Coastal Angler Tagging Cooperative

We had another fantastic day on the water today aboard the Sea Watch!! Calico bass fishing has been absolutely phenomenal lately, the weather was perfect, and the crew of the Sea Watch are awesome!! We were too busy tagging to take any photos...again! We have tagged over a thousand bass in the last week :)

Today was a FANTASTIC trip aboard the Outer Limits out of Seaforth Landing!!! The crew went above and beyond!! We ended up tagging 452 calicos for 18 anglers in La Jolla!! Everyone had an awesome time, and I think we all need to re-stock on swimbaits again :)  Thank you, everyone!!! Today's trip beat our past daily tagging record by 50 fish!!

Thank you everyone for all your support at the Fred Hall Show in Long Beach! We received a ton of positive feedback, and we recruited some new bass taggers to help with the project! We're looking forward to another great show in Del Mar next week!

The show started really well yesterday, and the booth looks great, so stop by and chat with us about the project! We're located in booth 0604, in the main exhibit hall right across the aisle from M&M Custom Rods and Bloodydecks.

We just created a new Facebook page for the Coastal Angler Tagging Cooperative....it's still being developed, but feel free to check out our photos from past tagging charters. More to come soon!

Stop by our booth at the Fred Hall Fishing and Boat Show in both Long Beach and Del Mar this year! You can sign up for future tagging charters, learn more about the project, and hear us give seminars about the tagging results! I have worked for the Hall family for the last 22 years at the fishing shows, and this time I'm setting up a booth to educate people about our research. Hope to see ya there!

We tagged more spotties at the SDA tournament over the weekend, and we got our first recaptured fish from Mission Bay the other day! Thank you to San Diego Anglers!

We'll be tagging this Saturday at the Saltwater Bass Series (http://www.saltwaterbassseries.com/) tournament at Shelter Island. Some of these fish will actually be caught by teams in Mission Bay, and then transported to San Diego Bay for the weigh-in. This will be interesting because it will allow us to begin answering questions about the potential homing abilities of bass. Should be fun!

With the help of many people today, including Dwayne Patenaude of San Diego Anglers as well as Bob Fletcher, we tagged 160 bass at the tournament in San Diego Bay. We also had a table set up inside the main tent and received a lot of great feedback and information from everyone. Huge thanks to San Diego Anglers!!!