Great Day At Balboa Pier

[legacy1]

Hooked up with RayO at 6 a.m. and headed off to enjoy a day of pierfishing. The weather was overcast and cool with light winds. There was a lot of bait fish in the water from the surf to the end of the pier, smelt, sardines and queenfish.

Can you see baitfish?


We caught some smelt on the sabiki and here was the first catch:

13" shortie


Then a fat yfc or three on live smelt:




This short was about 15" and unfortunately had a split tail probably from the net...sorry!


I went to the end and caught some mackerel on squid and hooked up this prize:


It was a great multi-species day. The only bummer was the split tail halibut.

[supasportkid]

great job on the pier, nice variety

[GOTFISHUES]

a lizard fish, interesting, i just caught one at harbor island last week.

nice mixed bag, good luck on the flatties

GOTFISHUES

[Troutman65]

Nice day on the peir. Thanks for the report and pics.

[Badfish2]

Sabiki is definitely the way to go.. awesome job

[flyngby]

Looks like I need make a trip out to the pier next time I take the Boat into the harbor to make some lively baits for free!!!!!!!

Thanks for the report and variety of catches. Has been awhile since I caught the Lizard!!!!

Steve

[megafisher94]

sounds like a good day,
ps. how do you guys fish the sabiki??? i have a #14 one that i use on the surface for smelt, is that the way to go???