Pictures and stories about my fishing trips over the years
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Website in the works. In the meantime I have posted some music I enjoy. I post my fishing trips here as a resource for future trips and to re-live the trips when I cannot get out to wet a line. Comments are welcome! Hope you enjoy. All pictures and videos are taken by me unless otherwise noted and I reserve all copyright privileges to all my Narratives, Photos and Videos. - Burgs
Up bright and early Brian and I were on the road and at our destination by around 8:30 AM. We had fished here before and caught some small guys, so we were hopeful even though we were fishing the outgoing tide (High was a 4.49' @ 6:23 AM and Low was a 0.73 @ 1:45 PM). Brian was quick to catch the first fish, a small grass rockfish (although it kinda looks like something else the more I look at the pic) at 8:40 AM and a nice 13" or so cabazon around 9:00 AM. I however was busy getting snagged left and right and broke my first pole ever at 9:33 AM. Not only was it the first pole I have broken (other than a tip here and there), it was a new 12' Beefstick and it broke in two places at almost the thickest parts....Now that was a bummer, lol.
After trekking back to the car to fetch his back up rod we moved locations to see if fishing was any better there. Long story short, wasn't for me, but Brian caught another small grassy before almost falling into a large pool from a high perch, lol. I was busy getting soaked on the rocks I had waded to that were taking a beating from the waves. After one particularly big set of waves rolled through and made me reel in quickly and brace for the ride I quickly retreated to a safer set of rocks a little bit back...then broke Brian's back up rod at 12:04 PM....well guess I am done fishing. We packed up and left shortly afterwards, and were at the car by 12:30 PM. Frustrating day of fishing for me, good day for Brian and all worth it because I was doing what I love!
Fished from 9:00 AM till 6:00 PM in three locations North of Cayucos, CA. Was a great day of fishing even though we only each caught one fish (Brian caught a nice grass rockfish at 12:12 PM and I caught a tiny cabazon at 12:22 PM). Always nice to be on the salt, regardless of the results. Bait was mostly squid, but think we tried rockfish, smelt and sardines as well if I recall correctly. Tides are not important given the amount of time spent on the water (ask in the comments if you really want to know).
Taking a break from helping out a friend in Central California, Brian and I decided to take the day to fish some new areas. The tides sucked for what I like (it was an outgoing tide, I prefer to fish the incoming tide), but it was the day and time we had available so we fished :).
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 :).
