Island Spirit 10-28-2011

Went out to the Channel Islands on the Island Spirit 3/4 boat today. Great trip! caught my limit of salmon grouper on the first drop (limit is two), limit of rockfish pretty early on and a few sand dabs. The whole boat limited and everyone left with a full sack or a big bag of fillets. Water was calmer than I have ever seen and the temperature was perfect (I could have worn shorts). To top it off one of my buddies Chris won the JP with a huge chuckle-head and my other buddy got the fish he wanted, a legal ling cod! Great crew as always, I love this boat!

Didn't take any fish pics, but took these on the way out.

Redondo Horseshoe Pier 10/22/2011

Met up John / Redkorn at Redondo for some Lobster hooping and fishing from about 4:30 P.M. till 1:00 A.M. No lobsters in the hoop, just one medium to large female spider crab, which I tossed back because I did not want to deal with cooking it and it is difficult to tell when female spider crabs have eggs. Fishing wise, got 30-40 small to large macs for winter bait using a sabiki tipped with mac and squid. Lost quite a few to the dang seals, but it was fun to watch them (light show because of the bio-luminescence). I did see quite a few poachers there with snag lines for lobsters, luckily I did not see them get anything except spider crabs...lucky for them because I would have confronted them and called Cal-Tip.

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.

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.

Ventura Pier 10/07/2011

Fished / crabbed from around 9PM to 12:30 PM with my wife's cousin from Israel (He wanted to fish here badly). Was pretty slow, but we did manage a zillion baby croakers, a few macs and one keeper sized rock crab. I tossed the crab back before leaving and kept the macs for bait.

Malibu Pier 10/06/2011

Fished for a few hours with Brian. Was pretty slow, but we did manage a few macs for bait.

Catalina 10/01/2011

Met Redkorn and Mahigeer for the lobster opener. Arrived 10/01/2011 and left 10/02/2011. Hoop netted with two flat Pormar nets. Pulled seven shorts, zero legals. Fishing wise, caught a ton of half moons, blacksmiths and black perch. Mahigeer has a great post on this trip here
My largest fish was a 15" Halfmoon, which is pictured below.