Montaña de Oro State Park 09-15-2013

Since I was still up in Central California with Brian after the Avila Kids Fishing Derby the day before, we decided to do some more fishing. Brian had a place he wanted to fish in mind, so off we went. We arrived around 12:30 PM and stopped fishing around 4:30 PM. Bait was squid mostly, but I did try white croaker and lizard fish with no luck. We started out fishing to on the rocks (forth pic down with girl and boy on it) to the left of the large rock / small hill in the middle. Luckily the swell was way down today, so we didn't get too wet. I caught the first fish of the day at 1:36 PM, which was a small thornback ray. Brian caught the second and last fish of the day at 1:56 PM, an 11" or so kelp greenling. At around 2:30 or so we tried to go up the big rock / hill in the middle to fish off the front of that, but with all our gear and my lack of climbing skills, we had to settle for a rock outcropping to the right of it. We tried there for about a couple hours, with no takers. Both fish were released, weather was great! Nice to fish a new place and soak in the rays :).

Night Fishing Malibu 08-22-2013

Brian and I decided to do some more night fishing since the grunion run was still going on and the moon was still almost full. No grunion spotted tonight either, but fishing was pretty good even thought there was a ton of crab around chomping on our bait (Brian caught and released two nice sized rock crabs). We arrived at a little after 7:00 PM and fished the incoming tide until a little after high tide (5.32') when we left around 11:15 PM. Bait was squid all night. Brian caught two small grass rockfish and a small calico bass and I caught two small grass rockfish all before 8:00 PM (only one picture taken of the bunch since I was again in the middle of the ocean standing on a rock). I caught the rest of the fish starting with a nice sized sargo at 9:47 PM, then a small leopard shark at 10:28 PM and finishing out with a thornback ray at 10:42 PM. Another nice night of fishing in Malibu, all fish caught were released.

Surf Fishing Malibu 08-06-2013

Brian and I decided to do some night fishing. We arrived at our spot at around 7:00 PM, which gave us about an hour and a half before it would be dark to fish (a great time to fish, I try to do it and early morning sunrise fishing as often as I can). We were fishing the incoming tide till 9:30 PM. Fishing was somewhat slow, but we both caught fish. I caught the first fish of the day with a small leopard shark at 7:21 PM. Brian got in on the action at 7:52 PM pulling in a new species for him, a small horn shark. I caught the next fish, two hours later, which was another small leopard shark. Brian finished out the catching with a small thornback ray at 11:11 PM. We left shortly after that. All fish released, bait was squid.

Jetty Fishing Ventura Harbor 08-09-2012

Flannery and I decided to hit up a jetty we have had decent luck at in the past for a short fishing outing. We arrived at the jetty around 9:30 AM and proceeded to the end. Along the way a nice fellow fisherman gave us a bunch of fresh dead anchovies. We both started out with this for bait and did not get anything. We kept getting bites, but it is hard to keep those things on your hook if you do not have thread with you. I had dropped mine down a deep hole upon arrival, so that kinda sucked, lol. We also tried squid and I tried perch, mackerel, queen fish, bull head and shrimp. I caught one small thorn-back ray on squid and lost something that felt fairly large when I was reeling in my last cast and thought I was just snagged...a few head shakes later and I realized a tad too late I had a fish and it went into a rock or something. After pulling from different angles for about 5-10 minutes my 40 pound test finally broke. Oh well, next time! No pics this time, waves were too big and we were getting splashed a lot.

Redondo Jetty 12/26/2011

Hit up the big Redondo jetty with Brian from about 10:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. for a big ole skunk. Used Squid & Market Shrimp for bait. Fished about half way up the jetty on the ocean side. Brian was also skunked. Only think I saw caught all day was a medium sized Thornback Ray by an Asian fellow just North of us.

Malibu Pier 10/20/2011

Hit up Malibu pier today for a short session with my fishing buddy Brian (about 7:00 P.M. to 10:30 P.M.). Hooped for lobster and fished for bait with sabikis tipped with macs / squid. Nothing in the hoop, but caught probably 30 or so macs between the two of us for winter bait as well as a small bass and a few lizard fish. Brian also caught a small round stingray (could have been a thornback ray, didn't look that close). There was bait everywhere and the bioluminescence was crazy (it was like watching a fireworks show in the ocean). We thought for a while that we got locked in because they closed the gates, but luckily it was not locked.