Fishing remained excellent this week with an abundance of tasty rockfish filling anglers’ sacks. Lots of vermillion rockfish, along with a variety of other bottom grabbers, continued to be the rule for Long Beach-based boats.
Pam Sharp, of Torrance, was on board the Outrider out of 22nd Street Landing in San Pedro over the weekend. They headed to San Nicolas Island where fishing was fantastic.
"We pulled limits of lingcod—no monsters, but nice quality fish with limits of rockfish, and lots of nice sheephead and whitefish,” Sharp said.
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The Freedom, also out of 22nd Street Landing, saw similar results at San Clemente Island. Anglers caught limits of rockfish and several nice lingcod.
On Wednesday morning, the 14 anglers on the Patriot out of Newport Landing caught 68 sculpin, 20 sand bass, 25 perch and four sheephead.
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Redondo and Marina del Rey are also on a rockfish roll, providing anglers with plenty of rockfish and a shot at a lingcod or two.
Quick bites
- Fishing 100 miles from Magdalena Bay on his private boat Monday, Capt. Steve Lassley reeled in 60 striped marlin in 6 hours and hooked more than 50 of the majestic billfish, which he described as “big stripers, with four [weighing] around 200 pounds.”
- Bradley Parr, 12, of San Juan Capistrano caught a fat, 31-pound halibut on Sunday after he participated in the Dana Wharf Free Kids Fishing Clinic. Parr was not entered in the Dana Wharf Halibut Derby, but he gets bragging rights for a flatfish.
