LARRC on the Dawn

Seventeen anglers boarded the Pacific Dawn out of Ventura Sportfishing on Friday night, December 4th.  Fernando gave us the safety speech and told us Captain Dustin would be taking us to either Santa Rosa or San Miguel Island to fish rockfish. 

When we got up the next morning, Richie was making breakfast and the sun was just coming up.  We were at San Miguel Island and Dustin was looking for a deep spot for us to fish because the swell was too high to fish shallow water spots.  Surprisingly, once the sun was up, it was t-shirt weather.

The drift was slow so we were able to get several drops before moving the boat.  Fernando practiced the first few drops and set us right over big reds.  As the day progressed, it became a two species trip - you either hooked a ling cod or a red and both were biting well.

Here are a few photos of the day:

At the end of the day, we had full limits of reds and ling cod.  Tom won the JP with a big ling cod.  Crew filleted our fish while we napped during the trip back.  We were back at dock at 7 pm and on our way home by 7:30 pm with ice chests full of fresh fish filets.