Barcelona 6/24 Report

I don't see any postings on here really but here is how we did in case it's helpful to someone.

Arrived at the launch at 9 and the parking lot was almost full. Wind forecast was accurate and by 11:00 it was about 10 mph out of the west. We had 1-2 footers mostly with an occasional 3.

Didn't see many boats so I assume the few that weren't straight North all went West. We fished the same area and depth of water as the last trip. Fish were in 57-62 fow for us. Water temp 67.5 degrees. I ran the same program with bandits and 5 oz. Snapweights off the Offshore boards. I had 2 guys with me so we ran 8 rods. Like last time they wanted the baits with chrome and flash. The two best were a chrome perch pattern with an orange belly and a mostly chrome bait with a purple head and some colored dots. There were fish up high at 14-20 feet but they never hit. Got all the fish between 30 and 50 feet down. Speed was 2.0-2.3. A beautiful day and we got our 3 man limit in about 2.5 hours.

I am sure many others got their limits too because when we returned the parking lot was only about 1/4 full. Good luck to all.

Thanks for the report going to Barcelona in the morning will report back

Hey Bull. Nice to see your post. We got a good grade of fish for filleting and of course eating. All in the 18-23" range. Good luck to you tomorrow!

Had a great trip Friday 3 man limit in about 2 hours, not many boats 2 to 4 foot waves made it tough to fish but a great day, ran bandits and spoons they hit about everything

Great job and congrats! Thanks for sharing and continued good luck to ya!

Fished Barcelona Saturday and Sunday. Both days were less than 1 ft waves and fished in the same general area. Saturday fished with a couple newer people, 60-70 FOW, fire tiger worm burner was the hottest on a black dipsy set at 130 ft back so about 40 ft down, but seemed like everything had hits. Got 3 person limit in 2 hours.

Sunday the wife wanted to go so went back out to the same area and sort of followed the same track. I was setting rods and she was driving so got off the line from Saturday a bit. Same setups but blue chatterstick on a downrigger set at 37 ft was hot, not as many on the fire tiger worm burner but got a few on it. Blue bay rat was also good. Took 1.5 hours to get 11 (I miss counted and we even threw back a couple clearing lines thinking we had 12, doh).

Both days stopped at hanover launch to clean fish and many getting limits there as well in the 70-80 fow. I'll go out of there next time as its a half hour less driving, went to Barcelona Sunday as i knew where the fish were and we didnt have a lot of time.

Most setups were 30-40 ft down in 70 or so FOW.

Sounds like a couple great days! Very nice info. I probably won't get back out for a while as there is some family stuff coming up. I enjoy seeing others successes and will post again after I can go. Good work Sir.