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.

We travelled for while to get to this spot. Captain Bobby put us on a good spot for this size of Calicos. George got one more toad. By the way, we were on the hot bite of Bonito too.

Another good size calico for Eugene. Picture with our lovely deckhand Robin. She a hard working girl. She gets everybody goin', assisting everyone.

Once the bite shut down Captain Moreno decided to make a move to the frontside of the island is search of some more yellows or calico bass. I don't know what you've heard about the bass fishing lately at Catalina but Captain Moreno put us on a bunch of fish that wanted to bite. The calico bass bite went wide open for a bit as every squid, leadhead, plastic or sardine that hit the water was getting bit. Randy with one of many nice calicos he landed.

Don caught like 15 calicos in about 16 casts with the leadhead and squid and plastics including this nice one.

We released most of the bass but the only thing we were gonna release on this nice eater sized calico was a jar of tartar sauce. You can't eat yellowtail all the time now. The bite went strong for quite awhile before slowly dropping off as conditions changed.

Pesky calico bass were swimming around attacking the squid as well and Brent was having trouble keeping them off his line. Tough problem Aye.

The morning conditions eventually slackens and the yellows backed off so the Captain decided to take a look around for more yellows or some calicos. The live squid produced again when we started nailing some nice calicos. Mike before releasing a calico that couldn't resist a well presented live squid.

Todd with a nicer grade calico bass.

The calico bass bite was steady and Loc was able to land this nice one on the squid.