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It’s been awhile since my last surf fishing in Long Beach, CA. This time I went with my friend “K” and we started to get ready before day light and started fishing right at sunrise. On this day, I decided to go fishing ambitiously from high tide to low tide until noon. The water is cloudy, but there are no winds and I felt like I just might catch some.

I handed my friend the FM110 (Metallic Sardine) and from observing the turbidity level of the water I decided to use a gold color lure. From predicting the recent trends, instead of fishing from the beach side, I started off fishing along the jetty. (During low tide, the Halibuts that are in the bank migrates offshore so it is most likely that there won’t be any Halibuts. In the other hand, during high tide there are a lot of Halibuts in the bank so there’s a better chance fishing from the beach… But this is just my theory) There are a lot of kelps by my feet when fishing from the jetty, and if you use a DD (Deep Diver) it will easily get caught up, so everybody please be carful with that! After 2 hours of fishing and right around when more fishermen started to arrive, my friend gets a bite!! By the bent of the rod, it looked like a big one!! He carefully succeeded in landing and caught a big size halibut! It was his very first Halibut!! Hoping it would be a legal size we measured it, but he barely made it… it was 22inches. My friend left early because he had work, but I didn’t want to give up!
I then started fishing at the beach side!! On this day, I was casting with a bait reel so my lure couldn’t reach the bank… I continued to fish right before noon and ended it there.

Afterwards I went to a tackle shop in Long Beach and did some business and traded fishing information. Also, this tackle shop will be creating their original surf rod for me so please stay tuned for that! They have the FM 110 in stock here as well so please come check it out!

Sandy
The Daily Flash Minnow

P.S. My new rod… Still thinking on how I want it to be.

Lucky Craft Pro Staff Brent Ehrler introduces the new Lucky Craft Smasher 125 at the 2011 ICAST show in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Lucky Craft Pro Staff Kelly Jordon introduces the Kelly-J Jr and New Colors at the 2011 ICAST show in Las Vegas, Nevada.

It was a long, hot two weeks in Montgomery; down in L.A. – Lower Alabama!
Fishing the Toyota Trucks All Star Week was a lot of fun. It was a lot more relaxed environment the last two weeks without the Angler of the Year title being on the line. The head to head format certainly added a fun wrinkle to the whole experience.
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The world’s greatest fishing show, the ICAST 2011 has ended and now back to my usual fishing report. This week, I went fishing with our new Lucky Craft employee “M” and it was her very first fishing experience. We went to El Dorado East Regional Park near our office to challenge on her very first Bass fishing.

Since it was M’s first time, I had her practice on making knots prior to our fishing day, and now we are ready to start!! The field is big so it was a perfect place to practice casting. Although there are many accidents in casting so you really need to check behind you before you throw! I mentioned this to M in the beginning and had her work on over casting for the day since it is the easiest for beginners. Since she practices OO, the casting technique is very similar to OO and just the position of the rod before throwing needs to be modified a little… M surprised me with her skills. After practicing couple casts, within an hour she quickly learned the technique and moved on to actual fishing. I had M use her favorite lure (Skeet Reese – Redemption Spinnerbait) and go around the entire pond. Unfortunately there were no catches today. As for me, I used lures that I normally don’t use such as the Sammy and Fat Smasher Mini. I continued to practice using topwater baits, but caught nothing also. From now on there will be more reports on fishing with M and I would like to patiently brush up my skills also.

El Dorado East Regional Park
http://www.longbeach.gov
This park has a lot of areas that perennial plants, bushes, and Bass favors and it is very similar to Okappari (shore fishing) in Japan. Of course there are no other obstacles and it seems like just a vast park pond, but it is a nice location for family fun.

Sandy
The Daily Flash Minnow

P.S. Next time I am planning on going boat fishing with M.

Lucky Craft Pro Staff Casey Ashley introduces Gunfish 115 at the 2011 ICAST show in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Here is a look of a store in Switzerland. It is full of Lucky Craft lures.