September Newsletter

[Oceanside Anglers Club]

SEPTEMBER NEWSLETTER

What a weird year! This year will definitely be remembered in history
as one of the strangest years that most of us can remember. At the
start of the year we were told that El Nino is coming and most of us
were thinking Dorado and Tuna in local waters in late June or early
July. As of today the Dorado have not made much of a showing, even
down in Mexican waters. The first week of September had the tuna
finally show up close, (meaning 70 miles from Oceanside). I thought
someone in our club would catch the first marlin of the year on July
4th; finally the first Marlin for the club was caught by Reel Nice &
Easy on 9/20/10. There has been some good news this year like the
White Sea Bass has been great, we had a record catch of Halibut during
our Halibut Tournament. Who knows what is coming in the next few
months? I just read in the WON news that a Wahoo was caught off the
Long Beach Jetty? Maybe, if the strange things continue, Oceanside
Anglers will hold a Wahoo tournament in November and a Black and Blue
Marlin Tournament in December. Ha! You never know what is going to
happen for the rest of the year.

Our last Tournament was our marlin tournament and because of the lack
and distance of any marlin our club decided to open the tournament up
to any pelagic fish. Also tournament boats had an option for the first
time to launch out of San Diego. This year’s winners were Reel Nice &
Easy with a 26.4lb Albacore, Little Luck with a 19.8lb Bluefin Tuna
and Haywood with a 19.4lb Bluefin Tuna.

As I write this the Catalina Marlin Tournaments are being held, not in
Catalina as past years but in San Diego to be closer to where Marlin
have been spotted. One of our members, Reel nice & Easy, earned first
place last year in the Catalina Classic. We were hoping they would
have a repeat this year. They were in the lead after day one of the
two day event. I will let Captain Clayton tell you the rest of the
story on how they ended up for the second day and how they did at our
next meeting.

I don’t have a speaker scheduled for our next meeting, but we do have
several topics to cover. Captain Clay and Ken will give you their
story on the Marlin fishing during the Catalina Classic. Also we will
talk about Lobster fishing. Don’t forget that lobster season starts
early Saturday morning at 12:01 AM. You will need your lobster report
card with your fishing license to be legal. Those of you who don’t go
after lobster during the season are really missing out. Its fun, close
by, inexpensive, it will test your captain skills, and you get to
enjoy some fine eating when you succeed. Also I will share with you
some interesting things you can do with your lobster after you eat
them. You will have to come to the meeting to get more info.

Our next tournament on October 9th is our annual biggest fish
tournament. This is a member only tournament. Once again we payout
100% of entries and add $250 club money to the winners. Please plan on
fishing our last tournament of the year.

Send your e-mails with comments, suggestions, complaints and/or
praises, to Oceansidea...@yahoo.com. We like the feedback and
it helps us steer this club in the direction the members want to go.

Our next meeting is again the first Tuesday of the month, October
5th.

Until then,
Rick Windbigler
President
OAC