Both figures would place Newport at a mid-point range in comparison to other Orange County piers. In regard to fish per hour, Newport trails the piers at Huntington Beach, San Clemente and Seal Beach (with Balboa and the small pier in Dana Harbor ranking lower). As far as points per hou...
Fishing Piers Southern CaliforniaSan Clemente PierPublic Pier — No Fishing License Required Sit back and imagine, if you will, the following scenes: Scene One — The hooking of a giant (black) sea bass was not that unusual given that the San Clemente Pier is one of the main piers that s...
After many years, I recently got back into fishing. I was at Possum Kingdom with friends and family last Labor Day Weekend when I grabbed one of my friend’s poles he had sitting on the bank and felt a bite as soon as I picked it up. My instincts kicked in and I set the hook a...
When it opened, this pier promised to be one of the premier piers in the entire state. It was long, providing nearly a mile of railing space, had full facilities, and it jutted out into the Point Loma kelp beds, one of the finest fishing areas in southern California. Anglers had vision...
Piers:Often hooked at southern California piers located near kelp beds or rocky reefs. Best bets: Oceanside Harbor Pier, Dana Harbor Pier, Redondo Harbor Sportfishing Pier, and the three main piers on Catalina island—the Green Pleasure Pier and Cabrillo Mole at Avalon (where it’s hard not ...
but it seemed pretty amazing to me. Yellowtail are one of the most prized sportfish in southern California and are commonly caught out on the party boats. They are far less common on piers. In fact, they are relatively rare to most piers. However, several of the muscular fish were on ...
Habitat:Shallow water, both oceanfront and in bays. Piers:Virtually every pier in the state with a sand or mud bottom seems to see this pesky little fish. I’ve caught “bullheads” at the most southern pier in the state, the Imperial Beach Pier (which sits just a few miles upshore fr...
Several years ago Snookie witnessed the capture of a 12-inch green jack (Caranx caballus, normally found from Santa Cruz Island to Peru) and two sarcastic fringeheads out at the end of the pier, fish common to southern California but fish rarely seen at such oceanfront piers. In April of...
<*}}}><—Rarely does religion come into play at the piers (unless you count an angler praying for a fish to bite). Thus, the following story intrigued me when I first heard it. On the Oprah television show one day the topic was doing good to others. Lo and behold two of the gues...