Shelter Island Kid Derby 08-11-2012

Copied and pasted this report from here - PFIC Report

We arrived (Arcadian, Burger, and RedKorn to the Shelter Island Pier around 6:30 am.
Met up with Mahigeer and Richd1963 a little while later.

Was a gloomy start, and we got down to business.

Started Cutting up Squids, Shrimps, and Anchovies.



Burger, Redkorn, Richd1963, a young kid




Mahigeer and Halibut Bud


The Lines Started Forming and poles set out for the kids.




Aircraft Carrier Waltzes by.


Kids Getting ready for the Derby, Listening to the rules



Few of winning kids.

Calico


Wrasse


Yellow Fin Croaker


Opaleye


Nice Smelt



We all had a great time, Plan to do it again next year or whenever. Maybe Up North.

Thanks for everyone who showed up!

We went fishing afterwards, only Burger was hooking them up, mostly mackerals.

Would have taken more picture just was busy with other stuff, was tossing out Squido Chum every 15 minutes seems to help a tad.

Weather was Nice. Few Rays, Mackerals, Wrasse, Spotted bass, Calico's, Opaleye, Rockfishes, Halibuts. A good Varities of fish, mostly all small.
until Next time.

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.

Surf Fishing Malibu 08-07-2012

Unexpectedly having the day off, I decided to hit my Malibu spot in the morning for a bit. I only brought squid since I wanted to travel light. Baited up and sent out my first offering around 9:30 AM. Caught my first fish at around 10:50 AM which was a nice and fat 26" leopard shark (Pictured below, of course returned safely). Flannery arrived at some point and joined me. I caught two more leopard sharks (about 22" and 20" if I recall correctly) on squid and Brian got the big ole skunk on squid and sand crabs. Another lovely day in Malibu!

After fishing till about 3:30 PM we headed back to my pad  to do up some fish and chips. Filleted four rockfish from my freezer, three grass rockfish from Malibu and one vermilion rockfish from a boat trip a while back. Slice potatoes then fry in oil then egg wash, Panko and bread crumb fish, do a couple minutes a side and you are done. Good stuff!

Jetty Fishing Port Hueneme 08-05-2012

Picked up Flannery at 10:00 AM at his pad and after dropping off his woman at work in Thousand Oaks we headed to a Port Hueneme jetty. After the very long walk across sand with all our gear we finally arrived and started fishing around 11:30 AM. We stared about half way up the left part of the jetty and didn't catch anything at all. One gentleman near the base was drilling Calico Bass, one about 16" or so according to Flannery (I did not see it). I moved down to the end of the jetty around noon and he stayed in the middle till around 1 then came to the end with me. I caught one 10-11" brown rockfish (first time catching one that I recall) on frozen sardine and Brian didn't catch anything. We moved over to the other side of the jetty around 3:00 PM and I started with squid and sardine and Brian used sand crabs. Brian landed one 13" cabazon and one 9" or so grass rockfish. I also tried sand crabs after seeing his success but I did not catch anything on them. We packed it up and prepared for the long walk back around 4:30 PM both satisfied that we caught fish even though they were all released (some gave me dirty looks when I sent the brown rockfish back, lol).

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:

California Piers I Have Fished in My Lifetime

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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: