This report is originally from GlumaceFishing.com.
http://glumacefishing.com/2011/08/42nd-trip-twilight-bass-trip-on-the-spectra-8-17-11/ 

Finally got back out on the water this year with Jonathan and friends. Been a busy year for me, got some freshwater fishing in as well, but very little saltwater. Set up a twilight on the Spectra which is now running out of 22nd Street Landing in San Pedro. My friends Chris and Noreen came back out again with us along with Kyle who went out last summer on a twilight with us. He brought along two friend, it was the first time out on the water for both of them. Captain Chris and Ted were the crew for the night and we stopped at the San Pedro bait barge and picked up some anchovies and some squid. It was a beautiful night, warm water and no wind perfect night for hunting sand bass.

Got to our spot on Izors Reef and started to work away at the bass. It was slow fishing but steady at times. We decided to wait out the spot as other twilight boats came and went. We ended up with 30 bass on board, Jonathan caught one small sculpin as well. Beautiful night on the water, with no wind and nice and flat. Everyone had a great time, and the new guys got their first salt water fish, both sand bass. Captain Chris and Ted did a great job as always on the Spectra and we hope to get back out here in September on a full day or 3/4 day trip!

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Fly lined live squid and sardines for a total of 5 White Sea Bass, 3 big barracuda,  1 big fat bonito and 5 lost yellows and or seabass.

We would also like to give a shout out to an awesome group of guys who came out on the charter, true class clients and we hope to have you out again soon!

Call us at 310-701-9172 or email us at info@spectrasportfishing.com and book your own adventure!

Fishing is excellent at the islands and in local waters!

Call us at 310-701-9172 or email us at info@spectrasportfishing.com and book your own adventure!

We boated a nice white seabass and limits of sheephead for everyone on board.  We stopped at half limits of 2-4 lb calicos and released another 40-50 legal fish.

We caught and safely released a 10 lb cutie baby black seabass as well.

The backside was as calm as it gets and the weather was beautiful.

Call us at 310-701-9172 and book your own adventure!

Sorry not many photos from this trip!

Call Spectra today at 310-701-9172 or contact us by email at info@spectrasportfishing.com today!

The Spectra is now running out of 22nd Street Landing in San Pedro, CA.

Now is the time to book your trips for the best dates available.

Call Spectra today at 310-701-9172 or contact us by email at info@spectrasportfishing.com today!

Finally got back out on the water this past Sunday with Jonathan and friends who went on my April charter to Catalina on the Tide Change (read report here). Got back out on the Spectra again as well. This was a 1/2 day run out to the rockfish hole and hit the sculpin grounds for some good fishing for this group. Left the dock from Pierpoint right before six with Captain Chris and deckhands Ted and Dennis. This was my 3rd charter of the year taking out people who have never fished before, or have only been out with me once or twice. It’s fun working with and watching people learn to enjoy fishing.

From 32nd Trip: Rockfishing Trip on the Spectra

Chris gave everyone the rundown on what we were going to do as we headed out. Hit the spot for salmon grouper (Bocaccio) that we have been out at before (read my report on my last trip on the Spectra) then head over to fish sculpin and be back at the dock around 1:30pm or so. For the majorty of the people out on this trip (other than myself, my son Jonathan) this was only the second trip out on the water. The last charter we caught a few rockfish and conditions were tough, today was a total 180, great flat weather and a ton of fish. Limits on almost everything for everyone and crew. Just as a taste of what is to come, here is the biggest fish of the day and our final load of fish in the cooler…

From 32nd Trip: Rockfishing Trip on the Spectra

From 32nd Trip: Rockfishing Trip on the Spectra

From 32nd Trip: Rockfishing Trip on the Spectra

Stopped by the bait barge and picked up some sardines and small mackerel. The bigger the bait, the bigger the salmon grouper.

From 32nd Trip: Rockfishing Trip on the Spectra

From 32nd Trip: Rockfishing Trip on the Spectra

Got out to the spot in about an hour and Dennis took care of everyone going out, rigging up and making sure everything ready.

Everyone got to see some dolphins play with the boat darting along the bow and playing the wake as well. Weather was a bit overcast, but flat and nice. Slowed down the engines out near the rigs and got the first yell from Ted to drop down. Everyone but my son Jonathan was set up with an 8oz sinker with a double dropper loop with big hooks, and big sardines or small mackerel. Jonathan had a single hook, but I was helping him fish with a big mackerel on it, hoping for one of those big lings to hit down there.

Everyone dropped, a few birds nests happened, a few people had never used a conventional set up but everyone got to the bottom to get hit on the first drift. Everyone hooked up and fun began. I’ll let the photos tell the story.

From 32nd Trip: Rockfishing Trip on the Spectra

From 32nd Trip: Rockfishing Trip on the Spectra

From 32nd Trip: Rockfishing Trip on the Spectra

From 32nd Trip: Rockfishing Trip on the Spectra

From 32nd Trip: Rockfishing Trip on the Spectra

Jonathan and his nice salmon grouper.

