Went down to Newport and went to a public doc on Balboa Street at around 3:30 pm. Lots of nice-sized smelt, but no bass around. Few other people were catching anything. There were intermittent runs of mackerel. I kept 14 for bait. Water was a dirty greenish color with moderate amounts of debris.
Apparently some religious or activist group released a bunch of what I suspect were rockfish into the harbor along with a number of large spider crabs, as a sea lion was spotted in the channel diving and coming up with large, reddish fish, while another angler reported seeing them dumping the crabs in.
Apparently some religious or activist group released a bunch of what I suspect were rockfish into the harbor along with a number of large spider crabs, as a sea lion was spotted in the channel diving and coming up with large, reddish fish, while another angler reported seeing them dumping the crabs in.
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