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PCS Sportfishing Festival 2013......thanks to all
Bill DePriest-Editor/Publisher
Apr. 30 2013, 8:09 PM - 0 Comments

Thanks so much to all of our vendors and attendees of the 2013 PCS Sportfishing Festival.......it's only a success because of you guys.....here are some great pics of the weekends events...also congrats to our winner of the 12 Stealth Malibu Kayak......a happy man....see you next year for the 5th annual!

4th Annual Pacific Coast Sportfishing Festival April 27 and 28 OC Fairgrounds
Bill DePriest-Editor/Publisher
Apr. 1 2013, 3:57 PM - 0 Comments

4^th annual Pacific Coast Sportfishing Festival April 27 and 28 OC Fairgrounds

Well its time again for the only pure Saltwater Sportfishing show on the coast. We are at it again with four seminars per day and tons of great vendors and boats. The show will be held at the Orange County Fairgrounds April 27^th and 28^th in the largest building on the property the Costa Mesa Building. We are excited to announce that we have grown again with another 15,000 or so square feet of all saltwater. There will be many more boats this year as well. We are staying true to our word from the very first festival, you wont be bombarded with products you don’t want or care about just pure saltwater sportfishing items.................we will be giving away a $1000 Malibu Kayak Sunday afternoon and the first 25 through the door each day will get a killer gift pack!

IPAD APP
Bill DePriest-Editor/Publisher
Nov. 30 2012, 1:59 PM - 0 Comments

Well we have now entered the 21^st century........all jokes aside we have just launched our IPAD App for the magazine and we thrilled to share it with you for free.........yep completely free so share this link with your buddies and enjoy reading the magazine on your IPAD!

"Pacific Coast Sportfishing Magazine is proud to announce the launch of their iPad App. The app is completely free and gives you the freedom to download a digital copy of magazine to your Ipad. This will be great for current subscribers to keep their print copy at home or on the boat and a digital for the road or for out-of-the area guys who just want to learn what we are doing on the West Coast. Just follow this link and remember to share it with all your buddies as well." https://itunes.apple.com/app/pacific-coast-sportfishing/id580973197?mt=8

It's on......
Ryan Lawler
Nov. 13 2012, 10:54 AM - 3 Comments

I got to see our cutter in action as the weather laid down and the fishermen came out. We came in contact with a fishing vessel which had not been inspected at sea in over a year and was actively fishing. The OPS sent out a boarding team on "Shark 1", our cutter's "over the horizon" (OTH) small boat. This OTH was crewed by a boarding officer, two maritime enforcement rated petty officers, and boatswain's mates for the handling of the "Shark 1". In the Coast Guard, those ranked petty officers and above are federal law enforcement agents. This boarding of the F/V was done quickly and easily. OPS told me that the Coast Guard wants to make the boarding as low impact as possible for the fishermen, so she checked with them over VHF first to make sure they had completed their set of gear before the team inspected them. The catch on the F/V was sablefish and assorted rockfish mixed with some spiny dogfish and skate by-catch. On this particular vessel, there was an observer from NOAA, so the risk of illegal fishing was low.

Before we could meet other fishing vessels, the fleet had headed in because of an impending storm. All day Sunday we had a gale blowing, giving us 10-18 foot seas and driving rain. In the Pacific Northwest, boarding windows come and go, as the ability to launch the small boats is impaired by the fickle weather.

Reporting to you from the 210 foot US Coast Guard Cutter STEADFAST
Ryan Lawler
Nov. 8 2012, 10:39 AM - 5 Comments

I’m reporting to you from the 210’ US Coast Guard Cutter STEADFAST, as Pacific Coast Sportfishing Magazine covers the Coast Guard’s “Living Marine Resource Patrols” here in the Pacific Northwest. It is a rare opportunity to live among an active duty Coast Guard crew for two weeks. I will be reporting on their enforcement of various fisheries laws, as well as the safety regulation and search and rescue efforts that may come our way. Currently, the CGC STEADFAST makes LMR patrols in the Pacific Northwest, and also ventures off of Mexico/Central America for illegal drug interdiction. She was built in 1968 and earned a reputation as the “White Shark” of the Caribbean from drug cartels. It is the first and only one of two Coast Guard Cutters to have seized more than one million pounds of marijuana.

