This a a compilation of several "Fishing with Phil" twilight trips on board the Enterprise. Looks like great family fun with fathers and mothers catching with sons and daughters.
Sand bass fishing was excellent at times in August so you'll see lots of action. In addition, there are some great tips to help make you a better angler.
The atmosphere on the "Fishing with Phil" Trips is fun and festive.
If you have never been fishing before, these are the perfect trips for you as we are there to help.
If you are an excellent angler like so many of the people you will see in this video, you can come out and kick some butt, or bass or whatever happens to be biting.
You can also join Phil on a trip to Baja as he has been traveling there for over 50 years. He knows all the best places to fish, dine, and have fun south of the border too.
Just remember, if you want to have a great fishing trip, go "Fishing with Phil" sometime soon. You cn reach Phil at 424 237 0250 or [email protected] .
Hope to see you on the water really soon.
PHIL FRIEDMAN OUTDOORS Veteran's Day Weekend Trip Rosarito Beach Hotel November 8-11
The Wine Country, Lobster Dinners, The Beach, Fishing, Golf, Shopping & mucho mas! We are finishing up the details on this great trip and will e-mail you as soon as we have it finalized.
We are based at the beautiful Rosarito Beach Hotel and looking for some fishy things to do. We head off for a look at the Ensenada Fish Market, check out the Popotla Fish Camp and head out with Captain Tony ([email protected]) and Rosy Torres to Todos Santos Island off Ensenada for a days fishing.
Danny Herrera and Patrick Friedman are also on board for all the fun as they make a trip to Baja before they head back to school.
As usual, Phil Friedman Outdoors stays at the Rosarito Beach Hotel (www.RosaritoBeachHotel.com).
Great seafood at La Guerita Restaurant in Rosarito Beach.
PHIL FRIEDMAN OUTDOORS Veteran's Day Weekend Trip Rosarito Beach Hotel November 8-11
The Wine Country, Lobster Dinners, The Beach, Fishing, Golf, Shopping & mucho mas! We are finishing up the details on this great trip and will e-mail you as soon as we have it finalized.
Mark Rayor from Jen Wren Sportfishing joins us from Baja's East Cape with some fabulous fishing adventures. Humboldt squid have moved in and some have some giant yellowfin tuna. Rayor has that and more for you on today's show.
Find out the latest from La Paz and Tailhunter International with our Jonathan and Jill Roldan. Some great fishing and lots more in the capital of Baja California Sur are part of today's show.
Great surf fishing action with Wesly form Cabo San Lucas as he has been on 40-50 pound roosterfish from some of Cabo's pristine beaches. In fact, you hear about a recent catch of a 72 pound rooster that had the angler in a serious 45 minute battle.
Hear about a great trip to Todos Santos Island off Ensenada with Tony Lozano and Rosy Torres. Lots of rockfish, calico bass and mucho fun.
Ensenada updates, some great places to eat and enjoy south of the border.
Find out about what 18 year old Danny Herrera from Rolling Hills was told about traveling to Baja and what he found to be the reality.
Great times and some fabulous bargains await you at the Rosarito Beach Hotel. PHIL FRIEDMAN OUTDOORS is headed south to the Rosarito Beach Hotel for Veterans Day Weekend. Make sure you send Phil an e-mail so he can send you all the details. [email protected]
PHOTO: Jen Wren Sportfishing
PHIL FRIEDMAN OUTDOORS Veteran's Day Weekend Trip Rosarito Beach Hotel November 8-11
The Wine Country, Lobster Dinners, The Beach, Fishing, Golf, Shopping & mucho mas! We are finishing up the details on this great trip and will e-mail you as soon as we have it finalized.
PHIL FRIEDMAN OUTDOORS RADIO THE SURF FISHING SHOW
Eddie Leland with the hot Huntington Beach bite, Rudy Miranda with the float tube report, Big Fish Bait & Tackle Update, giant roosters and huge cubera snappers in the surf, halibut, sharks and lots more.
You'll learn where they are biting and how you can catch more and bigger fish today.
