With the water looking great last week, made a quick late morning trip Tues 8/29 to Balboa after quick morning hike in Irvine. Pier was swamped with red tide bands, tide still receding. Micro-smelt in the water, nothing chasing it and nobody catching anything on the end.
Ran quick over to...
Tried again on Fri before storm, similar situation except:
* Water was VERY clear
* Not even smelt being caught
* Only tiny lizard fish being caught near surface on sabikis with varying feature sizes (bait to mack/bonito sizes)
Tried all corners of end: LC110, splasher, jig + feather sabiki...
Balboa is still damaged from Winter storms, cross-beam still dragging into water under Ruby's trash bin corner, creaking as it moves with the swell, anyone hear anything about it's repair?
Fished then incoming tide starting 5p.
Wind and swell were moderate, water was murky with clouds of murkyness in the current, sunny so could see the large numbers of micro-smelt hugging the pier like last week. Worked lures on all 4 sides of the end. Few anglers, but spread out in all...
Maybe you should find a Vegan fishing Forum? Those fish have already been prepared 3 different ways for consumption. What does size matter? Really an ignorant unqualified question. That's my opinion.
Maybe you should keep your unqualified opinions directed to people who take undersized fish, or...
Went on a tide-shift exploratory Wed evening arriving about 5p to sporadic rain and boils on micro smelt. Tossed a LC 110 and a die 3 kroc for not, finding some traction with splasher rig. But only interested during the boils.
Super tiny but already 2 sizes and I saw a couple boiling fish that...
Artificials all-the-way! Especially visual interaction fishing like fast retrieve in clear water or surface feather or plugs, so entertaining. Sometimes bait is a necessity and just a more productive option for most species.
The regs are the regs, but actually they are really stupid for Bonito, pigeon hole policy making at its best. They are fast-growing migratory pelagics with massive breeding numbers. There is nothing sport fisherman in CA could do to harm their numbers, it all happens South of the border and we...
Yeah the bait bite was crazy Thu AM 10-12, but they were not picky, so mush sardine that they were biting and being snagged by jigs, you could throw the ignored jig back out with the sardine and get bit within 10 sec. They devoured even the fattest sardines! A slow pick on croc or jigpara and...