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.

Greenock Lane Jetty Fishing - Ventura - 07-10-2013

Fished the Greenock Lane Jetty in Ventura with Brian from about 11:00 AM till about 4:30 PM. Fishing was pretty slow most of the day, lots of little bites (probably walleye perch which our hooks were too big for). Brian hooked up on a nice 3.5'-4' Shovelnose Guitarfish, reeled it in and brought it up on a lower rock of the jetty. Well it then decided to flip out and broke his line on some muscles on the rock he landed it on and swam back to the ocean. So we will call it a quick C & R :). I did manage to scratch up one small grass rockfish from my secret hole somewhere on the jetty, it was about 9" long and I let em go to get bigger. Nice to beat the skunk at least :). Weather was nice, waves were big (we both got splashed a few times). No salad in the water. Both fish caught on squid.

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 07-01-2013

Surf fished Malibu with Brian from about 10:00 AM till 3:00 PM. Fishing was decent most of the day for me, I caught two 9" grass rockfish (released), a 12" grass rockfish (released) and a nice 14" Cabazon (of course released) all on squid. Brian caught one small grass rockfish on squid to beat the skunk :). Weather was great and a nice break from the scorching heat of the valley. Another great day in Da Bu!

Jetty Fishing Port Hueneme 06-28-2013

Hit up a jetty in Port Hueneme with Brian from about 11:00 AM till 3:30 PM. Arrived at the jetty and set up near the end. Started fishing with squid and chatting with another angler that was at the very end of the jetty. While my attention was on fishing a sea gull decided to take my big ass bag of squid we planned to use for the main bait all day.....grrrrrrrrr. Luckily I had back up bait in the form of sardines, smelt and shad. With my preferred bait gone, my hopes for catching fish were not high. Got small bites all day, but usually that just meant my bait was gone (hard to keep those baits on the hook). So I was skunked for the day, Brian caught a nice 13.5" calico bass on sardine which was released. Lots of bird diving action around, so I am pretty sure there was some kind of bait in the water, which could explain the slow fishing as well. No pictures till I get my new phone :(.

Surf Fishing Malibu 06-26-2013

Fished in Malibu again today with Brian. We fished from around 6:00 AM till 10:45 AM. Fishing was pretty slow for the first couple hours, but picked up around 8:00 AM or so. I caught a nice 16.5" calico bass around then. About 45 minutes later in a different spot I caught another nice calico bass that measured out to 15". A short time later I caught a small (9" or so) grass rockfish (released) and then a 11" or so black sea perch that was very pregnant (released very quickly :)). A little bit later and Brian catches his only fish for the day, a small (22" or so) leopard shark. I gotta say I love surf fishing in Malibu!