Malibu Surf Fishing 05-07-2012

Fishing the surf in Malibu from about 10:00 AM till 2:00 PM (high tide was at around 11:45 AM). Got a few short bites, but nothing that stuck. Pretty slow day fishing. Tried Cut Mackerel, Sardine, Squid and crab. Only the sardines seems to get any attention. A lot of crab action (stealing my bait). First trip here where I got the skunk, knew it would come sooner or later, lol.

Fishing area:

Round 2 North of Malibu Pier 04-22-2012

After finishing up at Redondo I felt like fishing more and had a few hours of daylight left so I headed over to my new favorite spot in Malibu. Started fishing around 5:00 P.M. using a single rod with a double dropper loop with cut sardine and grunion as bait. After losing two sinkers and four hooks this way I switched over to a single reverse dropper loop with cut sardine. First cast as soon as it hit bottom this 13" grass rockfish hammered my bait. Reeled him in after a short battle, bled em and headed home after about 15 more minutes. Two trips two fish so far at this spot, so I am really digging this spot.

Redondo Sportsfishing Pier 04-15-2012

Day started out by meeting Redkorn at the Sportsfishing (Short) pier in the harbor at about 7:00 A.M.. We started out both using sabikis on one pole and bigger bait on the other (live sardines or mackerels when we had them). Fishing was pretty good all day on Mackerels and a late day heavy run of sardines. We saw some bonito in the water so we let Mahigeer know and he came to the pier around noon. After a while I got tired of using two poles so I switched to one sabiki pole and started crabbing with my net. I ended up catching three (3) male yellow rock crabs and one medium sized female spider crab. I kept the yellow crabs and put back the spider to make more babies. John stayed until around 6:00 P.M. and Mahigeer and I stayed till about 7:00 P.M... I ended up bringing home the yellow rock crabs and a couple dozen mackerel and over 150 sardines. The mackerel and 1/3 of the sardines are salt curing as I type and the other 2/3’s of the sardines I brought in for my co-workers to share. Great day of fishing! Pics of the copters looking for a body and the take below:

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:

Hermosa Beach Pier 04/08/2012

Arrived at the pier at around 7:00 A.M. with my fishing buddy Brian. At first we started at about the half way mark just past a huge group of anglers killing it on sardines with sabikis. After a while we moved further up the pier to try our luck in the location we did well at last time we were here. We both landed quite a few mackerel and sardines throughout the day using sabikis. Brian caught one 10" or so rock fish and I caught one keeper rock crab in my crab net. Did see one guy hooked into a large thresher shark which put on quite a show, jumping out of the water and making a couple runs under the pier. Once up closer the angler snapped his line being to aggressive with it while two friends we trying to rope gaff it. It was a shame he lost such a nice shark. Also talked with fellow PFIC member Tim aka Toejamb. He had about the same luck as us on the day (A few sardine and mackerel). Left the pier around 1:30 P.M. and were asked by a DFG fish counter near the base if he could measure and weigh our catch. Since we had about 30 minutes left on the parking meeter we obliged his request and let him measure and weigh our catch of mackerel and sardines. Was a very nice fellow! Left about 2:00 P.M. enjoying the great eye candy which was abundant all the way out of town. Great day of fishing with Brian. A few pictures below.