And there's Koga...

Those are killer for bar hopping in Newport

Can't stand anything about duffies. I don't like their design, I don't like their drivers, I don't like the space they take up, and I despise their names. Whenever I fish the back of Huntington Harbor I get worked up thinking about the boat owners' audacity to come up with such horrible puns and proceed to stick them on the back of their little booze cruiser.

Here's about a third of the harbor. Enjoy. Or, get worked up like me.



















































If you came this far, here's some help to even your mood back out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkse4PPxkk4

Basically complete replication of yesterday. 0700 launch, less people out though. Bass and bonito weren't boiling along the wall as much as yesterday although I saw a few scattered ones. Didn't pay any mind. Just went looking for mackerel, hoping to find some real shoals of bait to drift near. Eventually found some on a drifting weed line. Basically wide open mackerel for no more than 20 minutes. Put out a float rig with a live mackerel that never got bit. At one point I watched a short WSB follow the macks on the sabiki up to the surface, cool sight. Had a few other boats join me, way too close for my sense of peace, but tried to preserve my spot until the mackerel stopped biting. Moved on but never found anything else. 9 jackmackerel, 5 chub mackerel, 2 bonito, 1 lizardfish 6 jacksmelt (released). Should be good on butterflied baits for a bit with all that.

Drove back down the wall and spied around inside LA harbor a bit. No sign of threshers anywhere. I should probably put a pin in that for a little bit...

Felt like the same amount of time as the day before, but I was done by 0930. Puddled around the harbor for another 20 minutes, just taking pictures of horrible electricity puns on the backs of duffies.

Not sure on the first. Some type of gull? Or maybe ostrich or emu?

The second probably beaver?

Amazing trip, Tom! Looks like a blast.

Sounds fishy, keep at it and you'll hang one.

...also I heard the best eating marlin is the striped marlin (per Tombo who lived in Hawaii)

Nope and nope

It's fantastic. It reminds me of mako.

We bled, gilled, and gutted right away and dropped it in the RSW. Most people don't have a big enough cooler for it or want to keep the blood and guts in to weigh it back at the docks. Damn things sit out for hours in the sun and probably tastes as you would expect.

So far out of everything I shared with people, they were all really impressed. It was even good raw.