PLUS Breaking News and our next trip to Rosarito Beach.
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From
casual conversations over some chilled refreshments, International Game Fish
Association (IGFA) records are set … and then broken.
In
1991 – about three years after introducing the Abel Reel – Steve Abel had an
idea about chartering a long range boat out of San Diego, restricting it to
fly-fishing only, inviting a select group of top-gun saltwater flyrodders, and
setting some records while having some fun.
Following preliminary conversations and then negotiations with San
Diego’s Frank LoPreste, Abel chartered the 116-foot Royal Polaris, and a groundbreaking saltwater fly-fishing adventure
to Baja Mexico’s Alejo Rocks was off and running.
They
caught yellowfin tuna; they caught dorado, wahoo, yellowtail, and skipjack by
the dozen. But mostly they caught the
imagination of saltwater flyfishers everywhere who read about the trip or saw
any number of videos of the 10 day adventure.
While
many fly-fishers lament the need to drive to Mammoth or the Redding area to
cast a long rod, others came to the realization that one of the largest fishin’
holes in the world is a stone’s throw from most Southern California
neighborhoods – the Pacific! With Abel’s
trip as a model, others refined it to one or two day jaunts to the Channel
Islands for calicos, Catalina, yellowtail at the Coronado Islands, or Todos
Santos Island off Ensenada. Flyrodders
refined their skills and learned how to dance around each other when there were
multiple hook-ups. And there definitely
were multiple hook-ups!
A
bigger issue was finding enough fly-fishers to fill an entire charter. It became more difficult as the novelty wore
off and boat costs went up along with the price of fuel.
The
answer? Hook up with a knowledgeable captain
willing to adjust his fishing techniques to the unthinkable … accommodating
saltwater flyfishing and conventional anglers on the same trip. The conventional angler, with his hooked fish,
can keep the school around the boat long enough for the flyrodders to cast.
Originally,
Dave Shaffer (Fishermen's Spot, Van Nuys) conceived the mixed-trip-method in
1994; Michael Schweit, President of the Southwest Council of the Federation of
Flyfishers, assumed the organizing role in 2000.
There have been many notable catches
on these trips over the years, but trip regular Colin Waters, Santa Susana,
Calif., achieved the ultimate, setting a new International Game Fish
Association World Record on 16-pound tippet for a 43.2-pound Pacific Albacore
in 2003.
It was quite an accomplishment considering
he had to maintain his balance in heavy seas with 10-foot swells and 22 knots
of wind while sandwiched in-between anglers sporting short tuna sticks. Using a 30-pound fluorocarbon shock tippet
and 500 grain seamless shooting head on a Tibor Gulfstream reel with a
14-weight rod, Colin managed to put his 4-inch blue-back Baby Angel fly in
front of an albacore on the stern after the conventional trolling lines hooked
a fish. A few strips and he came tight to what would become his fish of a
lifetime! Wet, cold and concerned
that something would go wrong, Colin hung in there and brought the “fatty” to
gaff 15 minutes later. That record still remains after 10 years.
Then, on Aug. 1, 2013. Colin Waters
did it again!
He wrote, “I caught a 16-pound Pacific
bluefin, which I have submitted to IGFA as a potential World Record on a Fly
Rod in the 10 Kilo Tippet category.
“Around 9 a.m. on our second day out
aboard the Apollo, we stopped on a “good looking” sonar mark that after a
while developed into a slow “pick”
for the bait guys. Half an hour or so later, I was doing the
deep-soak with the wind in my face, as I had been doing for two days, every
chance I could. I was about to start a retrieve, fly about 100 feet out,
when the line got heavy. I thought I’d tangled with a bait guy for a
second, but then the fish took off. Fight lasted about 10 minutes. It
was a little guy, but the first recorded Pacific bluefin on the fly.”
A
member of the Southwest Council Federation of Fly Fishers as well as his local
club, Waters tied a fly that closely imitated what the tuna were feeding on, a smallish
dark purple fish, species unknown. “So I
designed a fly in an attempt to match the hatch,” he grinning.