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More happy anglers

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From 32nd Trip: Rockfishing Trip on the Spectra

Did a total of 3 drifts on the spot. Had a few tangles but we pulled our boat limits in about 45 minutes on the spot. Ted the deckhand caught one of the biggest salmon groupers we had seen in a long time fishing with a big mackerel. Here is the fish in front of Jonathan (and yes, this is not held out from him, it’s right in front of his chest).

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Quality fish all around. Here is the cooler full.

From 32nd Trip: Rockfishing Trip on the Spectra

From 32nd Trip: Rockfishing Trip on the Spectra

We cleaned everything up and headed out about 20 minutes away to the sculpin grounds to see what we could do there. Anchored up and got to work. Kept the same set up as the salmon grouper, but I had a big bag of green 2″ plastics I picked up at the Fred Hall Show earlier this year and I switched out to the lead head with one on. We fished with cut mackerel from the bait tank along with the lead head. Me and Jonathan were the first to the bottom and hooked up on a nice sculpin right away.

From 32nd Trip: Rockfishing Trip on the Spectra

We also found the sand dabs in the same spot and if you did not have a green plastic on, all you got was the sand dabs. Every drop produced either a nice sized sand dab or a sculpin, hardly ever came up empty handed on the boat. So for the next few hours we slayed them all. Everyone was having fun, most had never seen or caught either and we had limits on sculpin and about 50 sand dabs in 2 hours.

I’ll let the photos tell the story again…

From 32nd Trip: Rockfishing Trip on the Spectra

From 32nd Trip: Rockfishing Trip on the Spectra

From 32nd Trip: Rockfishing Trip on the Spectra

From 32nd Trip: Rockfishing Trip on the Spectra

From 32nd Trip: Rockfishing Trip on the Spectra

From 32nd Trip: Rockfishing Trip on the Spectra

Even the Freelance got in on the fun…

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One of the lone pictures of me and my son, hardly ever get in the pictures when you are taking them.

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Jonathan’s first Sand Dab

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From 32nd Trip: Rockfishing Trip on the Spectra

We decided to call it a day around 11:45 and headed back to the barn. We had a ton of fish on board. Here is the cooler full the brim. I would not want to fall on top of that sculpin pile, makes me shutter just thinking about it.

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Happy angler

From 32nd Trip: Rockfishing Trip on the Spectra

Ted worked hard to clean all the fish on the way back in. Took him almost an hour and a half but everyone went home with big bags of fish.

From 32nd Trip: Rockfishing Trip on the Spectra

From 32nd Trip: Rockfishing Trip on the Spectra

Once again the Spectra came through for me and my charter and the crew was excellent. Dennis went way above and beyond the call to help everyone have a great time, and Chris was all over the place helping everyone. Ted put us on the fish as always and did an beautiful (and hard) job cleaning and putting everything together. I can’t recommend this boat enough to people. Billy runs a great operation with Spectra Sportfishing. I get to go out again this coming Thursday with another group I put together and I’m looking forward to it. Everyone went home happy and with a lot of fish to fill the freezers.

To read the Spectra report about this trip click here…

Catalina’s seabass bite takes ‘the slide’

BY BRANDON HAYWARD/WON Staff Writer
Original Article Link: http://www.wonews.com/t-SCSaltReports_hayward_033010.aspx

LONG BEACH — After giving up an exciting start to kick off the spring season, the white seabass bite at Catalina fell flat on its face last week. Over at Clemente, the Seahorse was able to find two yellowtail on Saturday, which ratcheted that island’s spring yellowtail count up to a whopping 3 yellows.

Bait has been an issue at Catalina. Actually, it’s been a major problem. There’s been almost no live squid available — the little bit that had been around on the middle of the front dried up leading into the full moon.

The last sportboat to catch a seabass last week was the six-pack Spectra, which ran its first open party trip with Tino Valantine at the helm for 2 school-sized seabass on Wednesday.

Valantine was back at his usual gig running the Options from Thursday through Sunday, and the seabass were nowhere to be found, despite covering the entire island.

“We made that squid on the front Thursday night, but that was the last night there was bait,” said Valantine. While live squid has been tough to make, the fresh dead in the freezer has been coming in handy. “We had limits of calico bass on Sunday. Mot of it was in the dark. It was flat-out wide-open night bass fishing for the guys that stayed up. We had a couple of short seabass from the shallow water spots.”

While the counts might not reflect it, Catalina is — or was leading up to this week’s front — in pretty good shape. Valantine had 60-plus degree water for the weekend trips, and plenty of “seabass water” to fish. The water was up to 63.2 when he left in flat calm conditions Sunday afternoon.

The only exotics in the counts since the Wednesday seabass at Catalina came from the Seahorse’s trip to San Clemente Island on Saturday. The Dana Wharf overnight boat had 25- and 28-pound yellowtail latch onto the yo-yo irons.

“I saw a little bit of fish around on Saturday when we had the two, but on Sunday it was only up once and we never got on it,” said Seahorse owner/operator Tyler Elzig on a call with WON. Clemente got a lot of coverage over the weekend from the fleet from Dana Point to Long Beach. Given this season’s El Niño hype, the island has been a real letdown this spring.