January critters including bonefish!

[BenCantrell]

I'll lump a couple outings into one post.

01-15-2018

Fished the Ocean Beach tidepools at low tide.  Caught my first fish of 2018, an opalaye, and followed it with woolly sculpin, rockpool blenny, and spotted kelpfish.

Opaleye


Woolly Sculpin


Spotted Kelpfish


The honey hole.


Ocean Beach Pier.


01-15-2018

Pumped ghost shrimp from Mission Bay.

The pump and the haul of ghosties.


Limit of ghost shrimp.


Underwater shot of a burrow.


01-16-2018

Fishing Liberty Station for bonefish with Eli.  We caught 9 bonefish, 1 spotfin croaker, 1 round ray, and 4-5 spotted bass.  I'm really stoked to add bonefish to my lifelist!

First cast bonefish. (species #494)




Second cast spotfin croaker.


More bones.










We put in some good time before and after sunrise trying for corvina, but they didn't make an appearance.  I caught several mackerel on my LC 110 though, which was entertaining.

Next up is kayaking Mission Bay.  Maybe trolling for corvina will the be ticket!

[Pinoyfisher]

Some fun outings there Ben!!

[vdisney]

Super photography, thanks for sharing....................V

[Latimeria]

As Verne said, great photography and congrats on the bonefish!

Those tidepool critters are too much!  I might have to buy a micro-pocket rod and just have it in my glove compartment for times like that.  lol