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The Log • August 1-14, 2014 • 33
Tips from the Bridge Question:
What advice do you have for
anglers fishing on a jam-packed boat?
Capt. Scott Meisel, owner and captain of the Condor out of Fisherman’s Landing in San Diego: When fishing on a
crowded boat like some of the open party trips we run on the Condor, length- en your top shots. A top shot is the piece of monofilament that con- nects to your spectra, then to a hook or artificial of sorts. The worst tangles we see involve spectra. When it’s mono to mono it is much easier to manage. If you think you hate tangles, just think what the crews think of them. It is much easier to just re-tie your hook than to re-connect a top shot and a hook during a bite if you are cut out of a tangle. In my opinion, your spectra should not be in the water unless pulled off
Capt. Scott Meisel
the reel by a fish. Take a small piece of mono and a small piece of spectra, get them wet and set them in some water and watch the spectra float while the mono sinks. How do you think that affects smaller bait? I recommend 100 feet of top shot to my customers. Give it a try. Capt. Scott Meisel can be contacted at
captntuna@yahoo.com, (619) 221- 8500 or
fishermanslanding.com.
Fishing Calendar From page 32
balboaanglingclub@sbcglobal.net, or visit
balboaanglingclub.org.
Sept. 12-13 • Master Angler Billfish Tournament and the IGFA Great Marlin Race, Newport. The 33rd annual tourna- ment welcomes all fishing clubs to partici- pate in the oldest all-release marlin tourna- ment on the west coast. The $175 per angler entry fee includes the kick-off party and captain’s meeting at 5 p.m., Sept. 10 at the Tee Room, located on Irvine Avenue at the Newport Golf Course. An awards cere- mony, banquet and raffle will be held at the Balboa Yacht Club at 5 p.m. Sept. 14. For more details, call (949) 673-6316, email bal-
boaanglingclub@sbcglobal.net, or visit bal-
boaanglingclub.org.
Sept. 27 • Orville P. Ball Memorial “Fishin’ in the Pine,” Lake Cuyamaca. The free annual derby is open to kids up to age 15. Trout fishing starts at 6 a.m., and a free lunch will be prepared by the San Diego Anglers club. Prizes will be awarded to first, second and third place in each age group. A grand prize will be awarded for the largest trout. For more details, call (760) 765-0515, email, or visit
lakecuyamaca.org.
Do you have an event you’d like publicized in FishRap’s Calendar of Events? Email event details at least one month in advance to
John@thelog.com, or send a fax to John W. Scafetta at (949) 660-6150.
Check out the online Event Calendar at
thelog.com.
Local fisherman nabs colossal 482-pound halibut in Alaska
By John W. Scafetta
GLACIER BAY, Alaska — Seasoned fish- erman Jack McGuire could have recog- nized the sound anywhere. With a baited hook of pollack, her-
ring and octopus, the Santa Ana resi- dent, in the throes of his eighth fishing trip to Alaska and fourth consecutive journey to Glacier Bay, simply described the noise as “bump-a-dee- bump.”
As common as the resonance of a halibut chomping at his line has become for McGuire, even he knew something was different about this tug. He and his four friends were fishing with rod holders on the afternoon of July 3, when the tip of his rod quickly angled south. “When that happens you immedi- ately get up and walk over and you put your hand on the handle of the reel,” he said. “And then you watch that tip. If that tip goes bump-a-dee-bump but it starts going down, that’s usually a sign that the fish has the bait in his mouth.” McGuire raced over to the rod and took two quick cranks. “The next thing I know it took off to
the North Pole when I tried to get the line over the back of the boat,” he said. “The captain stuck me in the corner. As soon as I started to do that third crank and that line took off, I hollered out ‘I got a big one!’” McGuire spent nearly 30 minutes fighting the fish, before encountering 10 minutes of pure dead weight. When the men got the catch up to the side of boat, the captain yelled, “Oh my god! We’ve got a monster.” McGuire said he had no idea of the
size of the fish at first crank, but as soon as the captain uttered those words, he knew it was something out of the norm. “Little did we know, we ended up pulling up a monster,” he said. McGuire said his view was blocked
as the men brought the fish aboard. The catch measured 95 inches long and weighed 482 pounds. “It’s happened more than once up
there where people’s legs have been broken because of halibut,” he said. “I didn’t give a damn if it was a record or not, my point was to catch the fish.” McGuire’s haul outweighed the pre-
vious record, a 459-pound Pacific hal- ibut which was reeled in off the Alaska coast in 1996. But his prize did not meet International Game Fish Association world-record regulations because it was shot and harpooned prior to being brought aboard. McGuire, 76, said he was not con-
cerned with the world record. In years past, he caught an 832-pound sturgeon in the Columbia River—his largest
catch. “I’ve caught a lot of fish over the
years,” McGuire said. “There’s going to be bigger ones than I’ve caught and smaller ones than I’ve caught.”
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