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Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Night Fishing Malibu 06-10-2014
Having been five days since I last fished, I was ready to hit the water. After solidifying my partner (non-fishing) for the night, Mr. Doug, we headed to Malibu, CA to to some fishing during the nearly full moon. We arrived around 7:15 PM and I set up and started fishing. High tide was a +5.65' @ 7:52 PM and low was a -.062' at 3:06 AM on 06-11-2014. Notice I was fishing the outgoing tide, which is not my preference, but sometimes you just have to fish when you can ;).
Fishing was super slow all evening. I had a couple lost hook ups (large cabazon and medium shark are my guesses based on the way the bit and fought while I had them on) throughout the evening, but for the most part I found myself just soaking in the beauty while trying to find where the fish were hiding. I did reel in a very small spiny lobster at 9:09 PM which flapped like mad when I tried to remove it from my hook and I wisely let it fall off (they have very sharp tails) and it hunkered down in between some of the rocks I was standing on which you can see in three pics below (you can only see it's antennas and head).
The first and only fish landed on the night was a nice fat 14" or so yellow fin croaker which I caught at 10:39 PM. Not being a fan of the species due to it being a close relative to the white fin croaker, which is on the DO NOT CONSUME (PDF link) list I released the fat guy even though I have heard they are delicious.
We packed it in around 11:15 PM and headed home with nothing but memories and photos, which is just fine by me on occasion ;) Bait was squid as usual.
Fishing was super slow all evening. I had a couple lost hook ups (large cabazon and medium shark are my guesses based on the way the bit and fought while I had them on) throughout the evening, but for the most part I found myself just soaking in the beauty while trying to find where the fish were hiding. I did reel in a very small spiny lobster at 9:09 PM which flapped like mad when I tried to remove it from my hook and I wisely let it fall off (they have very sharp tails) and it hunkered down in between some of the rocks I was standing on which you can see in three pics below (you can only see it's antennas and head).
The first and only fish landed on the night was a nice fat 14" or so yellow fin croaker which I caught at 10:39 PM. Not being a fan of the species due to it being a close relative to the white fin croaker, which is on the DO NOT CONSUME (PDF link) list I released the fat guy even though I have heard they are delicious.
We packed it in around 11:15 PM and headed home with nothing but memories and photos, which is just fine by me on occasion ;) Bait was squid as usual.
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Surf Fishing Malibu CA 06-04-2014
Hmm, no fishing in June yet....time to fix that by heading down to my favorite local city, Malibu, CA :). No early morning this day since low tide was a +0.71 @ 8:52 AM and high tide was a +3.59 @ 4:10 PM, bait was squid as usual. We (my wife Alisa and I) arrived at 9:47 AM to a tide still pretty far out. I moved up and down the coast for a while as the tide slowly came in before settling on my final "rock" a little before 11:00 AM (meaning, after that I would be casting from shore as the tide would be too far in for me to feel safe walking out on slippery rocks to a large rock to stand and fish from).
Fish #1 came at 11:16 AM, which was a medium sized Calico Perch which was promptly released after a long distance photo of it, lol.
Fish #2 came at 12:05 PM, which was a small, 11" or so, Grass Rockfish. Grass Rockfish are my second favorite fish to eat, only California Halibut tops it if you ask me (and the Malibu Cafe has it on it's menu, pricey but yummy), but too small for my personal size limit and not meaty enough to keep even if it was an inch bigger, so back it went as well.
No more action after that but it was a gorgeous day out and I caught fish, so I was a happy fisherman :). We packed up and headed home at 2:00 PM. Another great day of fishing at the beach in Sunny Southern California! You can really see how different this particular spot looks at low and high tides if you compare the panorama pics below BTW.
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Fish #1 came at 11:16 AM, which was a medium sized Calico Perch which was promptly released after a long distance photo of it, lol.
Fish #2 came at 12:05 PM, which was a small, 11" or so, Grass Rockfish. Grass Rockfish are my second favorite fish to eat, only California Halibut tops it if you ask me (and the Malibu Cafe has it on it's menu, pricey but yummy), but too small for my personal size limit and not meaty enough to keep even if it was an inch bigger, so back it went as well.
No more action after that but it was a gorgeous day out and I caught fish, so I was a happy fisherman :). We packed up and headed home at 2:00 PM. Another great day of fishing at the beach in Sunny Southern California! You can really see how different this particular spot looks at low and high tides if you compare the panorama pics below BTW.
Friday, May 30, 2014
Sunrise Surf Fishing Malibu 05-30-2014
Being 11 days since I last fished and wanting to get back into my old routine of going at least twice a week, plus perfect conditions (on paper, lol) equaled me and Alisa getting up very early, 3:45 AM, and heading to Malibu, CA. After gassing up and heading out we arrived at my target location for the day at 5:10 AM (Alisa lagged or I would have been there earlier, lol).
The ideal conditions mentioned above were:
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#1 - A nearly New Moon (only 6% visible) would in a fisherman's eyes be perfect because theoretically the fish feed less when there is less light at night and are hungry for breakfast if you will as soon as their is some light (why I like to be there at first light vs. sunrise which is about 35-40 minutes apart right now).
#2 - For this particular area I love the low negative tides because I can walk around and garner intelligence on what the bottom looks like in the areas I am frequently fishing in at high or when the tide gets to about +2' or so. Low tide was a -0.62' @ 5:23 A.M. and high tide was a +3.47' @ 11:52 A.M., I also prefer to fish the incoming tides...always ;).
So after getting up at that ungodly hour to hit the perfect first light conditions....fishing was super slow almost all day. So slow I even tried bait other than squid eventually, lol. I used a sandwich of squid, shrimp and muscles all tied nicely together with Magic Thread. Which eventually did the trick on my last cast about five minutes before leaving at 9:00 A.M....and was it ever a fish, a 17" 2 pound, 2.94 ounce pig grass rockfish! Now that was worth the wait...and I could have slept in, lol.
Alisa also found something I had never seen before, Keyhole Limpets the orange bottomed things in the pics below. There are also a few pics at the end of the other various cool sea life we saw around. Another great day in sunny Southern California! I friggin love it!
The ideal conditions mentioned above were:
.
#1 - A nearly New Moon (only 6% visible) would in a fisherman's eyes be perfect because theoretically the fish feed less when there is less light at night and are hungry for breakfast if you will as soon as their is some light (why I like to be there at first light vs. sunrise which is about 35-40 minutes apart right now).
#2 - For this particular area I love the low negative tides because I can walk around and garner intelligence on what the bottom looks like in the areas I am frequently fishing in at high or when the tide gets to about +2' or so. Low tide was a -0.62' @ 5:23 A.M. and high tide was a +3.47' @ 11:52 A.M., I also prefer to fish the incoming tides...always ;).
So after getting up at that ungodly hour to hit the perfect first light conditions....fishing was super slow almost all day. So slow I even tried bait other than squid eventually, lol. I used a sandwich of squid, shrimp and muscles all tied nicely together with Magic Thread. Which eventually did the trick on my last cast about five minutes before leaving at 9:00 A.M....and was it ever a fish, a 17" 2 pound, 2.94 ounce pig grass rockfish! Now that was worth the wait...and I could have slept in, lol.
Alisa also found something I had never seen before, Keyhole Limpets the orange bottomed things in the pics below. There are also a few pics at the end of the other various cool sea life we saw around. Another great day in sunny Southern California! I friggin love it!
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