Surf Fishing Malibu 02-07-2014

Being bored and not feeling like doing much I decided to take a quick trip to Malibu, CA to do some surf fishing. I arrived at 11:43 AM, low tide was a +0.7' @ 11:08 AM and high tide was a +2.73' @ 6:36 PM. Bait was squid as always.

Fishing was pretty slow, but I did manage to catch one fish at 1:16 PM which was a 27" Leopard Shark, which was of course released since the minimum size to keep a Leopard Shark is 36" to keep. No action other than that. I packed it in and headed home at 2:40 PM, happy I had at least caught something during my short outing and, as always, refreshed from being at the beach.

Sunrise Surf Fishing Malibu 01-21-2014

Since it had been a whopping three days since I had fished, I headed down to a spot in Malibu, CA to do a little fishing. I was greeted by darkness when I arrived, but a spectacularly beautiful sunrise as it slowly made its way up. Lots of pictures of the sunrise, sea and sky in this post. I arrived around 6:05 AM. Low tide was a 1.87' @ 6:06 AM and high tide was a 3.63' @ 11:33 AM, bait was squid. Aside from the calm seas and gorgeous sunrise, sky and sea the fishing was very very slow. My only fish of the day was a very small (6-7") grass rockfish which I caught at 9:01 AM. A nibble here and there was all I got after that until I packed it in at 10:19 AM. Slow day of fishing, but worth getting up early just for the views.

Surf Fishing Malibu with Hammer 11-27-2013

My friend Hammer finally had the stars align which allowed him to go fishing with me, so we headed to Malibu of course after meeting up at my parents house. We arrived around 10:30 AM and left around 1:30 PM. Low tide was a 1.54 @ 11:37 AM and high was a 3.29 @ 5:02 PM. Bait was squid as usual. Hammer caught the first and unfortunately last fish of the day at 10:52 AM, which was a small grass rockfish. After a quick pose for a pic, back the little guy went. It was very very slow fishing, not even many missed bites but as usual it was gorgeous in Malibu. I was very happy that the Hammer man caught a fish. Now to get him back out more often, lol.

Surf Fishing Malibu 11-08-2013

Back in LA, I decided to hit up my favorite city to fish in, Malibu of course! I arrived at a little before 7:00 AM to absolutely gorgeous weather! Got my first and only fish of the day, a nice sized (12"-13") Calico Perch at 8:03 AM. Nothing else after that until I left around 11:15 AM. I got a little bored since fishing was slow and played around with and made a little spread of all of the crustacean shells lying around on the beach, which you can see below :).

Surf Fishing Malibu 01-20-2013

Hit up the Malibu spot for a few hours with Brian. Arrived around 9:30AM and fished till about 1:30PM. Fishing was very slow with us each catching one small grass rockfish on squid. Great day out, lots of eye candy :) Gotta love nice thongs on da beach while fishing (made up for the slow fishing for sure). Sorry no pics of that, lol. My fish was pretty beat up by something, but I put em back anyways.

Malibu Produces Again 10-28-2012

After catching some nice fish in Malibu the day before, when Brian asked where we should fish I quickly said Malibu surf :). We decided to meet up there, I arrived around 7:35 AM and for the first time ever, someone was in my spot :(. Oh well, it was bound to happen one of these times, gotta get up earlier next time. I decided to try a little further South from my usual spot and within 15 minutes (7:55AM) landed my first fish of the day...a tiny grass rockfish.

Back in the water and fish #2 came up 25 minutes later (8:20 AM). This time an 11" grassy. Tossed him back since I already had three nice fish in the fridge from yesterday and he was in good shape.

Ten minutes later (8:30 AM) and I have fish #3, an 11.5" grass rockfish which I released as well.

Fishing slowed after that and Brian arrived at about 8:45 AM. My usual spot opened up around 10:00 AM so we both moved North and Brian brings in a nice 11" grassy (released) shortly later followed at 10:57 AM with a nice Cabazon. We both are thinking it is legal, but it taped out to 14.5", so back he went.

At 11:36 AM my squid is hammered and I bring in a beautiful 13.5" grassy, which I kept. Brian also landed a nice 12.5" grass rockfish around this time which we also kept.

Fish #5, a 11" grassy, came at 12:10 PM, followed closely by another cabby (12.5") for Brian at 12:18 AM.

Fifteen minutes later I have fish  #6 a 11+" grassy with a FAT belly and a mouth FULL of squid, greedy little guy, lol. Let him go to after a quick picture.

Final tally: Me: Six (6) grass rockfish, Brian: Two (2) grass rockfish, two (2) cabazon. Another great day in Malibu. We headed back to my pad to make some fish and chips afterwards.