Isthmus Cove Pier - Two Harbors, Catalina, CA 03-23-2012

Arrived at the Catalina Express Two Harbors port in Isthmus Cove at about 5:30 P.M.. After paying for our campsite and luggage delivery we made our way up to camp at around 6:30 P.M. to get camp set up. After getting set up we went down to the only restaurant in town the Harbor Reef Restaurant. After dinner we started fishing the Isthmus cove pier around 9:00 P.M. and fished till about 1:00 A.M.. My dad caught the first fish of the night, which was a 13" kelp bass. He also caught another small bass. I caught three jumbo mackerels. I forget if Hasheem or John caught anything...pictures below.

Redondo Break Wall 02/26/2012

So after taking a couple hour nap after the Ventura trip I got up and headed to Culver City to pick up Thresher_One / Robert at about 10:30 P.M. on 02/25/2012. We arrived at the secret location to make bait for the morning. We worked all night getting live peppermint shrimp as bait for the morning fishing at the jetty. I also caught five huge (all 14+ ") pacific mackerels while making bait (I could have caught all I wanted, but five was enough). At around 5:30 A.M. we moved to the main jetty / break wall at Redondo. We walked about half way out and fished from about 6 A.M. till about 10:45 A.M.. Robert was killing it and I was picking off a fish every so often. Robert released about 6 big pregnant black / butter mouth perch and about 5 small sargo. He kept one large sargo (15+") and two Split Tails (new species to me). I landed about 7 butter mouth perch (kept two, the others were either to small or were pregnant) a tiny opal eye and one decent sized sargo. I hooked into something that felt pretty massive, but either it or a seal broke my 30 pound test :(. Robert lost one 16+" opal eye one the rocks on the way up (it was a dang nice looking fish). All and all another great outing with Robert at Redondo and our secret shrimping location.

Fish pics and a pic of the kelp in the harbor below:

King Harbor (Redondo Beach) 02/11/2012-02/12/2012

Hit up the rocks just South of the sportsfishing pier inside King Harbor with the wife (she just kept me company, no fishing for her). Fished from about 11:30 P.M. to 3:30 A.M. catching about a dozen medium to large pacific mackerels. The swell was pretty huge all morning (waves were crashing over the main jetty regularly).