Originally Posted by
etucker1959
I have such fond memories of Bonita in the 1970's. I caught my first one off the bridge at Seal Beach, near where Marina Sport fishing is today. The half day boats use to talk about catching the 3B's in the Summer time. Santa Monica Bay was just a magnet for them. Half day boats, all the piers and the king of them all was Redondo King Harbor. It's too bad, when their canned it's hard to tell them apart from tuna. Which caused their demise off the California Coast, you can still catch the very large models offshore at places like the Cortez Bank. Catalina Island in certain years does get a run of the smaller size Bonita and just a tease of the past, a few still come back to King Harbor.