Date: 2010/9/16
Place: San Pedro

I was able to catch this month’s fishing theme: catching a Halibut. So this time, I decided to go to San Pedro and departed from 22nd Street Landing. I went fishing with my friend Mr. “K”, who previously went to Redondo Beach with me when we couldn’t catch anything.

We departed from San Pedro and took 1 ½ hour to the fishing spot! There was no wind and the boat barely swayed so we didn’t have to worry about getting motion sickness! On this boat ride, there were only about 10 people on the boat so we also didn’t have to worry about having enough space! I was full of hope and excitement!

Unlike last time in Redondo Beach, our target fish isn’t from the surface area so we weren’t able to use the Flash Minnow. Instead, we used the Butterfly and dropped it 360ft deep underwater and waited until we got a hit.

Once we dropped the Butterfly down to the bottom, we felt couple small hits. But since the waves were going so fast the Butterfly kept streaming away. And that meant no hit. So the couple minutes we had after we drop it was all we got!!

We then changed our spot and tried again! We waited patiently for a hit… We continued getting small hits, but to pull up a fish, it was a little hard because it needed to be the right moment in time. So we gave it a little thought and we decided to pull it up right at the same time we felt a hit! In result, we caught so many! The sizes were small… but I believe out of all the people on the boat, we probably caught the most fishes. We were saying to each other, “I want to catch a bigger fish~!” with much more confidence. But of course, we just kept catching small sizes and wasn’t able to catch any big Rockfish.

This was my 2nd time fishing from the 22 Street Landing, and I learned that using the fishing technique I used last time didn’t work this time. And how you get hits from fishes and the timing of when I need to pull also differs each day!!
I wasn’t able to use the Flash Minnow this time, but I think I had an excellent experience on this fishing trip.

I will see you all next time!

Sandy
Catch: Rockfishx7
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