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38 • Sept. 26 - Oct. 9, 2014 • The Log Tips from the Bridge Question:


Has the recent weather patterns – tropical storms in the Pacific and very warm weather in Southern California – impacted fishing?


Fisherman Joe Sarmiento, founder of the blog socalsalty.com:


Southern California anglers have a lot of friends in Baja Mexico and our thoughts and prayers are with them as they deal with the terrible weather down below. That being said, the hurricanes affecting Baja have been a boon to Southern California anglers as these weather systems have pushed up a lot of warm water, bait fish, and the game fish that prey on them. Boats based as far north as Channel Islands Sportfishing in Oxnard are catching exotics right now!


Joe Sarmiento can be contacted on his website socalsalty.com


SD Report From page 37


released a bunch of small yellowtail and several skipjack. Hatanaka report- ed that their best stop was from an early morning kelp paddie that he found below the 209 Spot at 40 miles 296 degrees from Point Loma. I need to correct and apologize for a mistake I made in my last report when I reported about an offshore trip aboard Sea Star. I mixed up the number of anglers and the number of yellowtail caught. What I wrote was mistaken in saying: “On his most recent three-quar- ter day trip Capt. Joe Cacciola of Sea Star with Sea Star Sportfishing in Oceanside, found excellent kelp paddie yellowtail fishing and had 65 anglers catch 13 yellowtail and two dorado.” What should have been written was:“On his most recent three-quarter day trip Cacciola found excellent kelp paddie yellowtail fishing and had 13 anglers catch 65 yellowtail and two dorado.” Cacciola also reports very good cali- co bass fishing along the local coast along with a mix of bonito and sand bass. Ken Schilling had a hot day on the


striped marlin fishing on Sept. 20, while fishing out by the 302 Spot and reported two marlin releases. One of the marlin


2014 Cabo-Hatteras-Viking Challenge celebrates 12-year run


NEWPORT BEACH — Stan Miller Yachts, Cabo, Hatteras and Viking Yachts are pleased to announce that this year’s Annual Owners Tournament was another huge suc- cess. The tournament drew a total of 16 boats from all three brands rang- ing from 31 feet to 60 feet in length. The 2014 Southern California fish- ing season has been nothing short of stellar and the weather and condi- tions held consistent through the two-day tournament making owners and crew more than excited to com- pete for the largest tuna/albacore, dorado, yellowtail, sea bass and release Marlin tournament cate- gories. In addition Stan Miller Yachts had a San Diego check-in with for those who wanted to travel south – a move that paid off for Frank Giannola on Cabo 38 Flybridge 38 Special, who was able to load up with limits of yellowfin and bluefin tuna as well as yellowtail to capture the Top Boat award for the weekend. The rest of the competitors, fami-


ly, friends and many of the sponsors attended the Basin Marine location in Newport Harbor where the festivi- ties kicked off with a cocktail party and captain’s meeting hosted by Stan Miller Yachts. Lines-in and the tour-


nament began immediately after the check-in and dinner and while many stayed listening to the live music and enjoying the cocktails until the end, others headed out to get that first bite. Boats were widespread this year,


covering waters from the U.S./Mexico border up north to the Channel Islands and out to the off- shore banks. Many teams ventured south toward the tuna grounds were greeted with calm sea conditions and excellent tuna, yellowtail and dorado fishing in the bird schools and kelp paddies. Up the ridge toward the East end


of Catalina, a handful of boats scat- tered throughout toward the 277 where Hatteras 54, Brainwave, was able to get on the board with the first marlin release of the weekend and good scores of quality dorado. Up toward the West End of Catalina the rest of the fleet worked the area hard to hopefully get lucky on one of the handful of marlin that had been sighted and caught the week prior to the event. While many fish were seen and boats had good chances for Hatteras 60, Reel Time, and Cabo 35, Blue Chip, the efforts paid off and they were treated with two fish each


awarding them the first and second place in the Marlin Release Division. The festivities continued Sunday evening where a dinner and cocktail party wrapped up the events and awards and prizes were given out. Trophies were awarded in all cate- gories except Sea Bass this year – a first in many years past. Following awards and dinner raffle prizes were given out to all attendees and no one went home empty handed. The 12th annual Stan Miller Yachts


- Cabo/Hatteras/Viking Challenge was a great success and provided owners, families and guests some incredible Southern California sport fishing. Next year’s tournament dates will be announced soon with the possibil- ity of moving the event to the first weeks of September – taking advan- tage of the warmer water and statisti- cally better fishing. In addition, Stan Miller Yachts will be making some exciting changes to the tournament that will be announced in the upcom- ing months. For more information, contact Nikki Selter, Stan Miller Yachts (619) 224-1510 or e-mail Nikki@stanmiller.com or Caprice Baxendell at (562) 598-9433 or Caprice@stanmiller.com.


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was caught on a mackerel and the other was caught on a jig. One of the marlin was caught by the high spot at the 302 Spot and the other was caught while fishing 4.5 miles 190 degrees from the 302 Spot.


One of the first blue marlin hookups of the season was aboard Reel Nice and Easy with Captain Clayton Dobbs. The fish was ultimately lost at gaff after a 5.5-hour battle but Dobbs said they would have qualified for a clean release of the fish had they intended to release it as they had the leader in hand when it was lost due to the gaff hitting the leader. He also mentioned that they had the wind on leader onto the reel four times during the course of the battle before the fish was lost. I hope you get out there as often as possible and take advantage of the tremendous fishing season we are hav- ing. Keep on fishing and I hope to see you out on the water!


Bob Vanian is the voice, writer and researcher of the San Diego-based inter- net fish report service called 976-Bite which can be found at www.976bite.com. Vanian also provides anglers with a personal fish report serv- ice over the telephone at (619) 226- 8218. He always welcomes your fish reports at that same phone number or at bob976bite@aol.com.


Results for 2014:


Top Boat Winner: 38 Special – 38’ Cabo FB 2009 Owner: Frank Giannola


Yellowtail: 1st Place: Dialed Inn; 61’ Viking 2004, 16.19 lbs, Rod 2nd Place: El Patrol, 35’ Cabo Ex 2005, 7.53 lbs, Riley Binnquist 3rd Place: 38 Special, 38’ Cabo FB 2009, 6lbs, Kevin Bohannon


Dorado: 1st Place: Brainwave, 54’ Hatteras SF 2003, 24.2 lbs, Josh Brain 2nd Place: Oh Joy, 40’ Cabo FB 2004, 17.7 lbs, Chris Brown 3rd Place: Dialed Inn, 61’ Viking SF 2004, 16.33 lbs, Brent Peterson


Tuna: 1st Place: 38 Special, 38’ Cabo FB 2009, 21.4 lbs, Mark Levan 2nd Place: Pez Loco, 35’ Cabo FB 1999, 20.7lbs, Leslie Barth 3rd Place: Bad Debt, 61’ Viking SF 2000, 20.2 lbs, Stephen Scully


Marlin Release: 1st Place: Reel Time, 60’ Hatteras SF 2009, two Marlin, Dave King & Chris Haug 2nd Place: Blue Chip, 35’ Cabo FB 2001, two Marlin, Tracy Merrill & Paul Arentsen 3rd Place: Brainwave, 54’ Hatteras SF 2003, one Marlin, Greg Beavers


Top Lady Angler: Pez Loco, 35’ Cabo FB 1999, Leslie Barth


Top Junior Angler: Brainwave, 54’ Hatteras SF 2003, Josh Brain (6 years old)


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