Went out and Rambled around some... Fishing

Hey there, It was just so good to spend some time on the water.

We went out on Saturday (yesterday) and did a little fishing. We tried a new rock near shore and then some reef areas. Did hook a little hungry calico on light line. Not much happening inshore.

So we moved out to deeper water and got to load up on rock fish at the short banks. They make good fish-taco meat. Gary got the big fish award. Dennis who had good luck inshore was challenged out in the deeper water.

It was the best guy time I have had had since marlin fishing. It turned out I was with the same guys who were my marlin team. We had a really nice relaxing time. All three of us.


Fish Wish Granted. Good day on the water. Not bad on the catching. Even if the water in the bay has turned over and gotten colder.

Keith

slaving for my fishing club.

Just finished the Full Scoop newsletter.

Slaved on it from 6 pm to now. 11 PM.

Learned new software. That ate up some of the time.
Had to crop all the photos in one program and move them over.
Then had to type up a lot of content. Luckily I ran out of room.

Therefore I got to stop typing. Yeah.

Emailed out a 4MB pdf file to the anglers I know.

Now just need to burn it to a disk and find a printer to do the job.

Keith

Today’s Ares 1-X rocket from Cape Canaveral

From a facebook post… about today’s Ares 1-X rocket from Cape Canaveral

You may like this... Planetes
http://www.mangafox.com/manga/planetes/c001/
When you have time to read for entertainment.


The Space Program needs a real destination. I like Mars....

To really go long distances the invention needed is a constant boost engine. Fire in one direction half way (accelerate) and fire in opposite direction (decelerate) the second half of the trip. Then the time and distance and weight of the Life Support needed can be worked out.

Need that next invention. Not a solar sail. A constant boost. Then we can go anywhere.

IMHO Keith


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Attended the United Anglers Dinner

Trish and I attended the UA Dinner with a few Marina Del Rey Anglers friends.

It was good. A friend, Paul Simon, was honored with a perpetual award to be named after him to be aworded to the top conservation volunteer each year.

The raffle was pretty good. I got lucky and won two very cool items. A nice Calcutta reel (I'll use it for light line) and a new Promar lobster net. Hoot!

Now I'm ready to get back to Lobster hoop netting and Get Some!

Keith L.

Fathers and Sons fishing

There are some Bonita in the bay. And I heard that there is no Top Youth winner yet in the club fishing awards yet. So I called a fellow member and asked him if he wants to take his son out with Thomas and I. To see if we can get the boys onto some worthy fish.

We went out on Jon's boat Playspace. His son Buck and my son Thomas are pals so they were game. We trolled up a few small Bonita but for all our efforts on the troll and drift fishing live baits we did not get any fish worthy of a weight slip. I saved the fish as they will make good Lobster Hoop Net baits for later.

Not to worry. We had fun! That is the point of going fishing and boating.

In the end a very good father and son fishing trip.

Keith L. <"><

Lobster season is open and

Why, oh Why am I not going out Hoop Netting! See what the other guys are getting!

Well there was the kids and the dinner party (Fiesta) last night and my toe that was hurting bad and there were the many other things I had to deal with. i.e. Life.

My toe is now feeling better and was not a bad Staph Infection as was the worry. May not have been a broken toe as it is doing much better now. The medication seems to be helping. Had a nice visit on Friday with the local walk in urgent care place in MDR. My contribution to the health care debate is now going to be more informed.

With the little bit of rains that just came through I wonder, would need to put the Lobster Hoop Nets in deeper water? Or would the lobsters ignore the fresh water and go up on the beach for the sand crabs anyway?

What to do? And when to do it? That is the lobster fishing question.

MDRA appreciation party

A special Thank You party was held on Sunday evening for those who volunteered to be mentors in the Youth Fishing Program.

Jeffery, my fishing buddy, set up the trips and got groups arranged so that we ended up with 28 trips on 14 days with a load ranging from 28 to 45 kids per trip.

And the Mentors spent their time teaching them. Very often One on One with the child. The supervising staff from the organization that brought them would sit and watch the scenery. A special Shout out to Terri who organized al the mentors for the past couple of years. You go Girl! (she is going to Africa for a big safari vacation and we need a replacement. hint hint)

It was fun. It takes dedication. It is rewording.

Special efforts by Richard Summers got this dinner party going. Some MDRA members volunteered the Fish and Jerry N of course did the cooking. Most of the mentors got to mix and mingle and bring out our spouses for a bit of social time. Very cool.

It is nice stuff. The reward to those who give is the Smile.

On the tables were many of the letters of thank you's from the kids.



I like to go on the Blind kids trip and the Special Needs trip especially as those kids rarely get this type of experience and they appreciate it so much.

Learn more at www.MDRAnglers.com

Fished in La Paz Gold Cup

Had a fabulous time fishing in the La Paz Gold Cup.

More photos are on Webshots.



2009-09-27 LaPaz Gold Cup

The trip was more fun than these photos show. This is because there are no photos of the two marlin that came up to play. We were too busy to take photos at those moments.

Sincerely Keith L
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BTW some do not want you to know how good this is as a vacation destination.

Marlin Trip - Number Two

Marlin fishing trip to get in on the local hot bite... One More Time.

We were out there off of Church Rock on Friday. No hook up in that area. Plenty of hook-ups for those fishing in the Pescadores fishing tournament. Ask about their silly radio chatter sometime. Wild goofy guys and gals in that "Pesky" group.

Jeffery M. and David F. and I snuck out late on Thursday and anchored in Cat Harbor to be close to the hot marlin spot off of Catalina Island at first lite. It was a very foggy morning as we came out of Cat and moved to the hot marlin area beside the island in an area near Church Rock. It did not pan out for us after much trolling and watching the water temps.

When we moved over to Avalon Bank and to the Shipping Lanes. We did have a good hook up and a basic Fire Drill / Cluster F~#& situation when the first man into the cockpit forgot all that he was supposed to do then we had to have a swimmer cut off a lure from the prop. All the while the fish was taking line… Now that I am back on shore it is a bit more funny. ;-)

Therefore: (Too much line out) + ( Monster big head shake side to side ) + (Too much slack due to my reversing faster than the angler could retrieve) = Lost fish.

Lessons learned: Retrieve the lures with boat in one engine Fwd so that we do not put out as much line on the fish being played. Do not reverse to fight fish until ALL Lures are INSIDE THE BOAT. Coach the Newbie’s more than once and practice. Ask them if they recall what was told to them. Jeffery acted like a newbie at the moment of truth. But he rectified his problem by boldly jumping in with a knife and getting the prop free. Lost the lure and chock it up to experience.

My favorite excitement moment was with two marlin up in the lures right behind the boat. Hot! The Ramblin’ can raise fish!

Next time...

B-Day Golf with Carl

I called my brother and suggested that he be nice to himself as it is his birthday. One of the ways to be nice to himself for example would be to go play some golf. I offered to throw myself on that grenade and to accompany him, if needed, for 9 holes etc.

He did find the time (make the time) and asked me to meet him at his club and play. We did a full round of 19 holes of golf. It was good just to be with Carl. Not a stressful thing about it. The score was the score and no head games or betting took place at all. Just a long afternoon on the green grass and good company.

We did talk for a moment about our Dad and that was good.

Love my brother. Happy Birthday to you Carl.

Tight Lines,

Keith -<"><