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 ;).

Surf Fishing Malibu 12-24-2013

Surf fished with Brian in beautiful Malibu, CA from 9:15 AM till 1:15 PM. Low tide was a 2.37' @ 8:17 AM and high was a 3.18' at 1:03 PM. Bait was squid as usual. Very slow day with no fish landed, but the weather and scenery were both great. Did not take many pics, so I put one of the fish and chips Brian and I did a couple days before with two grass rockfish, one cabezon and one johnny bass aka olive rockfish.

Surf Fishing Malibu 11-15-2013

Decided to do a quick afternoon trip to Malibu. I arrived at around 2:00 PM and left around 4:00 PM. Low tide was a -0.27 @ 2:05 PM and high was 3.97 @ 8:13 PM. Bait was squid, and squat was caught :). I will get em the next time!

Arrival Shot

Departing Shot

Surf Fishing Malibu 10-06-2013

Fished Malibu alone from about 5:15 PM till 9:15 PM. Fishing was super slow with not many bites and zero fish caught. Was fishing my favorite, and incoming tide (low was a -0.04 @ 4:03 PM & high was a 4.16 @ 10:07 PM) and sunset, but ended up with a good ole fashion skunk :). Was very nice out and got a couple nice shots, which are below. Sorry, no fish porn this time :).

From another day, can't remember which one, lol.

Night Fishing in Malibu 08-29-2013

Wanting to get in some fishing before a trip out of town Brian and I headed to Malibu to do some night fishing despite horrible conditions for fishing (outgoing tide and no moon). Well, the horrible conditions prevailed and we ended up getting skunked. We fished from 6:20 PM till 8:49 PM with hardly even a nibble. Bait was squid. It was nice to get the fishing in, too bad there was no catching. Oh well we will get em the next time :).

Surf Fishing Malibu - 07-30-2013

Decided I needed to fish for a little while, so I headed to Malibu to hit up one of the spots. Arrived a little before 12:30 PM and left around 3:00 PM. Fishing was DEAD, hardly any bites and zero fish caught. Squid was used for bait. It was a beautiful day out, so it was nice to be at the beach for a few hours anyways.

Fishing off the Rocks and Surf in Northern LA County - 07-21-2013

Tired of getting skunked in Malibu (four times in a row) Brian and I decided to try much further North. Bait all day was squid. We started off at Mugu Rock and fished there from about 11:45 AM to 1:45 PM. Nothing but lots of snags for the most part. Lost a few weights and hooks here. No fish.

Off to spot #2, a beach just south of Mugu Rock. Fished here from about 2:00 PM till 3:00 PM. I could not hold bottom here using my four ounce flat weights, so I was not anticipating catching anything here, and I didn't. You gotta hold bottom to catch fish most of the time. Brian tied on an eight ounce torpedo sinker and was able to hold bottom, but also did not catch any fish here. We were entertained by a seal that kept coming up on the sand next to us. Got a few videos of it and a pic :).

Spot #3 was on some rocks just South of Sycamore Canyon Beach starting at around 3:15 PM. I have fished here before, but only caught a perch here once. It looks super fishy, but to date hasn't produced much. Fishing was rough, with the waves being pretty big and crashing on the rock I started off on. I eventually had to move off of it when I almost lost one of my buckets to the waves, lol. Brian set up on higher and safer ground and fished away. I moved over to another rock for a while and we packed it in at around 5:30 PM accepting our fate of our fifth skunk in a row. At least we tried some new places and had fun in the process :).

Surf Fishing Malibu 07-19-2013

Being the gluttons for punishment that we are, despite the recent spat of skunks Brian and I headed to Malibu again in search of the recently elusive fish, lol. We fished from about 10:30 AM to 2:30 PM using squid for bait. Weather was nice, waves were big so there were lots of surfers (one of which was just wearing a two piece and was smoking hot!), not too much salad so I was hopeful for some fish......well, we didn't catch any, lol. Forth skunk in a row.

Surf Fishing Malibu 07-18-2013

Decided I didn't want to sit around the house all day, so I headed to Malibu alone for a quick fishing trip. I fished from around 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Since my normal spots have not been producing lately I decided to try another new spot. Tried the new spot for about an hour and a half. The salad was a bit thick, but not as bad as the last new spot so I gave it some time to see if I could catch anything. There was much more beach traffic on this beach, so there were at least some nice sites to be seen walking around :). Nothing at spot one, so I went to one of my normal spots to see if I could find some fish finally. Fished there for about two and a half hours for no fish. Bait was squid, as usual. Three skunks in a row :(.....still beats sitting at home :).

Surf Fishing Malibu 07-15-2013

Brian and I decided to give the night fishing another shot. We fished from 6:00 PM to 9:30 PM. This time we started off at another spot I thought might be more productive for what we were targeting, which was sharks. Started out at the new spot and only lasted about an hour there. There was just too much salad (seaweed and eel grass) in the water and our hooks were getting covered with it instantly making actually catching anything there impossible. So we moved on to spot #2, which had much less salad but also did not produce any fish, or even many bites at all. We tried squid, smelt, shad, sardine and perch for bait. Two skunks in a row :(.

