Fished out of Santa Barbara again today, this time I had Dimitri (aka captain acorn) I will explain that later, and a good friend of our John Yokayama, who incidentaly makes a mean spam sushie roll! anyways hoping for a repeat of the last few weekends we hit the one mile reef, to my amazement the water temp was back up to 54 degrees from last weekends 51.5! the only problem was the drift was all wrong, but we worked it hard hitting about 6 spots in the general area including Marty’s new spot, and we picked at the bass ok but not like it has been, we worked that area till noon than ran down to the horseshoe rock where again the current was all wrong, but the bass didn’t seem to care, we picked at them pretty good once we found the part of the reef the biting fish were on. And now for the captain acorn part, Dimtri decides he wants take the wheel and set us up for a couple of drifts, and we actually caught fish on his positioning, after which he exclaims “see even a blind squirrel can find a nut sometimes” thus his new nick name capt acorn! Anyways we finished up the day with 65 legal mixed bass 40/60 sandie/calico mix to 3 lbs with all but 4 sandies that John kept for his mother released, all caught on 4-5 in big hammers with most colors getting bit ,but reef critter, calico hunter special with and without red flake, and clear/red flake getting the nod .

An observation for those that might be heading out to these areas tomarrow, the calicos were were suspended up in the upper half of the water column and the sandies were hugging the bottom, so work the whole water column, especially if you fish shoe rock. Good luck everybody!…Larry

P.S. I will back up Monday weather permitting for a half day run.