Fresh Los Angeles Fishing Reports

Took our repeat client and his son out on a family outing to the island. Started off the day catching and releasing some nice calico bass, and then worked our way up the backside. After finding somr good conditions and marking fish on the sonar, we set up anchor and chummed live bait while flylining. With a little patience, we were rewarded with 4 good grade yellowtail!

Went out for a half day trip today, and was rewarded for our hard work and landed a nice califorina halibut.

When on a local half day trip and landed 1 big keeper amd relave about 12 shorts. Great day and good action.

The local fishing scene is heating up, with a good variety of rockfish, whitefish, sculpin, and a few halibut mixed in! Every trip has come home this past week with enough to fill the freezer, come out on our local 4 hour or half day.

2 charters today- 6 hr charter 9am departure - caught 16 nice sand dabs, 3 makeral, 1 lizard fish. 3 hr charter started at 3pm- 3 sand dabs- smaller ones and one croaker. No sharks today. Water temp 58 Metered lots of fish that would not bite. When the fish don't bite right away this time of year with the colder water you need to move. Lots of looking all over the region to find a school of fish that is feeding. When you find the right school everyone usually hooks up. Please remember that during the spring it is hit and miss. The word fishing sometimes lives up to its name. Local Fish reports give counts on trips ranging from 1/2 day to multi day trips so it's hard to compare a local 3 hour trip vs a 36 hour trip out to distant Islands and Mexico waters. I want potential clients to know that fishing has no guarantees that the fish will feed/bite. We do our best. We track the fish with Sonar and fish finders. Mother nature decides the rest.

Water temps in the high 50"s, off and on winds and super strong currents = tough week of fishing. Whales and dolphins showed up! Marking lots of fish on the sonar but they were not biting. Sharking is still slow. This past week was small fish and not many of them. Examples this week- 16 inch Halibut, 17 inch barracuda, 18 inch white sea bass, and some 12 inch white fish, makeral and rock fish. The reports are not always going to be big fish and lots of em...it's fishing, we do our best. Mother nature plays a big part. Every day and week is different- spring bite =some great days fishing and some tough ones until the water warms up and then its on!! Good luck and good fishing everyone.