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[krypto99]

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[RNE228]

Looks like fun.

My only fishing in the Channels was spear fishing while Diving 20ish years ago. Last trip was on the Conception, the one that burned up a couple years ago. Was on that boat a few times, as well as their other two boats.

Was surprised the first time I dinged a Sheephead in the head and the spear bounced off...

[Snuffleupagus]

Great post despite the photos of the potato @sshole.

[hntnnut]

What make/model boat is that?

Richard

[alpha_romeo_XV]

There are no bad days of fishing - unless the boat sinks. Wait this is CG so boating accidents can serve a purpose : )

Bad days on the golf course though - those I've had a few lately.

[beerman]

Great report.. most lost halibut happen at the boat. Took my buddy to 3rd gaff swing to land my last big one…

[Fastattack]

Good times! Reminds me of the overnighters I've done on the Mirage. Never caught much except a bunch of rockfish. Those halibuts will bite your ankle. Our deckhand would take a baseball bat to them.

[beerman]

Had the skiff out yesterday out of San Pedro. 3 Skulpin, 3 keeper sized sandbass( all released) one nice 30” barracuda. Gutted and iced quick, made a great dinner. There were a few schools of them pushing up bait around the horseshoe kelp. Looks like they’ll be around awhile. Yellows should be showing up any day.

[beerman]

What did you catch the Cuda on?

[Sheldon]

One picture I forgot to add to my original post. There were millions of these things in the water. I've seen these things for years and had no idea what they were. Doing a little google-fu I think these are sea pickles?

Pyrsomes.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/pyrosome-fire-body-bloom-eastern-pacific-warm-water

From my phone, u can hold ur finger on the image and a window pops up and you can select "search image with Google lens" crop to specific part of image and it does a search based on that.....pretty useful!!