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ALBACORE |
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| For 3 years we regularly made the 150 mile drive from north San Fernando Valley to Harbor Island. We still went on the "Searcher" charters and, while some of the trips produced limited catches, every so often we hit it big. One day we even hit the "hump" (100 fish and I managed to take 10 that day. Here is a picture of Jan Flamer lounging on one of our better catches with Carolyn standing in the background. |
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One of our regulars on the Albacore trips was an old timer, Bud Perkins,
a Lederle Drug Salesman. Here is a picture of a nice day for Bud,
Carolyn and myself - about 35 fish for the day. That's Bud's daughter
who slept along for the trip:
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Other "regulars" on those trips were Sanbo Skaguchi, Bob Solinski, Yoshi Nagagawa, Geoff Halpern, etc. We often did well returning with 30-40 fish per trip. Our greatest trip was to come on the new K-D (more, much more to follow) with Bud, Sanbo, Jan Flamer and Joan Freeman (now Mrs. Bruce Kessler) with 112 fish. We had a night bite and got about 13 fish, trolled for about 10 minutes more, got bit and never moved the rest of the day ending up with 88 Albies and 24 Skippies. I have no idea where we put all those fish on that 32' boat. Those were the days when there was a truck at Cortez, we traded for cases of cans and often got a slip used to get payment for the fish. Helped pay the fuel bills. And those were the days of the lift poles - talk about putting fish on board in a hurry. And, of course, before the (ugh) Mexican limits. |
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January 2, 2002 - First Albacore of the year |
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