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Fished on Monday morning from 7:45AM-12:30PM. Used market shrimp on two hi lo setups. One long casting with size 2 Kahle hooks. Another shorter casting setup with size 6 baitholder hooks. I was casting off the end of the pier to the reef off the end. Did not see or detect any bait fish in the...

Fished the end from 7:30AM - 1:30PM. Fished two hi lo rigs on with size 2 and 2/0 Kahle hooks the other with size 4 Kahle hook and a size 6 bait holder. Bigger hook setup on a long casting surf rod caught most of the fish on this slow day. Also intermittently fished a small hook sabiki setup to...

Take with a grain of salt as the angler who reported did not catch any or provide any pictures. But he said bonito made an appearance at HB pier today

A slow day at San Clemente was accented by a few notable fish and a few big ones that got away! Started fishing at 7:30AM. Bait bite was more active than my last few trips out to the OC Piers. Very steady bite with a smaller sabiki on smelt, salema, and a few perfectly sized anchovies. I...

Haven't fished since the winter. Went back to my favorite mainland pier, San Clemente on Memorial Day. Fished the end of the pier casting out to the reef with both a long casting and medium casting setup. Fished hi-lo rigs with size 4/6 hooks on the medium casting and size 1/2 hooks on the long...

Never caught pacific pompano before. Anyone have any recent success targeting them from any of the piers in Orange County?

Fished the end of the pier at San Clemente on Tuesday casting out to the rocky bottom areas off the end of the pier. I fished from 7:15AM - 1PM. Was a tricky day for fishing. Bites were not hard to come by. I was able to get consistent, committed (fish would keep biting until bait was gone) but...

I fished Sunday and Tuesday mornings at San Clemente casting out to the reef at the end of the pier. Bite was slower on Sunday but I did manage two better fish. The quality fish were caught on my shorter casting setup. I bought a Shimano Baitrunner 8000 reel to put on my Daiwa Emcast 12' Rod...

Saw a gap in the rain on Sunday morning so I headed out to San Clemente and fished the end with my new long casting setup (12' Daiwa Emcast with 4000 Shimano Bait Runner). I fished from 7:30AM to 4:30PM. Hard to tell if the bite was slower than I am used to or if my new approach causes me to...

Spend two mornings fishing San Clemente on Saturday and Sunday (1/7 and 1/8). Both days I rotated between fishing a small hook sabiki for bait, a medium casting hi lo and a long casting hi lo. By far the most productive setup was the long casting hi lo (Shimano 4000 Baitrunner paired with a 12'...

Went to Catalina for the 2nd year in a row for the New Year's Eve Gala with my parents and girlfriend. We took the 2pm ferry on New Year's Eve, stored our fishing gear at Blue Line Luggage at the Mole and headed to our hotel to rest and get ready for the gala. The event was held in the beautiful...

Fished the end of San Clemente Pier from about 7-11:30AM. Pleased with a fairly steady bite and decent variety casting out to the reef on the left side of the end of the pier. Days like this are fun but feel a little sleepy without a bigger fish hooked or landed. Used a high lo rig baited with...

Quick report. Fished the end of San Clemente casting out to the reef at the end of the pier. Fished from 7AM-11AM using hi lo with size 6 and size 8 hook and fished with mostly market shrimp and a little squid. Final catch tally for me: Calico Bass, White Perch, Rock Wrasse, 4 Blue Perch, 4...

Arrived at 6:30AM and went to the end. Fished mainly hi lo rig with size 8 and 6 hooks with market shrimp and blood worms. Bite was slower than usual perhaps dampened by the rain the day before. Also fished a bit for live bait and threw a small smelt out on a split shot rig. Most productive...

Arrived at 7:30AM and went to the end to the left of the restaurant at the end facing the shore. I hooked a decent sized white sea bass on a 20g slow pitch jig that came off at the surface of the water right at the pier. All for the best as it was not legal size. I caught a 13" sand bass on...

Started fishing around 7:00AM. I fish the left side of the restaurant at the end of the pier on the side that faces the shoreline. I was actually looking to catch mackerel but from the looks of the buckets of everyone at the end, they were not around. I noticed a young man pulled in a white sea...

Got to HB Pier around 4PM on Sunday with the intention to fish the incoming tide. High tide was around 6:10PM. Got on an intermittent mackerel bite with decent size fish. Got them on a Majorcraft Jigpara Spin, sabiki, and a carolina rig with squid. My girlfriend was fishing a hi lo rig with...

Fished the end of Huntington Beach Pier Sunday morning. Arrived at 6:15AM and fished a small hook sabiki with a 30g jipara stick bait as the weight. Caught a collection of tiny mackerel, smelt, sardines, and a small walleye perch. Also got a decent bite fishing a live smelt on a carolina rig but...

When I fish a Carolina rig with live bait to target halibut, I just cast, let the weight drop to the bottom, tighten the slack, click the clicker on my bait runner reel and wait for a strike. Does anyone do something different or more effective? Does anyone open the bail on their reel and let...

Arrive around 7AM and started fishing for bait. Bait bite was sleepier than I remember it ever being here. No Mackerel and even the smelt were shy about biting. I did catch about 7 good bait sized smelt. I fished a few on these on a carolina rig in various spots around the end of the pier. No...