Calico Hunter Charters

05/19/2024

Santa Cruz Island 5/18/24.
Hey Gang hit the big island today with my two guests and had really fun bass fishing in tight with a bonus keeper halibut, once again the Big Hammers were getting it done especially the 5.25in model in critter colors, they did not want the smaller baits today! Cappy

03/17/2024

Santa Cruz Island 3/
16/24.
Hey Gang been mostly fish the coast as of late for fair bass fishing, today I had Justin out and we had a pretty fun day of bass fishing at Cruz, conditions were good and they wanted to bite! 4-5.25 Big Hammers in critter colors did the trick. Only took a few pictures today. Cappy

01/28/2024

Santa Barbara local 1/27/24
Hey Gang some great winter bass fishing going on right now! My three Guests today has just over 100 mixed bass today with 3/4 of them being calico’s! Fish were super active in the morning, most fish caught on 3-5in Big Hammers and Phenix spinner baits, color really didn’t seem to matter this time, beautiful day with some awesome Dudes! Cappy

01/15/2024

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11/21/2023

Hey Gang, I’m still at it! Just haven’t been posting much lately. I had a last minute cancellation for this Saturday the 25th if anybody wants to do a trip, $600.00 coastal and $800.00 islands for up to 4 guests. I am booked for for the rest of the year but I am taking reservations for for next year. Thanks! Captain Larry

08/06/2023

Santa Cruz Island 8/5/2023
Hey Gang had an amazing day at Cruz yesterday! This was a trip I donated to my Daughter’s school and my guests were treated to to some of the best fishing our Islands can provide! We came upon pelicans crashing right on the surf line and it was wide on nice calicos, big barracuda and Jason caught two legal white seabass on back to back casts on the Big Hammer! Super fun day!

06/18/2023

Hey Gang, had a last minute cancellation for Saturday the 24th if anyone is interested $600.00 for coastal and $800.00 for Islands. Cappy

05/22/2023

Santa Cruz Island 5/21/2023.
Hey Gang the beat goes on! Fished the backside again this weekend and my guests whacked the calico’s pretty good! doubles, triples, and I think we may have had a quadruple hookup! Critter colored 4-5in Big Hammers getting it done.Anyways another real fun day at the lslands! Cappy

04/30/2023

Santa Cruz Island 4/29/2022
Hey Gang took advantage of the South swell today and fished the backside of Cruz today. The calico’s did not disappoint as my three guests and I had over 80 calico’s to 6.25lbs! all caught on artificial’s with Big Hammers from 4-5.5in getting the bulk of our fish, colors didn’t seem to matter in the dirty water a critter colors and bait fish colors both got slammed, lots of double’s and triple’s today! Too much weeds to fish had baits. Cappy

04/09/2023

Santa Cruz Island 4/8/2023
Hey Gang put together another fun day of bassing today! We slogged our way across the channel and hid on the backside this time and found little pockets of biting fish here and there and in the last 45 minutes we found a little stretch with the right conditions on it and got a pretty good bite on it, the key was real shallow water, with most fish coming out of 2ft of water! All fish released to fight another day! Cappy

03/19/2023

Hey Gang ran the first trip over to the Islands today, we fished down the front side of Santa Cruz to stay out of the South East wind. Absolutely stunning views with water falls everywhere! but due to lack of movement the bass bite was a little slow, however we did manage a few really nice ones! 😀 Cappy

02/21/2023

Hey Gang sorry for the late report!

Ran out of Santa Barbara again Sunday, wanted to revisit the zone that’s been so good to us the last month or so. Morning bite was really good, but despite good tides the afternoon bite was pretty tough! Still ended the day cnring just over 50 mixed bass and another 10misc for my two guests, with the bulk of the catch on critter colored Big Hammers.Flat calm beautiful day all day! Cappy

02/05/2023

Santa Barbara local 2/4/2023.
Hey Gang another fine day of bass fishing! Some of the spots that bit for previous trips didn’t bite but one of the old ones produced a great morning bite and the usual afternoon spot was pretty stupid as it kicked 40 bass in the last hour and half for my three guests for a total of just over 90 bass with almost no bycatch! As usual the critter colored 4-5in Bug Hammers stole the show but freshwater stile jig and trailer got bit well too. Another awesome day of winter bass fishing! Cappy

01/29/2023

01/28/2023
The beat goes on!
Hey Gang pretty much fished the same area as last weekend, and despite not finding nearly as good conditions as last weekend my guests still put together a really good day with nearly 90 mixed bass caught and released! Super fun day with a great group of Guys! Cappy

01/22/2023

Santa Barbara local 1/21/2023
Hey Gang had a really good day of bassing today, both calico’s and sandies were on the chew! Found perfect conditions on a couple area’s and scored just short of 130 bass for my Guests! Various types of plastics worked but 4-5in Big Hammers in the regular critter color’s getting it done, all fish were released on their own recognizance! Cappy

