The day started out at San Simeon Pier for a little sightseeing and scoping of the area. I didn't even know there was a pier there until I looked it up on the map, lol. After walking the pier and talking to the lone angler there (who had not caught a thing) we headed to the nearest rocky area South of the pier with parking and beach access.
We started fishing here at around 7:54 AM. Brian caught the first fish for the day, a small grass rockfish at 8:03 AM. Nice start! No more fish, but lots of nibbles until 9:27 AM when Brian brought in another small grass rockfish....that was dead with basically it's head ripped slightly away from the body. Hmm, never seen that before. We are not sure if he had something bigger latched on or what, but he was stuck for a while before bringing the poor little guy in. Since it was dead, we kept it for bait. No more fish landed at this spot, but Brian was hooked into something very large that took him into a rock using the rockfish as bait. After a long battle and finally getting the fish loose, his line broke :(. Oh well. We left spot #1 at around 11:45 AM and headed towards Cayucos.
After checking out several very fishing looking areas with no beach access (unless we wanted to risk breaking our necks) we ended up pulling off the road several miles North of Cayucos and started a short walk to the beach we started fishing spot #2 at around 12:45 PM. The area looked super fishy, but alas no fish were caught at this spot today. We packed it in at around 3:45 PM and headed home. Two fish for Brian, none for me....but another gorgeous day on the ocean and in a new area :).
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