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warm weather beans…
We still have a few fishing willing to play locally if you put the time in to torture yourselves…LOL Here’s a few fine examples from this past weekend.
Par Avion’s lead guitarist, Bernard Yin on a tear this year with another quality fish to hand.
A nice fish landed by “Bonefish” Bobby Izuda visiting our local beaches from Hawaii. WTG dude…
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the beans are still chewing…
Bobby Izuda from Hawaii lands his first corbina on a grey merkin which he tied for the first time the night before. WTG dude!
Ken Harata with his second fair-caught corbina this season. WTG Ken!
Q walking a fish up the beach for a safe landing. Photo by Jim Solomon.
Its been an uncanny late season push by our local corbina this year (is it global warming? LOL) as the fish still seem to want to eat flies. It’s weird, this is the time of year I usually tell anglers not to get discouraged as the fish usually get lock jaw late in the season after gorging on sand crabs for weeks, not the case this year… then again we have bluefin tuna off the east end of Catalina, its nuts. I hope we get one more good tide cycle, the fish are fat and plentiful! Great to see some new faces on the beach, giving this crazy game a try. tight lines – Al Q
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Pic of the day…
Put the new Hatch reel to work this morning. Photo by Al Quattrocchi
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friday frijoles…
fair-hooked in the corner.
Q gets an eat!
Michael Schweit, past SWCFF president with his first faired corbina. WTG!
Michael practicing his sight casting by snagging a bird with a merkin.
oh yeah!
photo by Ken Harada
After two years and hundreds of casts, our friend, Ken Harada finally got to slide a fair-caught corbina up on the beach this Sunday. WTG Ken! His fish was caught on a tandem two-fly setup and the corbina ate the trailing razzler. I have a Corbina Patrol sticker for you the next time i see ya, you earned it pal!
pic of the day…
photo courtesy of Larry Acord.
There are still a lot of nice fish around. Me and my friend Jim farmed a few this morning, but they ate the fly and were easily cast to and sight-cast as these fish worked along the beach. The upcoming negative weekend tides starting on Sunday morning should get them going early in the am. If you haven’t put a corbina on your tick list, I would get out there sooner than later as the summer window will slowly begin to close as we approach the fall.
Fellow angler and good pal, Larry Acord showing us how it’s done this morning by sight casting to and landing this beautiful early morning corbina. We were fishing a new area that has been holding some big fish. This fish was tailing in shallow water when Larry made a nice cast and watched her chase down his fly (razzler) He set up on her and let her make a long run. After adjusting his drag and taking his time she was slid up on the beach. She was revived and released to taunt other corbina anglers in the future, like me! LOL… It’s been great fun fishing with my friends and watching them land corbina, which are tough fish to fool on flies….. Nice one Larry!
this is the reason to buy raffle tickets at the double haul ball…
Photo by John Whitaker
Well, two of our local South Bay anglers, John Whitaker and Don Bell were the recipients of a guided trip donated by my good buddy Hogan Brown from this past year’s Double Hall Ball. The boys averaged 20-30 stripers a day. Don Bell landed this 24 pound beauty on a olive/yellow jig hook-style Clouser minnow. All the more reason to come and buy some raffle tickets next year. All the proceeds from last years DHB raffle went to support a great organization entitled: CastHope.org
Pic of the day!
We added a new inductee to the prestigious Corbina Patrol club this morning. I was an honor to get my daughter her first of two Corbina landed on a sand crab/spinning combo. Photo by Janet Chang Quattrocchi (mom)
Quinn gets a double!
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recent logo work…
Ken River Fly Shop & Guy Jeans School of Flyfishing Logos. Creative direction and design courtesy of Al Quattrocchi. ©2017 Tornado Creative. All rights reserved.
Fremont Deli logo. Creative direction and design courtesy of Al Quattrocchi. ©2017 Tornado Creative. All rights reserved.
I am taking over Kernville! Not quite. LOL. What an honor to be able to design a bunch of cool logos for my pal, Guy Jeans and his new neighbor, Melissa Campbell who just recently opened a deli entitled Fremont Deli. She wanted her logo to resemble the old National Parks vintage posters of old, so that’s what i delivered. Now when I visit my buddy Guy’s fly shop, there’s a fun place to grab lunch and get fly materials. Please drop in and support them if you are in the neighborhood. Cheers – Al Q
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