Dana Point Report

[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.