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.