Checkers and Pelicans on the Western Pride Loking,..

Got invited by my buddy Jay to come and join him and his son Conner on a half day trip out of Daveys Locker on the Western Pride. It would be both their first cattle boat trip and wanted me to help them out, I was very happy to do so,.. We got to the landing at 8am, Jay got the tickets and on board we went...todays moo trip count: 59 cows! Wow...well...I've been through worst LOL As you can see in this months issue of PCS! Luckily no babies or sea sick passengers on this trip. Everyone was having a good time,..
Let me tell you something about this boat...They run a tight ship! Very clean, crew is well mannered, Captain put us on some good spots and people were catching some nice bass! Too bad no one was releasing them! Oh well, every calico I caught went straight back to the drink. Conner had the hot stick of the day, he was nailing some feisty cudas! All shorts but for that kid he was having fun catching them,..
Now the only problem we were having on the boat was Pelicans! Damn birds were all over us, every live chovie we tossed in the water, the giant rats were diving after! Lots of them were hooked! I caught about five! LOL of course all released! Surprised the sea lions weren't all over us, once your bait got pass the birds there was a good chance on catching a nice calico! saw some nice fat ones caught, i tried tossing the plastics but wasn't getting any love! All they wanted were chovies, thank God the bait barged hooked up some nice ones!
Thanks Jay for this moo trip! Hope you guys had a good time! Next time we'll hit up LBSF and jump on the Native Sun for a twilight trip,.. Hope you all like the pics! Peace,..

The Western Pride,..

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Not bad,..

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Conner on his first Cuda,..

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Kid was on fire,..

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father and son pic,..

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I got some action here and there,..

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Checkers,..

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if only they tasted like Turkeys,..

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Cool guys pic,..

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DaFuq?

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Sweet report Loki

Very Cool Very Cool Looks like you guys had a great day
its a good boat to going out on I went last month and going again next weekend wish I could take off during the week to go PLAY must be NICE

Leakytube wrote:Very Cool Very Cool Looks like you guys had a great day
its a good boat to going out on I went last month and going again next weekend wish I could take off during the week to go PLAY must be NICE

Great day.. but, it was my first "cattle boat", so I don't know any different! I thought it was fine, but I can not imagine how it would have been with a full capacity of 90 people!!

I have some video of my in up to my elbows, trying to make a pelican vomit after it swallowed my hook and sinker. Ewwww....

LT.. yeah, I am usually off Wednesday afternoons anyways, and this morning I came down with a mysterious 12-hour cold.. cough, cough, ehhh.. achoo..

Great report and pics!

n2deepfsw wrote:Great report and pics!

X2 Awesome

Great post and pics, the like fun was had by all! Thanks for sharing.
It's awesome to see you passing this sport onto the young fellow!

Are the pelicans always that thick? I think the ones here in Oz are better trained, they don't follow the hire boats like that!
All we have to contend with are couta biting your catch in half as it's reeled in.
Looks like you had a great time,seemed fairly calm, nice hire boat too.

You have kepted a bird or 2. It's just like chicken lol.
Great pix and report like always. Let me know when you do the twilight trip, I'll try make that one

very cool of you lok to help a brother out like that and jay to be taking your son and giving him that great memory of fish with dad on a boat and catch fish will stick with him forever great time for you,family and friends great report

thats a lot of birds wtg on the fishin