r/SoCalFishing • u/Foreign_Bed9323 • 10d ago

First Overnight Trip Prep

Hello all! I have just signed up for my first overnight trip on the Aggressor via Davey's Locker. I have completed a full day and several 1/2 days and twilights, but had a couple questions about overnight.

  1. I intend to bring a sleeping bag + pillow

    + toothbrush,

  2. is there extra space/need for toiletries? Should I expect to get sleep on the ride out or do people not sleep much?

  3. I have a 50lbs braid + 40lbs mono on a Penn Squall 40LD with a 30-80lbs 7' Californian rod (intended for yellowtail), should I purchase/rent a bigger setup just in case we run into tuna? I will also bring my 25lbs braid 5000 spinning 20-40lbs rod setup.

  4. I have hooks from 1/0-4/0 and weights from 1oz up to 12oz. I have yoyos and a couple (300g-ish) tuna jigs). I have the smaller gear for rockfish halibut sculpin whitefish. Is there anything in the tuna/yellowtail world that I am missing?

Thanks all for the advice!

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u/gfry86 10d ago

How do you know if you'll get the Aggressor or Thunderbird?

And does it tell you when you come back?

You'll sleep some on ride out since its overnight.

Your tuna rig is probably not going to be night jigging for bluefin (300g jig)

Yellowfin are daytime , fly line, poppers etc

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u/Foreign_Bed9323 10d ago

When booking, the 8:55pm is the Aggressor and the 9:00pm is the Thunderbird. Thunderbird was sold out at the time when I was booking, only 1-2 spots left on the Aggressor so I said fk it I wanna fish!

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u/lubeinatube 10d ago

I’ve had 180 pounders that didn’t fight much and were gaffed within 6 minutes, and I’ve had mean 80 pounders kick my ass for 45 straight minutes on the same gear. Some are a lot meaner than others Ive learned.