Surf Fishing Malibu 07-18-2013

Decided I didn't want to sit around the house all day, so I headed to Malibu alone for a quick fishing trip. I fished from around 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Since my normal spots have not been producing lately I decided to try another new spot. Tried the new spot for about an hour and a half. The salad was a bit thick, but not as bad as the last new spot so I gave it some time to see if I could catch anything. There was much more beach traffic on this beach, so there were at least some nice sites to be seen walking around :). Nothing at spot one, so I went to one of my normal spots to see if I could find some fish finally. Fished there for about two and a half hours for no fish. Bait was squid, as usual. Three skunks in a row :(.....still beats sitting at home :).

Surf Fishing Malibu 07-15-2013

Brian and I decided to give the night fishing another shot. We fished from 6:00 PM to 9:30 PM. This time we started off at another spot I thought might be more productive for what we were targeting, which was sharks. Started out at the new spot and only lasted about an hour there. There was just too much salad (seaweed and eel grass) in the water and our hooks were getting covered with it instantly making actually catching anything there impossible. So we moved on to spot #2, which had much less salad but also did not produce any fish, or even many bites at all. We tried squid, smelt, shad, sardine and perch for bait. Two skunks in a row :(.

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!