Redondo Sportsfishing Pier 05-30-2012

Hit up the Sportsfishing pier at Redondo today. Started out at around 7:30 AM and fished till 2:00 PM. Fishing was very slow all day. I caught three mackerel, a smelt and a couple senorita fish (damn bait stealer, lol). I tried to crab for a bit, but since I forgot my bait cage the seals promptly removed the mackerel in the net portion so I stopped to keep the seals away and since it was pointless. Very nice weather and very little swell (probably why fishing was slow). At one point my heavy line with a live smelt for bait took off peeling line out, but when I brought it up a seal was right behind it so I am thinking either the seal hit my line or the smelt really wanted to get away from it, lol. Lots of Calico bass, mostly shorts, being caught and released on the side portion of the pier.

Redondo Muni Pier 04-14-2012

Day started out with me arriving around 8:30 A.M. I quickly scouted out the Sportsfishing (short) pier and the end was already full, so I proceeded to the small finger jetty North of the pier and fished for about an hour and a half until Mahigeer was done having breakfast with his Wife at Polly’s. We arrived at the Municipal Pier across the harbor around 11 and scouted out a few places before we settled on the South facing side because the wind was terrible and the restaurants provided a much needed wind break. We fished the pier till about 3:30 P.M. or so for Mahigeer when his wife came to collect him. I stayed until about 4:30 P.M. at which point it was time to go pick up the wife from LAX. Pretty slow day of fishing with the only fish caught being about five (5) sardines when they made a short run close to the pier. It was impossible to cast out from the pier because there were too many novices and / or inconsiderate people who were letting their lines drift 100 feet one way or the other in front of everyone else. I was pretty annoyed with it, but I was there to relax so I did not say anything.

Some pics of the harbor and pier below: