Capt. David Bacon-Charter Captain/PCS Senior Editor
After the Fire
May. 15 2009, 11:52 AM
May. 15 2009, 11:52 AM
The destructive Jesusita Fire and strong sundowner winds kept most
fisherfolk off the water for more than a week. Now the fire is nearly out,winds have returned to normal patterns and our focus is shifting seaward once again.
Timing is right, in terms of good fishing. Along the coast,
Halibut are moving into shallow water where bounce-ballers and live bait drifters are scoring nicely. Inside our Santa Barbara and Ventura counties harbors, kayakers and float tubers are finding willing flatties. Most are shorts, but a morning’s effort usually results in a keeper or two or three.
Coastal kelp beds are producing calicos clearly becoming more interested in putting on some weight for the spring spawning activities. Live baits are still out-producing swimbaits and surface iron. That situation reverses out at the Channel Islands however, where swimbaits and surface iron cast to boiler rocks and kelp edges are drawing savage strikes form the checkerboard bass.
White seabass are foraging in shallow water at Santa Cruz and Santa Rosa islands. Experienced boaters are cruising slowly along the shallows while peering into the water. When fish are spotted, they cast sardines to them. Each time the squid come in to spawn, the seabass move out a little deeper (60 to 120 feet) where anglers are hooking up using squid, white jigs and swimbaits.
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