Recent content by Shawno

What ever happend to superfisherman Shawno. I'm still fishing a lot, but posting photos in Instagram under Shawnoaz

Barred Serrano

We've been catching barracuda more and more on sabiki rigs at the same old places that we catch bass and grunts. They show up on sonar as squiggly lines suspended in the water column. There are lots of them, they are invading.

We made it out fishing on March 9, 19, and 21 at about 25 to 30 miles out in 80 to 175 feet of water using live mackerel and barracuda for bait. The total for 3 days of fishing was 10 white sea bass from 30 to 50 pounds, a 30 pound yellowtail, and 16 grouper (gulf, leopard, pinto) from about 10...

I use #6 crosslock snaps (~150lb) with no swivel. I add a short piece of chafe tubing at the crimp crotch on my top shot, as that is always the weak link. I stopped using swivels. I don't think they are needed for most types of fishing I do. P-line and Berkley make great crosslock snaps. There...

Photos of the 3 big whites we caught last Friday.

I don't recommend squid. It works, but small fish will rob you. Try to catch live mackerel with sabiki rigs. We found macs last weekend at 10 miles out. If you don't have live macs, live baracuda or whole dead sardines are good too. I usually spend at least an hour searching for good bait. I...

No, I've never caught one without yellow spots. I'll add it to my bucket list!

Along with a bunch of yellowtail, we caught a nice sierra and a 29lb white seabass last Saturday.

We have found bonito, skipjack and yellowtail hanging out together in 200' of water.

Yellowfin Tuna

Black Skipjack?

Pacific Bonito?

Much respect to those who can catch big fish on 20lb line.