6 Pack Trip with Redkorn (Lobster)

I copied and pasted the below from my friend Redkorn's report. Caught a ton of fish, no lobster.

We went out of SP for a short notice bug hunting trip. Met up with Burger around 5:28pm. Made our way down to the dock and put the gear away. Waiting on the others, Burger fished, While I was looking for bait fish around the dock.

With the lost, late along with a local motive bridge down. It took us about an hour to out of the bay. We started Test set's And fished.

Long story short. I took a 20min nap to wake up the plotting of which a magic marker would be use. Fishing was great!!! Hooping was bust, Mixed crabs, Seal stuck in net, No lobster.

Still fun, Sober fun since there was a 18 pack left alone.

Good times with random people and Burger. 

Here are the fishing details.

Bait-Bonito!!!

It worked so well that most didnt use other bait's.

It's back strap wroked best for the hook.
Stiff,oily and easy to cut.

My (Redkorn, but mine as about the same) count with C&R

10-15 sculpin Biggest was alittle over 2.lbs

3-Rockfish Biggest was about 1 1/2. lbs

4-Bass Biggest was about 3.lbs


Fishing died down around 4am

Long beach Breakwall (Middle) 

Pics of the catch I brought home:

Jetty Fishing Ventura and Port Hueneme 07-14-2012

So decided to hit up a jetty my friend Brian and I had previously fished since there were legal white sea bass caught off of it earlier in the week. We hoped they would still be around, but knew that was not likely. We arrived at around 10:00 AM and proceeded to the end of the jetty. After getting set up we both cast around for a while using squid. After about 10 minutes Brian decides to try a hole I had found previously and dropped his offering down between the rocks. Almost immediately he brings up a small (7" or 8") sculpin which he returned to get bigger. After casting around for a while longer I decided to break the skunk and dropped my offering in the hole and pulled up a small (8" or 9")grass rockfish which was returned to grow. Nothing else after that. We packed up around 1 which was about an hour after low tide and headed to a new spot in Port Hueneme we had been wanting to try.

Got to the new spot around 1:30 or so and after chatting with a few other fisherman we went to the end. Place looked very very fishy so I was hopeful. Got lots of taps but nothing that stuck at the first spot. Water was VERY deep there, deeper than most piers I have been to. Moved over to a different spot on the jetty at around 3:30 which had a ton of structure...probably too much, lol. I got rocked while taking a picture and by the time I was able to real in the bastard had took me into a hole or something. After trying to work em out for about 10 minutes I just snapped the line. Nothing else after that but we did see a seal get a huge fish (looked over 3') just out of casting distance.

All and all a great day! Kinda light on the fish, but it was nice to fish a new location. I also discovered that the "jumbo" squid I bought at Ranch 99 for $0.99 a pound worked just fine for fishing. Have to go back and grab some more while it is on special.

Clean-up and Fishing Redondo Breakwall 04-22-2012

Met up with Mahigeer at the foot of the jetty around 11:45 and he had already picked up two bags of trash. Shortly thereafter we proceeded to about 1/4 of the way up the jetty and I fished the outside for a while using market shrimp and cut sardine as bait. Got a few taps, but nothing stuck. Mahigeer poke poled the inside of the jetty for a while for the same results. I then moved over to the inside and dropped my bait in between rocks and kelp (tried squid, crab, mackerel and sardine. Crab seemed to work the best). First drop I got an almost immediate hit and I saw it happen! It looked like a small bass. After moving around dropping the bait here and there I finally got a small sculpin (8-9" or so) on a crab knuckle. Mahigeer was casting lures at this point but did not get anything. We picked up another bag of trash on the way out at around 3:00 P.M. and I picked up some weights Mahigeer made for me.

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.

10/12/2011 Redondo Finger Jetty

Fished the small jetty just North of the short pier (in the harbor) for a few hours with my fishing buddy Brian. Pretty slow night, I caught one small sculpin and Brian caught one small rockfish. Nothing in my crab / lobster net.