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Topic subjectNorth Goleta Float Tubing - August 2, 2008
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14594, North Goleta Float Tubing - August 2, 2008
Posted by Big Hammer, Mon Aug-04-08 07:29 AM
Float tubed North Goleta with Bryan Saturday morning. Started off slow for the first hour or so. Bryan hooks up first with a short (about 20 inch) seabass while flipping a 4 inch Redrum colored swimbait near structure. After that he worked his way out deeper continuing to fish the structure/kelp and ended up with four or five calicos and a rockfish. I started to follow him but really wanted to fish shallow so it didn't last long and I went back in tight. Flipped the 4 inch bait around structure for a little while, got bored, grabbed my heaver rod with a 5.5 inch Keylime and started throwing it around. Concentrating on where the inshore, slightly muddy, water tranformed into the nice clear green water just behind the breakers. Hooked up after about five minutes and proceeded to land a barely legal white seabass. Taped out at exactly 28 inches in the tube - too close for comfort so I let it go. Continued with my pattern and picked up two more seabass (26 and 24 inches) and about a 20 inch halibut. On my way back to shore I started flipping the 4 inch Bay Smelt on the new 3/8 oz. 4/0 prototype jig head and picked up two more short halibut (16 to 18 inch range).