Ken Jones
 Posts: 9711 Location: California
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Taken from my revision on the Aliso Pier —
One of the rocky shore species that could be found at the pier was opaleye and some were pretty decent-sized fish. However, none of the pier-caught opaleye came close to matching the huge opaleye taken by a skin-diver in eight feet of water at Aliso in 1964. The monster-sized fish, one that was more than double the size of the previous state record fish, weighed in at 13.46 pounds and was 25.4 inches long. Given that a five-pound opaleye is considered huge, and that most fishery biologists at the time felt opaleye only reached about six pounds in size, it may be a freakish record that stands a long, long time.
The California rod and reel record remains a fish weighing 6 lbs 4 oz taken near Flores Creek in Malibu in 1956.
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