Lure Colors

every time I look at a lure wall in a store I too spend most of my time looking over what I feel are the best color baits. What I've learned over the years is that color is over rated. I feel that the presentation of a lure is much more important than it's color. If you can get a fish to think your lure is a live and a real fish then it really doesn't matter what color it is. As most of you know I like to fish with a MM7 Magic Metal Jig when I have barracuda around my boat and often I hooked so many fish on that jig that they start to eat the paint off the lure. What i've found is when I get my jig to swim just right it doesn't matter what color it is, fish will eat it.

Last spring I was on my skiff and the barries where down swell from me, I tossed out a MM7 in a mackerel pattern and I hooked fish after fish, after the while half the jig didn't have any paint on it, but the fish still ate it. as I said color is not that important, it's all about the action and how you make your jig swim.

Recent e-mails

Over the past few weeks I've been getting phone calls and e-mails from viewers all around the country. Today I got two calls from NY and yesterday one from FL. I guess because my main TV markets are here in CA I forget that people watch my program all over the country and a few places out side of the USA too. It's always nice to hear from my viewers.

First off thank you all for watching my program and if you'd like to keep up with everything that we are doing you can sign up for our free newsletter on my website at www.sport-fishing.com. Also on my website are all of our fishing trips for 2010. Each trip is filmed for broadcast for my program, if you've never been on one of my trips please go on-line and sign up today.

I'll also be at the Fred Hall Fishing Show next week week in Long Beach, CA if you're coming to the show, make sure to stop by our booth and say hi!

Dan's blog more informaion about using bucktails

Here's a little more insight on why I like fishing with B-52 bucktail jigs.

More About B-52 Bucktails

I talk a little more about why I like to fish with B-52 Bucktails.

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Last Night

Last night two friends and I went lobster fishing, normally I know that's not huge news, but two days ago a large storm had come though southern CA and the weatherman was saying that there would be no wind and no rain and he said the waves would be 3-5 feet.

We got these a little late, my friend Greg and I towed my boat and Caesar met us at the boat ramp, just because he lives in that part of town. As we were leaving the dock two boats where heading back in. The skipper of one of the boats told us the water was very rough and that they had taken two large waves over the bow, they felt lucky to get back in safe. They suggested we put my boat back on the trailer and try it another day. We thought we'd poke our head out side and just see how bad it really was. it was around 7:30 by the time we cleared the breakwater and the guys were right, it was rough, wet and keeping cold fast. We drove about a half mile out and then I turned the boat around, but when I turned the boat back I was able to get a good look at the seas thanks to the millions of lights along the Los Angeles area. I felt it was safe to at least give it a try, so I turned the boat around and headed back toward the fishing grounds. We did hit a few large waves, but I just cut back my speed and all was well. I was surprised to see we where the only boat on the reef. We worked hard, battling both high seas and wind. After three hours of lobster fishing we only had two legal size lobsters and nine crabs for the three of us. Now the seas had gone from 4-5 feet to 5-7, with a few ten footers mixed in and it also started to rain. Now it was time to call it a night.

Fishing in the dark is always a challenge, but adding big seas, wind, and rain made things even worst. The hard part was that I just couldn't see the waves as they came in and I didn't want to have the boat sideways just incase a large wave came in. I stayed on the wheel most of the night, keeping us pointed into the waves as much as I could. ending the night with so few bugs was a disappointment, but the most important part of going fishing is to return back safely and we did that. I guess the safe thing would of been to just put the boat back on the trailer and drove home, but as they say the boat wasn't built to sit on the trailer and I love to go fishing, even in the rain with strong winds and high seas, it's just what people like us like to do.

Dan Hernandez blog on B-52 Bucktails

Fishing for bonita

Here's a little video blog for you about fishing for bonita with Magic Metal Jigs.

How-to use Magic Metal Jigs

Last Night Lobster Fishing, Again

Last night was a perfect night to go lobster fishing. two of my fishing buddies and I took my Skeeter bay Boat to Marina del Rey for a night of lobster fishing. The weather was perfect and I fished all night in a t-shirt and short pants. On our first pull of the night we had a legal lobster. We were not a lone as there were already five boats on the spot I wanted to fish, so we spent most of the night fishing in the mud away for all the rock piles, but for us it didn't seem to matter, the lobsters were moving all night long.

One thing we did different last night was that we only used fresh bait and I think that really made the difference for us, we had mackerel, bonita and salmon heads that we had bought at an Asian sea food market. Besides the 14 legal lobsters, we also almost limited out on nice size crabs too. 14 lobsters for three people is not limits, but for us it was awesome, that was the most legal lobsters I have ever taken in one night.

If you have never been lobster fishing I really suggest you give it a try. the season ends in mid March, so get out there soon and try it.

Just a reminder if you'd like to come out on one of my fishing charters, you can sign up now, all of my 2010 trips are now posted on my website at www.sport-fishing.com.