01/21/2023

01/08/2023

Hey Gang, Happy New Year!!!
Just a heads up we will be increasing our rates slightly this year. Coastal trip’s will be $600.00 and Island trip’s will be $800.00, this is for up to 4 angler’s and includes all tackle, rods, lures, bait, ice for fish and food, and fish cleaning is even included! Just bring your lunch and your fishing license.Still plenty of spots open! Come on out and I will show you a good time! Cappy

12/27/2022

Crew trip 12/26/2022
Hey Gang did a for fun freezer trip with my buddy Ned and his son Lauren, fished various spots between Anacapa and Santa Cruz for limits of rockfish ( many nice reds)plus some white fish and sheepshead. Beautiful weather and fun times

11/27/2022

Santa Cruz Island 11/26/2022
Hey Gang, made the run over to the front side of Cruz today with a couple of my favorite bassaholics. Big large duration swell had the calico’s on the chew today as we cnr’d over 60 calico’s today,they really liked the 4in critter colored Big hammers and Ed even got a few on the SP minnow! Couldn’t have asked for a nicer cold water calico bite! Cappy

11/13/2022

Santa Barbara local 11/12/2022.
Hey Gang, we are still doing trips but due to being booked up for the 2022 season early this year I kinda scaled back on the reports 😀. But now as we end the season we are booking for 2023!
Anyways for the report , I had one awesome guest and was treated to really good bass fishing today! We had over 50 mixed bass today, several brown rockfish, a sheepshead and a keeper halibut! Everything was caught in 35-75ft of water on critter colored 4-5in Big Hammers. Real nice weather on the coast and really relaxing fishing! Cappy

06/26/2022

Santa Cruz Island 6/25/2022
Hey Gang had a really fun day with my four guests yesterday with a lot of variety, started the morning destroying the barracuda with calico’s mixed in then got on a fun halibut bite for a couple hours catching 5 halibut up to 18lbs (all on artificials) then limited out on whitefish with a couple sheepshead and rockfish mixed in! Cappy

05/29/2022

Hey Gang been fishing! I haven’t posted for a while but fishing has been good for us At Anacapa! Been having fun with the calico’s and getting in on some of the killer halibut bite as well, here’s some pictures from the last couple weekends. Cappy

01/30/2022

Santa Barbara local 1/29/2022
Hey Gang I ran this weekend’s trip out Santa Barbara again as we wanted to see if we could get on those bass we found a couple of weeks ago. We had similar tides to the last trip but the current really didn’t kick in later in the morning, but once it did it was game on! My Guests and left them biting with 110 mixed bass to just over 5lbs on the clicker , although the sandbass really stole the show! They ate various artificials but once again 4-5in Big Hammers with Calico cocktail stole the show! Awesome weather with great company! Cappy

01/17/2022

Santa Barbara local 1/16/22.
Hey Gang ran the first charter of the 2022 season today! We fished below the harbor and found really good fishing for 80 mixed sandbass and calico’s to about 41/2bs for my two guests and I, all caught on artificial’s fished tight to the bottom. Gorgeous weather and calm sea’s! Cappy

12/22/2021

Wooo, new electronics for the CalicoHunter III!

06/21/2020

Dads trip 6/20/2020
Hey Gang did a for fun trip today with my buddies Scott and Mike, decided to take advantage of the killer weather and run over to the West end of Santa Cruz. We spent a little bit of time out deep looking for coppers but the lack of current gave them lock jaw? Went inside for some big sheepies, a few calicos and a bunch of super aggressive big Johnny’s ,after that we spent the last couple hours drifting down the front side for a really good bite on the calico’s up to 5lbs! Pretty everything we caught but 4-51/2in Big Hammers with a coupleon the Lucky Craft. Cappy

06/14/2020

Santa Barbara local 6/13/20. Well Gang once again we found ourselves pinned down by Mother Nature! We actually managed to scratch together limits of nice Rockies and a 8lb sheepshead before it went from snotty to nautical! Still great to be out on the water!! Cappy

06/07/2020

Santa Barbara local 6/6/2020.
Hey Gang managed to get out despite angry seas, fortunately the Santa Barbara coast provides a decent degree of protection! Anyways we fished bass shallow for the first half with decent results but lots of little bass, than ran out to the 130ft stuff for a mixed bag of critters! Every thing was caught on 4-5in Big Hammers, and big (ling) was caught on the spinning gear!
Till next weekend! Cappy

05/31/2020

Santa Cruz Island 5/30/20
Hey Gang were back!!!
Kinda fitting that today’s group started things off as they were my last charter when things got shut down in March! We had a really fun day of calico fishing on the front side of Cruz. Felt so good to be back on the water! I’m taking bookings now and please stay tune for the new policy’s! Cappy

05/24/2020

Hey Gang I think we are getting real close! Stand by! In the mean while Scott and snuck up the coast out of Ventura, had a good bite on the sandies early and a real fun rip bite on the calicos mid morning, no big fish but a fun half day on the water! Cappy