smokehound
07-18-2007, 09:34 PM
Well, as usual i fished this area alone, met some nice people that gave me some bait :) One guy gave me the rest of his anchovies, another guy gave me his squid.
Ive got to say that this was the roughest pier day ive ever had.
Usually i catch hundreds of topsmelt and jacksmelt in an 8 hour fishing session. I only caught two topsmelt, and a grunion (released)
Sadly the prices at the pier are evidently prone to inflation, hell let me rephrase this.. price gouging. On june 30th, during the grunion run, lugworms were eleven dollars. Today they were eight dollars.
And for some weird reason the manager of the bait shop was very insistant on targetting barracuda.
Well anywho, it wasnt a bad day at all, despite the poor catch.
I saw hundreds of dolphins everywhere, and even a bald eagle, which i suspect is from the catalina island breeding pair.
With all these signs, im sure this fall will be an epic fishing season.
So ze total was
1 mackerel, 2 topsmelt, and one Grunion. The mackerel wasnt even pan sized :lol: The frozen mack i bought was bigger.
Fishing alone sucks sometimes ._. Especially when you cant have someone watch your stuff while youve got to pee, catch sand crabs, etc.
Ive got to say that this was the roughest pier day ive ever had.
Usually i catch hundreds of topsmelt and jacksmelt in an 8 hour fishing session. I only caught two topsmelt, and a grunion (released)
Sadly the prices at the pier are evidently prone to inflation, hell let me rephrase this.. price gouging. On june 30th, during the grunion run, lugworms were eleven dollars. Today they were eight dollars.
And for some weird reason the manager of the bait shop was very insistant on targetting barracuda.
Well anywho, it wasnt a bad day at all, despite the poor catch.
I saw hundreds of dolphins everywhere, and even a bald eagle, which i suspect is from the catalina island breeding pair.
With all these signs, im sure this fall will be an epic fishing season.
So ze total was
1 mackerel, 2 topsmelt, and one Grunion. The mackerel wasnt even pan sized :lol: The frozen mack i bought was bigger.
Fishing alone sucks sometimes ._. Especially when you cant have someone watch your stuff while youve got to pee, catch sand crabs, etc.