Schweit,
president of the SWC-FFF who happened to be on the record-setting trip, praised
Waters’ skill both in landing the bluefin on light tippet, and in hand-tying
the fly that did the job. “A fly tied
for about 50 cents of material sure beats those $5.95 lures,” he said.
Thanks to Steve’s Abel’s nearly
25-year old idea, saltwater flyrod trips are now being booked by fly shops from
San Diego to Santa Barbara. Or contact
Schweit at (818) 757-3474; [email protected].
PHIL FRIEDMAN OUTDOORS Veteran's Day Weekend Trip Rosarito Beach Hotel November 8-11
The Wine Country, Lobster Dinners, The Beach, Fishing, Golf, Shopping & mucho mas! We are finishing up the details on this great trip and will e-mail you as soon as we have it finalized.
Patrick Friedman from Torrance couldn’t wait to head back
down to Baja but this time, the 18 year old from Torrance wanted to share the
experience with some friends.
So he went from friend to friend, talked with
their parents and heard the same basic response. “Too dangerous.”
When he asked the last time the parents had been to Baja
there was another basic response. Either it had been many years or they had
never been.
Friedman was becoming more and more frustrated as he had been to
Baja over 30 times over the years including round trip drives to Cabo San Lucas
with only great memories and wonderful times.
Finally, Danny Herrera from Rolling Hills Estates and
former Bishop Montgomery High School fellow student got the green light to go.
“I have to admit that I was a little nervous about going,” said Herrera.
“Everyone kept telling me how dangerous it was going to be; it was like we were
going to cross the border and be attacked right away.”
It didn’t take long until Herrera got a different
perspective about what Baja is really all about. “It was the exact opposite of
what everyone had told me,” said Herrera. “It was so peaceful, so fun and we
met so many great people there."
The two longtime friends never stopped doing things. They
fished Todos Santos Island off Ensenada and caught copious amounts of rockfish
along with some fat calico bass. They went to the Pueblo Amigo Hotel Casino in
Tijuana where they played slot machines. They visited the fish camp at Popotla
where they saw pangeros return from the sea with their catch and met some
colorful fishermen. They checked out another Baja gem; Playa Saldamando which is located 8 miles north of Ensenada. There they saw a family with several small children enjoying a peaceful day on a secluded, pristine beach.
They made friends with the workers at the Rosarito Beach
Hotel, met the head of the Girls and Boys Club Rosy Torres. Rosy, as always
talked about her goal to give the kids of Rosarito Beach a great education,
make sure they were all bilingual, and make sure they were decent, courteous,
hardworking citizens.
There was also so many great meals. Fish, shrimp and
carne asado tacos. Carnitas, ribeye steak and eggs for $7, and some great
seafood. And yes, they spent some time blowing off fireworks one night on the
beach.
Where were all the bad people? Herrera started to realize
that there were an awful lot of great people who lived on the other side of the
border and there was so much to see and to do. “I learned that you have to
think for yourself sometimes,” said Herrera. “If I would have listened to all
those people who haven’t even been to Baja, I would have missed a great
experience. I learned so much on this trip and I want to learn Spanish more
than ever.”
Of all the great things that the boys got to experience,
perhaps the trip to the Casa Estrella all girls orphanage made the biggest
impression on them. Thanks to Megan Gomez from Rancho Palos Verdes, the
boys took new soccer jerseys to each one of the girls followed by a spirited
game of futbol. In fact, it got rather intense for the gol de oro.
On the way home, I overheard the boys talking about their
great Baja experience. “I never really ever thought of adopting a kid before
but after seeing those girls at the orphanage, I think I might want to do
that,” said Friedman.
“I know exactly what you mean,” said Herrera. “Me too.”
PHIL FRIEDMAN OUTDOORS Veteran's Day Weekend Trip Rosarito Beach Hotel November 8-11
The Wine Country, Lobster Dinners, The Beach, Fishing, Golf, Shopping & mucho mas! We are finishing up the details on this great trip and will e-mail you as soon as we have it finalized.
