LARRC on the Dawn

Great fishing May 26th with Captain Pat Cavanaugh and crew of Fernando, Mandog, Mike and Ritchie.  Flat calm seas all the way to Cruz, Rosa and Miguel. 

The seabass were a no-show but we had a wide open bite on baby sea lions at Rosa at least those of us awake early did.  We had no keeper fish before we reached San Miguel at 10:30 a.m. when we began catching big reds.  Tom, Jim and I fished the bow as usual. 

My first three fish were reds so my trip was made early.  We had very good fishing for reds and other rockfish.  Once we had limits, Pat moved the boat to shallow water and we fished plastics for lingcod.  I used an orange paddletail on a 2 ounce red leadhead and caught 5 lingcod, 3 reds, 2 chucklehead, a couple olive rockfish and a cabazon all on the same plastic.

We finished up with limits of lingcod and headed back to dock arriving around 8:30 p.m.  By the time we unloaded, iced down our fish it was nearly 9 pm.  I reached home just after midnight.