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.

Another nice fish for Rich, what else is new.

Lawrence landed this nice calico bass while we waited for conditions to improve and hopefully get another shot at the yellows.