Showing posts with label Night Fishing Malibu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Night Fishing Malibu. Show all posts
Thursday, June 12, 2014
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.
Monday, May 19, 2014
Night Fishing Malibu 05-19-2014
Trying somewhat to make up for the almost two months I went without fishing I headed back to Malibu, CA to do some more sunset / night fishing since the moon was still fairly large. I arrived at 7:56 PM, just before sunset. Low tide was a +2.25' @ 7:50 PM, high tide was a +4.48' @ 1:39 AM and bait was squid. Weather was great, ocean was nice and calm, bait was nice and fresh but the fish were just not around (or I did not find them) or just weren't interested in eating. I fished up and down coast, all the holes I know of and a plenty of other spots, but it just was not meant to be this night. I packed it in at 12:45 AM and headed home resigned that I was gonna have to take a skunk this time...grrr, lol. Still great to be out on the beach soaking in the ocean air. I will get em the next time ;).
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