Dana Point Report

[JohnMckroidJr]

Kudo's Dave -- for making it out and reporting! Fish or no fish, let's keep the sport alive by sharing our participation

[govomit]

... fried sardines are delicious !

[vincentek9]

thanks for the report. it seems all of these storms rolling through have constantly messed up the bite in both fresh and salt water. And have you considered taking sardines home and freezing them to use as bait later on? I know dead dines don't work so well for the halibut here, but it makes good chum and i think it works on misc bass and bigger rockfish.

[PapaDave]

I hit up DP yesterday, for the first time ever, at least for me, there wasn't anyone manning the bait receiver. I waited around for about 45 minutes thinking he was getting something to eat, but no show, and I didn't see the boat they use either. Oh well, I brought a sabiki I keep in the box so I figured I'd head out and see if I could catch a mackerel or two. No go there, but in that attempt I did get a sculpin and a short sand bass. The wind picked up a lot and it got rough so in I went.

On a side note, the water was cold and real dirty. And the water was acting weird, there where areas where the chop was bad and a few yards away it was a better, kind of like there was something intercepting the chop to some degree. There was also a green streak in the water running pretty much on top of the pipeline. Strange things going on out there...

[jruiz]

Originally Posted by PapaDave

I hit up DP yesterday, for the first time ever, at least for me, there wasn't anyone manning the bait receiver. I waited around for about 45 minutes thinking he was getting something to eat, but no show, and I didn't see the boat they use either. Oh well, I brought a sabiki I keep in the box so I figured I'd head out and see if I could catch a mackerel or two. No go there, but in that attempt I did get a sculpin and a short sand bass. The wind picked up a lot and it got rough so in I went.

On a side note, the water was cold and real dirty. And the water was acting weird, there where areas where the chop was bad and a few yards away it was a better, kind of like there was something intercepting the chop to some degree. There was also a green streak in the water running pretty much on top of the pipeline. Strange things going on out there...

I camped at Doheny over the weekend and birds were diving the whole time in the vicinity of the pipe and just beyond casting distance from the surf. I would've thought that bait would have been easy to make.

[jorluivil]

I was out there a few weeks ago, it took some time and effort to make bait but I did end up with enough bait to fish the entire morning, I believe I ended my day with 1 bass and a few octopus. I will probably head back this weekend and give it another try.

[PapaDave]

Originally Posted by jruiz

I camped at Doheny over the weekend and birds were diving the whole time in the vicinity of the pipe and just beyond casting distance from the surf. I would've thought that bait would have been easy to make.

I saw that as well, it looked like sardines whenever the pelicans came up, by then I was not trying to catch bait and was heading in.