I grabbed my big plugging rod armed with a 7 inch storm swimbait and was determined to catch a big flatty. The tide was high, so I ran to the rocks to give it a look see. What I saw was a flotilla of boats shooting out the inlet! I swear 50 must have launched at the same time and everyone was jockeying for position to get outside the inlet first.
I cast the big swimbait around for a few hours and finally got slammed followed by a hard 1-2 second run! Then nothing... I'm not sure if a bat ran into it, or it was a real gamefish, but it had some power and slammed the swimbait. There were no telltale marks on the bait, so I just kept slinging it.
I switched over to the bass stick and finally found a willing participant.
I had some clam guts that I brought from the big Pismo's I got a few weeks ago and decided to critter fish, KenT style. Well not really as I don't own hooks that small even for my trout gear! lol
It was wide open critter fishing. Ended up with 10 bass and the bass slam....
I got a few turd rollers, but a lot more calico.
There were monster garibaldi everywhere, but none wanted to take the bait. I did catch a dozen of these small blue-eyed beauties though. Opal Eyes were everywhere!
It was a bummer that I didn't get any sculpin or weird rock critters, but I did feel accomplished for the day.
Thanks for reading and I have to post something as there are no big fish to be found anywhere. I'll take whatever I could get! LOL
Until next tide!
