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RichardG
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Initially Posted - 04/23/2002 : 17:42:31

I enjoy fishing while I'm out sailing, both during out-and-back day trips or longer overnight excursions. I'm guessing others do also.

My question is this: What is your favorite trolling lure while sailing and what is your typical catch?

For me:

Lure -- Sinking Rapalla (Mackerel pattern)
Fish -- Barracuda, Yellowtail, Calico Bass

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RichardG 81 C25 SR/FK "Sanity"

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Bristle
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Response Posted - 04/23/2002 : 21:06:21

Lure: 5" trebble with a .5 lb lead sinker

Catches: Lobster pots, Firestones, and an occasional Michelin.
(...but they don't try to swim under the keel and run my line around the shrouds!) <img src=icon_smile_cool.gif border=0 align=middle>

Dave Bristle, 1985 C-25 SR-FK #5032 "Passage" in CT

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Douglas
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Response Posted - 04/23/2002 : 22:56:51

Pink squid lure set up on a line with sugical tubing shock absorber. Power bait wad in squids head. Catch Salmon, smoke or poach but best on the BBQ. When that doesn't work put out the crab pots. Boil or roast upside down on camp fire coals.

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FrankV
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Response Posted - 04/24/2002 : 11:44:20

We troll for sand bass and the occasional striper using simple slab spoons in chrome and lime green. My 7 year old caught his first fish 3 years ago using this setup. The look on his face when he pulled up a big sandy over the side is a priceless memory.

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John Mason
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Response Posted - 04/24/2002 : 13:49:45

Whatever happens to be in my meager tackle box and so far only small dogfish. I'm going to put out a more concerted effort this season. In the meantime, I've had great luck with the crabpot baited with chicken wings. Of course, I'm not trolling with it <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>. I pick up mostly rock crabs in the South Puget Sound, but farther north have caught a few dungeness.

John Mason - Ali Paroosa
1982 - FK/SR #3290

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Champipple
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Response Posted - 04/24/2002 : 14:09:51

a nice storm Jib, no main, enough wind to make 2-3 knots and an erie dearie lure. Catch is Walleye and I like them grilled off the stern grill.

Duane Wolff
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Response Posted - 04/24/2002 : 14:11:45

I wish crab and lobster pots would work in Lake Erie...

Duane Wolff
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Bristle
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Response Posted - 04/24/2002 : 15:12:13

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I wish crab and lobster pots would work in Lake Erie...
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Leave 'em in long enough and maybe they'll fill up with zebra mussels.

Dave Bristle, 1985 C-25 SR-FK #5032 "Passage" in CT

PS: They're not working very will in Long Island Sound, either. The lobstermen are S.O.L.

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Response Posted - 04/24/2002 : 15:50:39

Use a white bucktail jig for stripers or bluefish; works great on mackeral & yellowfin tuna if any are around.

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tinob
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Response Posted - 04/24/2002 : 16:53:50

[quote]
I enjoy fishing while I'm out sailing, both during out-and-back day trips or longer overnight excursions. I'm guessing others do also.

My question is this: What is your favorite trolling lure while sailing and what is your typical catch?

For me:

Lure -- Sinking Rapalla (Mackerel pattern)
Fish -- Barracuda, Yellowtail, Calico Bass
Richard,

I run a couple of pole mounts one on each side of the stern rail with a pair of weakfish poles therein, 10 lb test mono and usually silver weedless spoons, sometimes plain othertimes with squid strips or plastic whiptail grubs. I've been experimenting with a diving plane but so far unsuccessfully. The bay here is full of eel grass(the reason for weedless spoons)and the water is seldom more than six feet and the fish usually are on the bottom. If I take someone out to fish I pin hook with squid pieces and pick kingfish till the creel is full. No end of them, no size either, and no limit.
If we go outside (Atlantic) then we switch to Hopkins or Castmasters
for shiny presentation or Atom popper plugs for top attraction. Outside bait fishing tends to go to live eels or bunker chunks. These require heavier gear and we don't usually carry such on the boat they are relegated to the buggies(4X4s).
The boat went in yesterday and today I took it out for a shakedown sail picking up a sea robin in the process. That was a curiosity, don't usually see them in the bay.
Do you use any of those fancy thingies that they use on the sportsman fishing shows? This fellow on T.V.last night was using a watermellon colored plastic with a silver spoon and it looked too complicated for our fish. I'd fear using such around here, likely I'd scare all the fish up on to the beach. Not sportsmanly Ya know.
Val on "CALISTA" # 3936 Tall Wing

Val Bisagni

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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 04/24/2002 : 18:01:19

"Catch is Walleye and I like them grilled "

Ah Duane! I remember walleye from fly-in trips to N.Manitoba...fresh caught, filleted and grilled on an open fire...cold beer to hand. It didn't get any better than that (we should have taken a Miller TV Commercial crew with us!).
Derek - now making do with redfish, black drum and speckled trout.

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Response Posted - 04/24/2002 : 18:58:04

I don't fish, but I thought Richard should know that his freakin' skivies are showing!<img src=icon_smile_shock.gif border=0 align=middle>

Tray
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RichardG
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Response Posted - 04/24/2002 : 19:35:08

Tray:

That's Sarah....and at 23 months she doesn't really care if anything is showing!

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RichardG 81 C25 SR/FK "Sanity"

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gnorgan
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Response Posted - 04/27/2002 : 01:27:05

Richard, where were you fishing when you took the pictures of your daughter (she sure is a cute one....reminds me of my daughter and my son when they were that young...now they are 16 and 17, respectively)
I am putting my boat in Lake Perris out between Riverside / March AFB and Hemet. Fishing is supposed to be fairly good there and I WILL be doing some fishing when I go out sailing. The lake is only 20 minutes from my home on the east end of the valley up against the San Jacinto mountains so I will be doing lots of sailing right after school lets out 2:45 until sunset from now until the end of school. I used to sail out of Oceanside but it got to be too far a drive (almost 2 hours) and the other people on the road tried to kill us once too many times for my wife and I.
We may put the boat in LA harbor like you suggested seeing how much less money it costs. Where do you slip your boat?
Gary
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RichardG
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Response Posted - 04/29/2002 : 13:33:03

Two Harbors:
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Long Beach Harbor, near Belmont Pier:
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Holiday Harbor Wilmington (310) 835-3952. It's not pretty, but it works. I believe they are the least expensive slips in LA or Orange County. But don't let looks fool you -- security appears to be better than other fancier, more expensive marinas. I credit the informal "vigilante justice" employed by the numerous liveaboards.

My "slip neighbor" also has a C25. He lives in Riverside and I think he spends more time with his boat than me (and I live only 10 minutes away!). But his kids are grown. And he also takes advantage of the carpool lanes, which cuts down on the marina commute considerably.

RichardG 81 C25 SR/FK "Sanity"

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RichardG
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Response Posted - 04/29/2002 : 18:34:08

Dodging giant container ships and cruise ships somewhere in LA Harbor...
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RichardG 81 C25 SR/FK "Sanity"

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