eagleeyes
08-04-2008, 08:59 PM
Grunions were scheduled to run last weekend. Planned to take my kids to local pier area to go see these grunions beach themselves. Brought my fishing rod thinking I can catch some halis or bigger fish chasing the grunions. My son's sleep time is usually 9:30pm and he waited at the beach with good ole daddy about 10pm. Kept telling him five more minutes for about 30 minutes. Didn't see a bit of any type of fish. Realized eventually it was time to go home and try to catch it on the next run. Oh well.
Went kayak fishing next day and trolled and threw swimbait for couple hours. Caught few different sized halis. Water was so clear that my son actually saw a hali swim under the kayak near the sand. He says "lets throw a bait there" and proceeded to throw a drop shot rigged berkley shad bait. And, immediately, he gets bitten by the hali!!! Sorry, I didn't take a picture of this hali but did take one for the next one which was about 24 inches.
Few minutes later, our trolling bait gets bitten by this baby... would have liked to see the grunions but catching halis more than made that up!
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m163/gokumon/P8020068.jpg
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m163/gokumon/P8020069.jpg
Went kayak fishing next day and trolled and threw swimbait for couple hours. Caught few different sized halis. Water was so clear that my son actually saw a hali swim under the kayak near the sand. He says "lets throw a bait there" and proceeded to throw a drop shot rigged berkley shad bait. And, immediately, he gets bitten by the hali!!! Sorry, I didn't take a picture of this hali but did take one for the next one which was about 24 inches.
Few minutes later, our trolling bait gets bitten by this baby... would have liked to see the grunions but catching halis more than made that up!
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m163/gokumon/P8020068.jpg
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m163/gokumon/P8020069.jpg