Here is Shana with a nice Calico Bass.

Nice calico Barry! We had a great time fishing with Captain Mike Bullard and crew on the Pacific Star. They did many trips to Guadalupe this year, and plan on doing many more next year. Also, the Pacific Star will be fishing out of Pierpoint Landing this spring!

Here's Baja Dave with one hand full of calicos and the other hand on a beer!

After trying Anacapa for a while we made the move to Santa Cruz. We fished Pedro Point, Smuggler's Cove, and Yellowbanks. Capt John kept moving looking for the fish. We ended up fishing in the kelp beds at Yellowbanks. Here's Wayne with a nice Santa Cruz Island calico (the fish was released after the photo).

Another nice calico pulled out of the kelp.

Here's Albino Barretto with the right kind!

Here's Bill with a nice catch.

Here's Art with a fighter.

This angler safely put his fish to sleep.

In the afternoon we checked the surface bite and found a few Calico Bass.

We shoved off on time , baited up and were heading for San Clemente in no time. I grabbed a bunk and drifted off to sleep with a bad case of Deja Vu. I woke up to the sound of the anchor being dropped and thought it was all just a dream. But oh no, it wasn't a dream because there they were. The Pradin Brothers were on board and hooked up already. I fished with the brothers on a recent trip and these guys threw about 20 yellows over the rail so I wasn't surprise when they hooked the first nice calicos of the day.

Vince figured he better get on board and work on his skills while his boy Steven was busy at school. Vince brings his son when he can and its fun to watch these guys duke it out for family bragging rights. Steven couldn't make it this time, but we'll see you next time. The calico bass and bonita bite was picking up steam, so we were hopeful that the yellows wouldn't be far behind.

Chris is an accomplished angler as well so it didn't take him long before he hooked into a nice calico bass.

We continued catching nice calicos, bonita and yellows but the persistent Clemente sea lions caught sight of us and had a field day stealing are sardines. They kept the yellows on the outside so you really had to find a lively bait and get it out away from the boat to get bit. Mike with a nice calico

Chris and the rest of the anglers on board fished hard and caught alot of nice calicos. It was nice to see so many of them released as many anglers on the boat opted to return many of these slow growing fish back into the water. Chris with a nice bass he caught and released.

When Laney wasn't hooking big yellows with his jigstick he was up on the bow hooking big calicos.

Nice colors on that calico bass !!! If you like catching calicos you're best chance at catching them this time of year is at San Clemente Island. Home of the monster Calicos!!! Keep a few for the grill and please throw the rest of them back.

Chris never hooked the yellow he was looking for but he did catch some really nice calicos including this one. I figured I'd be removing backlashes for Chris all day so I was kinda suprised when I didn't have to untangle a single one for him. I think you're finally getting the hang of those baitcasting reels Chris.

Eugene got the crack of things and hooked up this toad. As I have observed, Eugene is one of the those hardcore fisherman, a veteran.