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:

Redondo Jetty 12/23/2011 - 12/24/2011

Hit the secret location south of Redondo for the Peppermint shrimp bait for use on the big Redondo Jetty. Met Redkorn around 11:30 P.M. and proceeded to the location. Shrimping was super slow, only managed about 15, but the time went quick because of the great company and conversation. Moved to the big jetty around 6:00 A.M. and fished till about 12:00 Noon for one small Sargo and a 2" cabazon. I tried Squid, Mackerel and Halfmoon for bait after the shrimp ran out. Pretty much no fish after I used the 15 shrimp for bait. Redkorn did land a short Halibut on the harbor side using a jig. Slow day of shrimping and fishing for us....there were a couple Asian gentlemen just North of us who were killing it with Ghost Shrimp under a bobber and around an 8' leader. I will have to try the Ghost Shrimp one of these times (they landed a huge Cab, two large Calico Bass and a few Opal Eyes).

Redondo Jetty 12/09/2011 - 12/10/2011

Started out Friday night at around 11:00 P.M. making bait for fishing in the morning on the big jetty. Our night of making bait resulted in this lovely live bait (don't ask me how we did it, it is a secret reserved for a few who I will only show in person):




















I also caught two small sculpin on Squid while we were making bait. (One shown below)












About 5:30 A.M. we proceeded to the long jetty to utilize the bait. I fished a little till about 6:00 A.M. when I had to leave for a few hours to take the wife to work. I returned at around 9:00 A.M. to continue fishing and managed two decent sized perch (butter mouth?) while fishing till around 11:30 A.M.. Robert and his other buddy caught eight and five assorted perch and opal eyes (no pics yet).





















All in all, a great outing with great company. I can hardly wait for the next round.