Category: Ventura Pier
Even during the current pandemic, fishing in the Pacific goes on. With the ocean water warming up over the past few weeks, the fishing has improved as well. The temperature today is a toasty 64 degrees. As you can see in the pictures above,… Continue Reading “Pacific Update”
Category: Calico Bass, Goleta Pier, Mackerel, Pacific Ocean, Santa Barbara, CA, Skate Ray, smelt, sportfishing, Stearns Wharf, Ventura PierTags: Calico Bass, Goleta Pier, Mackerel, Skate, smelt, Stearns Wharf, Ventura Pier
Ventura joined most of the rest of California in finally closing down all of its city parks to help stem the spread of you-know-what and since the Ventura Pier is part of the Parks Department, it is closed for business at least to me… Continue Reading “The Pacific Ocean Is Closed Until Further Notice”
I have not been out to the Ventura Pier, my home base, for three weeks due to a vacation at the Grand Canyon, fishing with my son in Santa Barbara, CA, a big slow down in the fishing action at my home base, and… Continue Reading ““Back” to home”
Category: Bait, fishing, fishing pole, Grand Canyon, Mackerel, Pacific Ocean, Santa Barbara, CA, smelt, sportfishing, Stearns Wharf, The Grand Canyon, Ventura Pier, wishing poleTags: Anchovies
Prior commitments, some delays in work being done on the homestead, and an appointment to a city advisory group has kept me away from fishing most of the last few weeks but when a day opened up yesterday, I decided to go over to… Continue Reading “Touching Home”
Category: fishing, fishing pole, Mackerel, Pacific Ocean, Perch, Santa Barbara, CA, Stearns Wharf, Ventura Pier, wishing poleTags: Channel Islands, Highway 101, Mackerel, Pacific Ocean, Perch, Santa Barbara, Ventura Pier
After ending my latest quest to catch something while surf fishing, I needed to stay on the Emma Wood State Beach side of town for a few hours so I could run an errand in the afternoon. Instead of just prowling around all the… Continue Reading “Later that day…”
Category: Bat Rays, Dungeness Crab, Emma Wood State Beach, Mackerel, Pacific Ocean, Shakespeare ATS 350, Shakespeare Contender, Shimano Saguaro rod, smelt, Ventura PierTags: croaker, Dungeness Crab, Emma Wood State Beach, Mackerel, Shakespeare ATS30, Sharks, Shimano Saguaro rod, smelt, Ventura Pier
After my amazing day yesterday, I decided to visit Stearns Wharf again to see if the fishing is really is as good as it has been the last two times I was there. I can now say that it is since this time I… Continue Reading “Stearns Wharf III: Big Mac Attack!”
Category: Bait, fishing, fishing pole, fog, Mackerel, Pacific Ocean, Shakespeare Contender, sportfishing, Stearns Wharf, Ventura Pier, wishing poleTags: fishing, fishing pole, Mackerel, Stearns Wharf, Ventura Pier
When I moved from Phoenix, AZ to Santa Barbara, CA in 1979, Stearn’s Wharf was not open to the public. It was closed due to a huge fire that roared through it in 1973. It finally reopened in 1981 but by that time, the… Continue Reading “Stearn’s Wharf I: What a MORNING!”
Category: Bait, Calico Bass, fishing, Goleta Pier, Mackerel, Pacific Ocean, sportfishing, Stearns Wharf, Ventura PierTags: Calico Bass, fishing, Phoenix, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Ventura Pier
As a 5 to 7-year-old kid (which were the years I spent fishing with grandpa or just talking about fishing with him), I wanted to catch a fish every time my bait hit the water while not understanding how unrealistic that was. Grandpa told… Continue Reading “Advice from Grandpa: Patience is the best bait (this worked today)”
This is not exactly how grandpa said it since he was a “little Irishman from Minnesota” as he’d always told everyone and big words were not part of his plain spoken vocabulary, but I understood what he meant when he told me that not… Continue Reading “Advice from Grandpa: Offer a smorgasbord”
Category: Bait, Bat Rays, fishing, Grandpa Duffy, Mackerel, Pacific Ocean, sportfishing, Ventura PierTags: Bait, Bat Ray, Mackerel, Salmon, Squid, Ventura Pier
Call me Captain Ahab. I have been in search of the white whale since last week when one got away due to old equipment that has now been replaced and though I didn’t catch a whale, the 42”, 30 to 40-pound Shovelhead shark pictured… Continue Reading “Shark Bait: It’s Good to be Home”
Category: Bait, California White Croakers, fishing, fishing pole, Goleta Pier, Mackerel, Perch, Port Hueneme Pier, Sharks, Ventura PierTags: croaker, Mackerel, Sharks, smelt
