Recent content by sbbrett

In the summer, youth sailing camps are using the pier and lower floating dock as their headquarters, so not much area to fish when they are around...

this legal lease agreement says "The pier is open to the public for recreational purposes during daylight hours only" See exhibit C. Lease is for ten years starting in 2019. A call to the Pebble Beach Legal Dept. would clear it up. Beach Club members and youth yachting camps might want to frown...

Hi Ken. I work at Pebble Beach and see that pier nearly every day, and haven't seen anyone fishing off it for some time, maybe a couple years. The parking area is designated as "coastal access" and it may be possible that Pebble Beach/Beach Club has privatized the pier as their own, allowing for...

Between Gualala and Point Arena there are a few public beach access parking areas, but I think they may charge for day use nowadays. Hearn Gulch, Schooner gulch/beach, etc. Also Gualala Point Regional park has a big beachfront where the Gualala River enters the ocean, but I have never fished it...

Awesome photos and story! Thanks for sharing

My cousin is a BLM biologist and helped do the restoration work on Lassen Creek, and the subsequent fish surveys. The creek has been doing wellin past years, though Goose lake has been dry for some time. We all need a good winter

I am not a challenge hunter, but by chance I am close. I grew up in Mendocino/Sonoma area, but family has property up in Modoc. Of all species that I have never caught or targeted, it is the coastal cutthroat. A species I did not grow up far from. I just never fished for them, but I will at some...

I misspoke: Warner Lakes Redband trout, not Warner Mountains. They are mostly in Oregon, but can be found in Dismal Creek and Twelvemile Creek on the Oregon border

Goose lake redband pictured, Lassen Creek, Modoc. Not pictured is the most rare Warner Mountain redband, maybe the hardest to find of the California Heritage trout list. I haven't got one of those yet

thanks for Eastern Sierra info, totally new to me

On topic of redband trout, I have caught many goose lake redband trout from lassen creek, east of Goose Lake. And the Warner Mountains are my favorite in California, have been fishing up there since I was a child.

Golden trout from South Fork lakes in Golden trout wilderness, also look for Long Lake, beautiful and lots of Golden hybrids. The pure Golden trout are in little Golden creek off kern River, quite a hike to get to...

Neat trip, and nice report fish ninja. I fished up there for the first time in July(I am more experienced in the Lassen/Modoc/Northern Sierras), and had great success for golden trout in the Cottonwood lakes basin (highly recommended for a backpacking trip to find golden trout). Then we car...

I was caught thinking of the person that introduced to me to this site, 20 years ago, Mr. Boyd Grant. I met him while fishing the Goleta Pier, while I was attending UCSB. We had many fun conversations on the pier and shared some nice hookups. Today, I was looking towards Big Sur and recalled...

Yeah, take a day or two and go to Point Arena. Good fishing, nice small town with enough amenities. I am not a super technical fisherman, I just use size 1/0 hooks, with chunks or strips of squid. Frozen shrimp are good too. You will be sure to find striped surfperch on the pier, and hopefully...