PEI Bluefin Bonanza
Bill DePriest-Editor/Publisher
Oct. 3 2012, 5:06 PM - 1 Comments

Talk about the trip of a lifetime........dad and I went to Prince Edward Island in early September this year and were greeted with great fishing for Giant Bluefin in the 700-1100lb range. The weather was great, fishing was wonderful, company was as good as it gets. Dad and I both caught trophy bluefin and went home smiling........cant beat it..the new October issue has the full story...check out www.tonystunafishing.com to book a trip with these guys.......the best of the best!!!!

LA Chase 2012
Erik Landesfeind - SWBA Tournament Trail
Oct. 3 2012, 5:00 PM - 0 Comments

Marina Del Rey played host to the 6^th and final regular season tournament of the 2012 SWBA Tournament Series, the LA Chase. The event attracted 44 teams that had 8 hours to fish the waters between Point Mugu and Point Vincente in an attempt to bring in the largest 5 fish bag of bass. This event was open to all three species (sand bass, calicos and spotted bay bass) and offered a 5 point bonus for any team weighing at least one of each species.

Shelf Bass Special
Erik Landesfeind - SWBA Tournament Trail
May. 16 2012, 5:31 PM - 0 Comments

On Saturday May 12^th, South Shores Launch Ramp in Long Beach was the site of the SWBA’s first open water event of the 2012 season. The “Shelf Bass Special”, sponsored by Sanderson Farms Chicken, was an eight hour event during which teams would try to catch their biggest five fish limit of any species of bass. Teams weighing at least one of all three bass species (Sand Bass, Calico Bass and Spotted Bay Bass) would receive an extra five points in the all important season standings. Boundaries for this event were Point Vincente to the north and the Corona Del Mar Jetty to the south.

photo credit Jimmy Sahagun

During the weeks leading up to the event, teams found good fishing for Calicos along the Palos Verdes coastline and excellent fishing for Sand Bass on the rocks and reefs to the south. With the northern boundary putting half of Palos Verdes off limits, many teams that would normally target Calicos pre-fished for Sand Bass as a fall back plan in case PV was too crowded on tournament day. Reports from final days of pre-fishing before the week long off-limits period, were that the Sand Bass fishing was tougher than it had been in previous weeks and that some dirty water had moved in off PV. Well, just like in every event, all the anglers could do was sit back and wait to see what happened on tournament day.

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Round 2 The Bordertown Brawl
Erik Landesfeind - SWBA Tournament Trail
Apr. 6 2012, 4:16 PM - 0 Comments

The SWBA Tournament Trail headed south on March 31^st for the second event of the 2012 season, “The Bordertown Brawl”. The tournament, which was sponsored by Codornices Supremas and held in the Chula Vista Marina, was the first multi-bay tournament in SWBA history. The format gave teams eight hours to fish San Diego or Mission Bay in an attempt to catch the largest five fish bag of Spotted Bay Bass.

Cabin Fever Reliever
Erik Landesfeind - SWBA Tournament Trail
Mar. 12 2012, 2:32 PM - 0 Comments

On Saturday February 11^th, sixty nine teams turned out to kick off the 2012 SWBA season at the “Cabin Fever Reliever”, a Spotted Bay Bass only event, in Newport Harbor. Expectations were pretty low going into the event as pre-fishing had been extremely difficult. In fact, several veterans of the series said that it was the worst fishing they’d experienced in the SWBA’s eight year history of hosting Newport Harbor events.

Photos by Jimmy Sahagun

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