught a 3 pound 9 ounce barred sand bass on a Berkley swim bait.
 
After an hour at the cans we moved into deeper water off of Punta Banda whereby we lifted one ling cod, 2 vermilion, and 14 assorted rock fish.  All were caught on cut squid in 200 feet of water.  Best fish was a 3 pound one ounce vermillian.
  
After 3 hours of bottom fishing, we travelled to the kelps North of Marina Coral where we anchored in 50 feet of water and I began heavy chumming of cut squid.
 
We proceeded to catch 7 calico bass, 4 on plastics 3 on live anchovies and live sardines.  Best fish was a 3 pound 10 ounce calico bass which I caught on a plastic swim bait.
 
We also caught another sand bass and two white fish to conclude our day at 3:30 p.m.
The Marina Coral closed their fuel dock before we arrived at 4:15 p.m.
 
The water was 63 degrees and green at the kelp bed the rock cod were caught in 61 degree water.  Winds were just under 10 knots and seas were a bit choppy at 1 to 2'.  The sun came out at 2:00 p.m.
Total 33.5 nautical miles for the day......Gail will be very happy after all the large bills generated from looking for the Holy Grails offshore for the past month.
 
All in all it was great fun.
 
Your buddy.................Steve
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 RAOL......RIP.   I miss you.  Fred is fine, lots of water to drink and food to eat.  I built him a little house.  Lots of play time with his buddies.