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So far, no one has hooked 50 bass to claim $250 prize
By Ed Zieralski, San Diego UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
February 21, 2003
Two down, three to go for Phil Gallo.
Gallo, the doubting fisherman who put up $250 for the Phil Gallo Bay Bass Challenge, fished with Rob Phillips on Wednesday. Phillips, who owns a painting contracting firm and coaches Grossmont High's baseball team, finished with 26 spotted bay bass and two "very nice bonefish," according to Gallo.
But Phillips didn't catch 50 bass, so Gallo will fish with attorney Bill Hokstad on Sunday – weather permitting, and it should be fine.
The first angler to catch 50 bass from the list of five who signed up for the challenge wins $250 from Gallo. The challenge was prompted by Gallo's doubts about fish counts reported over the years by several bay bass fishermen.
Way Chen, who works at Fisherman's Landing Tackle Shop, and Tommy Gomes, a deckhand on the Holiday sport boat out of Point Loma Sportfishing, wait in the wings. Ed Howerton, who went first, finished with 35 sand bass.
Gallo said Phillips used small, curly-tailed shrimp in a "classic ghost shrimp pattern." He said the day started out well, weatherwise, but clouded over at about 3 p.m. as a cold front began to move through.
"As a consequence, the usual afternoon pattern of steadily better fishing did not occur," Gallo said.
On another front, Gallo and Phillips noticed increased security in San Diego Bay. Phillips wanted to launch from the National City ramp off Pepper Street so he could fish around the derelict boats off National City, but the Navy closed the ramp. Phillips launched from Glorietta Bay in Coronado, instead. Phillips was told by the Navy that the National City ramp will be reopened March 17.
Also, Gallo reports that the Navy has established a security zone in front of the 32nd Street Naval Base. Gallo and Phillips couldn't determine the north boundary, but it appeared to go as far as the Coronado Bridge. The south boundary reaches the last red channel buoy north of the Sweetwater River Inlet. It's marked by white Styrofoam buoys, encompasses the entire channel to the South Bay and extends at least 50 yards westward into the bay, Gallo said.
By Ed Zieralski, San Diego UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
February 21, 2003
Two down, three to go for Phil Gallo.
Gallo, the doubting fisherman who put up $250 for the Phil Gallo Bay Bass Challenge, fished with Rob Phillips on Wednesday. Phillips, who owns a painting contracting firm and coaches Grossmont High's baseball team, finished with 26 spotted bay bass and two "very nice bonefish," according to Gallo.
But Phillips didn't catch 50 bass, so Gallo will fish with attorney Bill Hokstad on Sunday – weather permitting, and it should be fine.
The first angler to catch 50 bass from the list of five who signed up for the challenge wins $250 from Gallo. The challenge was prompted by Gallo's doubts about fish counts reported over the years by several bay bass fishermen.
Way Chen, who works at Fisherman's Landing Tackle Shop, and Tommy Gomes, a deckhand on the Holiday sport boat out of Point Loma Sportfishing, wait in the wings. Ed Howerton, who went first, finished with 35 sand bass.
Gallo said Phillips used small, curly-tailed shrimp in a "classic ghost shrimp pattern." He said the day started out well, weatherwise, but clouded over at about 3 p.m. as a cold front began to move through.
"As a consequence, the usual afternoon pattern of steadily better fishing did not occur," Gallo said.
On another front, Gallo and Phillips noticed increased security in San Diego Bay. Phillips wanted to launch from the National City ramp off Pepper Street so he could fish around the derelict boats off National City, but the Navy closed the ramp. Phillips launched from Glorietta Bay in Coronado, instead. Phillips was told by the Navy that the National City ramp will be reopened March 17.
Also, Gallo reports that the Navy has established a security zone in front of the 32nd Street Naval Base. Gallo and Phillips couldn't determine the north boundary, but it appeared to go as far as the Coronado Bridge. The south boundary reaches the last red channel buoy north of the Sweetwater River Inlet. It's marked by white Styrofoam buoys, encompasses the entire channel to the South Bay and extends at least 50 yards westward into the bay, Gallo said.
