Bass Boats

Yankees Scored Against the Seabass Before the Halos

23.02.76

One day before the Yankees and Angels squared off for a three game series at the Big A, New York pitchers David Robertson and Boon Logan, left fielder Bret Gardner and pitching coach Kevin Long took a day off from baseball. They decided a day's fishing off Catalina would be perfect. So on Thursday, several New York Yankees chartered the boat  Bongos II  with skipper Joe Berrian out of Newport Beach.

 Berrian left the mainland at 6:30 a.m. and pointed the bow of Bongos II towards the east end of Catalina Island. There has been some excellent white seabass fishing there and Berrian wanted to give the baseball starts a shot at their first seabass. 

As Bongos II neared Binnacle Rock, Captain Joe Berrian kept a close eye on the boats sonar. He started marking white seabass and decided it was time to anchor. The deckhand on board dropped the anchor hand over had to minimize any noise. White seabass are super sensitive to noise and will scatter when confronted with abrupt loud sounds. So the deckhand took great care to set the anchor quietly. 

Source: Patch.com

Plenty of changes for Austin Bass Club in its 50+ years of fishing

05.06.11

It probably takes some kind of altered state of mind to decide to form a bass club in 1960 ... before there were any bass clubs.

Remember, this was before "trophy" meant a bass over 10 pounds. It was before real bass boats, trolling motors, live wells and letting fish go.

Heck, it was seven years before Ray Scott had the brilliant idea to unite anglers through the Bass Anglers Sportsman Society, a move that forever transformed fishing in North America.

But two groups of hardcore anglers from Austin and Waco decided a couple of months apart in 1960 to establish a pair of clubs dedicated to bass fishing. Austin Bass Club was born that year. Club members held their 50th anniversary party in February.

Source: Austin American-Statesman

State Fish and Wildlife Columbia River region boat ramp and bank fish checks

23.02.79

Columbia River below Bonneville Dam -- Last week: 722 bank anglers caught 85 spring chinook, 33 steelhead and three shad, and released 32 spring chinook, three steelhead and one sturgeon; 76 boats with 178 anglers caught 19 spring chinook, 13 steelhead and two shad, and released three spring chinook and one steelhead; eight bank anglers caught no sturgeon; 10 boats with 29 anglers caught two sturgeon and released 26; 60 bank anglers caught 95 shad and released two; three boats with four anglers caught no shad.

Columbia River in The Dalles Pool -- Last week: 47 bank anglers released 40 sturgeon; nine boats with 21 anglers released 72 sturgeon; 118 bank anglers caught six spring chinook and released three; three boats with six anglers caught no spring chinook; eight boats with 18 anglers caught 108 walleye and released 24; three bank anglers caught two bass and released three; six boats with 11 anglers caught 15 bass and released 96.

Source: The Seattle Times