Surf Fishing Malibu 07-12-2013

Decided to do some evening / night fishing with Brian in Malibu. We fished from 6:00 PM till 10:00 PM. Weather was nice, water was clean (no salad) and fishy looking....but we both got skunked :). Only bait we tried all night was squid. We each hooked up once, but both times we lost the fish when they pulled us into the rocks and would not budge.

Surf Fishing Malibu 07-08-2013

Surf fished in Malibu with Brian from about 6:00 AM till 10:00 AM. Fishing was very very slow all day. Just a bite here and there for both of us. We were using squid for bait. We were both skunked :(. Oh well, that is why it is called fishing and not catching, lol. We will get em next time.

Surf Fishing Malibu 07-03-2013

Surf fished in Malibu with Brian from about 10:45 AM till 3:00 PM. Fishing was terribly slow all day for me. Just a few bites here and there on my squid, but not much action at all. Brian did catch two small grass rockfish on squid. Slow day at the beach in the nice weather is still better than a day in the red hot valley! I'll get em the next time.

Surf Fishing Malibu 03-16-2013

Fished the Malibu spot for about 1.5 hours using squid. No bites, no fish. Short session, so I should not have expected too much. Oh well, I'll get em the next time.

Surf Fishing Malibu 03-10-2013

Fished the Malibu spot from about 12:30 PM to 3:30 PM with Brian. We both hooked up once, but both lost the fish to the kelp. Other than that just a nibble here and there. Both skunked using squid. At least it was a very nice day out :).

Jetty Fishing Ventura Harbor 01-26-2013

Hit the North Jetty of Ventura Harbor with Brian for a few hours. Started out on inside about half way down for about an hour for nothing. Then moved to last bend near end and fished another couple hours for nothing. Squid was the bait. Tough fishing, and not catching, but it happens :)

Redondo Break Wall 09-29-2012 to 09-30-2012

Met up with Redkorn, ucscrab and sector_one from PFIC at around 3:00 PM to hoop net the Redondo Jetty for lobster. Set up about 3/4 of the way to the second bend and fished at first while Redkorn caught up with ucscrab and I. ucscrab caught the only fish on the trip with a bat ray first, then a double hook up with a large sand bass on top and a small calico on the bottom. ucscrab left around 6:00 PM and then once night hit Redkorn had caught up and sector_one had arrived so we all started hoop netting for lobster. sector_one caught the only lobster on the night before he left around 10:00 PM and Redkorn and I hooped till about 4:00 AM before we packed it in and started the hike back out. No lobster, but it was great to meet up with new fishing buddies!

Surf Fishing Malibu 08-12-2012

After the long day yesterday I decided I still needed to fish a little more. My sixth trip in nine days! I only had time for a short session so I timed it to be around high tide. Got there around 3:30 PM and brought squid and anchovy for bait...also brought cheap pantiehose to keep the anchovy on the hook. Worked pretty good, but didn't get many bites on it. Fished till 6:00 PM catching nothing (Skunked). Had a few nibbles here and there, but pretty much a very slow day. Still great to be out on the water.

After getting skunked I was treated to a fabulous dinner at Sushi Iki in Tarzana. This place is very pricy, but worth every penny (especially when I am not paying, lol). My favorite dish of the night was Halibut, wrapped around duck liver and topped with caviar, VERY tasty! Also had my first every Dungeness Crab as shown below, also very tasty but almost the same as the free rock crabs I can catch.

Gonna be getting one of these soon (not this model exactly). Hope it helps my catch rate and quality.

Surf Fishing Malibu 08-04-2012

Surf fished in Malibu with Flannery while our women went to 3rd street. They dropped us off around 5:00 PM and were on their way. We set up shop on the shore. We both tried squid, sand crabs and anchovy and I think I tried perch, shrimp, mackerel and croaker as well. Fished hard till about 11:00 PM which was about 30 minutes past the scheduled grunion run. Didn't see any before we left and neither of us caught anything. Kinda sucks to get skunked, but you can't get skunked if you ain't fishing!

Only pic of the night:

Surf Fishing Malibu 07-28-2012

Decided to hit up my Malibu spot on Saturday for a nice long outing. Wife dropped me off around 7:00 AM and I was fishing ten minutes later. It was high tide of 3.06' right around 7 and a low of 2.18' was at about 11:15 AM. Second high of 5.62' was not until about 6:00 PM. Fished alone for about five hours walking out in knee deep water to a rock to cast about 40' out from shore. Had one hook up on cut grunion but lost it at the surface (must not have been hooked well). It looked to be a 10" or so rockfish. After that just a few nibbles here and there, but nothing of note. A fishing boat came in really close to shore to fish the same area I was, but I did not see them catch anything either. Brian showed up a little after noon and fished squid exclusively until we left around 6:00 PM. He got a nibble here and there as well, but did not catch anything. I tried squid, grunion (seemed to be the only thing that was getting bites today, as luck would have it I only had one), shrimp, perch and croaker for nothing. Big ole skunk for 10 hours of fishing kind of sucks, but at least there was some nice eye candy around ;).

Few pictures of area, eye candy, fishing boat and kayakers: