Recent content by Ken Jones

Congratulations Snookie.

Some old pictures — the piers have always been crowded. Pine Ave. Pier in Long Beach in the '60s Redondo Beach Pier 1923 Huntington Beach Pier in the 1930s The Newport Pier when I fished it in the '60s — notice no railing

Snookie, I can see trying the large lizardfish for food but many of the lizardfish at the piers are tiny about the size of a topsmelt, hardly enough food to even give it an try. But, a good size for bait.

I went back and looked at my records and show good numbers of lizardfish in 1994, 1999, 2020 and 2023. I show BIG numbers in 2010, 2014, and 2015 with 2013 showing BIG BIG numbers all along the coast.

The third book I am working on is called (and this title will probably change) "A Cookbook for California's Inshore Anglers." The subject is lizardfish and until I have a chance to get down south and catch some of the lizardfish that seem to be hiitting all across SoCal piers, I'm not sure the...

Nice catch.

Thanks for the report.

Pretty similar to my feelings and like you it's one reason I've pretty much given up on fishing the partyboats.

Thanks for the input but I have a friend working on this.

Thinking this may be the cover of one of my new books. What do you think?

Fun times!

Congratulations! What a great day you had on the corbina; never caught that many in a day myself. And, great to see you got the younger anglers out; I aways love that.

By Ed Zieralski San Diego UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER September 29, 2007 Granddaughter Serena Jones Results of the Fifth Annual IGFA Young Anglers Tournament: Over at Shelter Island Pier yesterday, 70 young anglers ages 6 to 15 competed in the points tournament (all fish released) sponsored...

Goleta Pier 2003

Sometimes the piers can get crowded. Two pictures at the Santa Monica Pier and an old picture at the Pacifica Pier by friend and former Fish and Game Department member Paul Gregory. Why so crowded at Pacifica? Because it was an unbelievable year, one that saw as many as a thousand salmon caught...