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Monday, May 19, 2014
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 ;).
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Full Moon Fishing Malibu 05-14-2014
Wanting to take advantage of the full moon and good rising time (rose 12 minutes after sun set / 15 minutes or so before last light) I headed to my favorite local fishing city Malibu, CA My regular fishing buddy Brian was busy, so Alisa, my wife, joined me so I would not have to fish alone. We arrived a little before 8:00 PM, low tide was a +1.31' @ 3:21 PM, high tide was a +5.72 @ 9:30 PM and bait was squid.
Fishing was very very slow all night despite the seemingly great fishing conditions. I moved up and down the coast trying spot after spot looking for a hungry fish or two, but didn't have any luck landing anything most of the night. I had three lost hook ups, one of them was a big ole cabazon that got off about 10' from shore (I could tell by how it bit and came in)...grrr. The last lost hook up came at the farthest North spot I had tried all night, so right before leaving, thinking I had found where they had been hiding, I made one final cast into the same general area and...what do ya know, a few minutes later I was reeling in my first and only fish for the night, a nice 11" or so grass rockfish, which was promptly released to get bigger after a pic or two. Ahh, nice to catch a fish on the last cast although I always wish it was the first cast because that usually bodes well for fishing the rest of the trip; but sometimes you just gotta take what ya can get and be happy with it :). Headed home without a skunk on my back at around 1:00 AM. Slow night of fishing, but still better than sitting at home wasting time on something less fulfilling.
Oh and the last pic is a motion shot of one of the nice boo boo's I got from falling +/- 4' while moving around on wet, sandy rocks in the dark while wearing vans which were also wet and sandy and really do not have the best grip to begin with since they are a bit dated, lol. Time to invest in some better fishing shoes :).
Fishing was very very slow all night despite the seemingly great fishing conditions. I moved up and down the coast trying spot after spot looking for a hungry fish or two, but didn't have any luck landing anything most of the night. I had three lost hook ups, one of them was a big ole cabazon that got off about 10' from shore (I could tell by how it bit and came in)...grrr. The last lost hook up came at the farthest North spot I had tried all night, so right before leaving, thinking I had found where they had been hiding, I made one final cast into the same general area and...what do ya know, a few minutes later I was reeling in my first and only fish for the night, a nice 11" or so grass rockfish, which was promptly released to get bigger after a pic or two. Ahh, nice to catch a fish on the last cast although I always wish it was the first cast because that usually bodes well for fishing the rest of the trip; but sometimes you just gotta take what ya can get and be happy with it :). Headed home without a skunk on my back at around 1:00 AM. Slow night of fishing, but still better than sitting at home wasting time on something less fulfilling.
Oh and the last pic is a motion shot of one of the nice boo boo's I got from falling +/- 4' while moving around on wet, sandy rocks in the dark while wearing vans which were also wet and sandy and really do not have the best grip to begin with since they are a bit dated, lol. Time to invest in some better fishing shoes :).
Friday, February 7, 2014
Surf Fishing Malibu 02-07-2014
Being bored and not feeling like doing much I decided to take a quick trip to Malibu, CA to do some surf fishing. I arrived at 11:43 AM, low tide was a +0.7' @ 11:08 AM and high tide was a +2.73' @ 6:36 PM. Bait was squid as always.
Fishing was pretty slow, but I did manage to catch one fish at 1:16 PM which was a 27" Leopard Shark, which was of course released since the minimum size to keep a Leopard Shark is 36" to keep. No action other than that. I packed it in and headed home at 2:40 PM, happy I had at least caught something during my short outing and, as always, refreshed from being at the beach.
Fishing was pretty slow, but I did manage to catch one fish at 1:16 PM which was a 27" Leopard Shark, which was of course released since the minimum size to keep a Leopard Shark is 36" to keep. No action other than that. I packed it in and headed home at 2:40 PM, happy I had at least caught something during my short outing and, as always, refreshed from being at the beach.
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