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Cowboy up for boiler-rock bass

By Joel Shangle
ESPNOutdoors.com

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Load up on grubs, swimbaits and intestinal fortitude, boys and girls, the boiler-rock Calico bite is at DefCon 4 this month throughout the Santa Barbara Channel. While the unquestioned glamour species of the Santa Barbara fishing fleet — white seabass and yellowtail — are on-again off-again visitors here in October, the humble calico is a sure thing…as long as you have the guts and boat-handling skills to keep you and a squadron of chunk-and-winders within a couple of boat le ...

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