Don is still fishing!

Don sent these pictures with this note; Here are a couple of pics of Alan and I this a.m. at Los Alamitos Bay.  Nice Sand Bass.

Local productive fishing!

Fishing with Don from two weeks ago....

I am fishing on Fridays now and met Doug U. the master fly fisherman of Long Beach shoreline.  He showed me his floating line with a very long leader set-up and also gave me a Ghost Minnow to copy.  I am in awe of how far he can cast and have attached a picture of him with a loaded rod.    It was so hard to cast the first time out, I only caught one little Halibut but the next Friday I caught 5 halibut and one Yellow Fin Croaker.  I am slowly getting the hang of casting the crazy thing.

This week's adventure with Don

I am still fishing Belmont Shores.  I picked up my smallest halibut ever.  Barely longer than the six inch Doug U. ghost minnow.  I must have copied it correctly because the fish are hitting it.  The water is still warm so the fish are active.

awwww.... isn't it cute!

Don says "Meet Charlie - our newest addict"

I met Charlie at the DFF meeting last week and set up plans to fish on Sat. in the a.m.  It was his first time fly fishing the salt.  He tried several of my rigs with different line weights etc.  The attached pic show his efforts in the Los Alamitos Bay.  We hit the trough between the tides and had no moving water in the Bay which meant no bass - so we switched to the ocean side.  I picked up one powerful little butt and nothing else.

Don's weekly update

I caught six little bass in Los Alamitos Bay Sat. a.m.   These bass pull hard for their size!  Then I
tried the ocean side, no action, no birds, no bait fish , no bites.

More fishing with Don!

I wrecked my camera in the salt water, and have finally got a new one that is waterproof.  I have been away on vacations and fished mid-west warm water and took grand kids fishing.

I am trying to post some pics etc. to encourage others to get the blog going. How about it everybody? 

The Surf Perch bite has slowed down, the size is good but I’m only getting a few to hand.   I switched to fishing at Long Beach till November.  The water is warm and the fishing is good.  This a.m. I got five species totaling 11 fish.  My first Spotted Bay Bass!

And they were this big......

Submitted by Don Mulder

This little perch is the best I could do for size.  Went to Newport with Larry and Ray last Saturday 2-15-14 and caught a dozen dink perch.  A couple of bigger models were LDR’s (long distance releases).  Lots of bites for the first hour.  Conditions seemed perfect but no big fish.

More Surf Fishing

 Submitted by Don Mulder

Went to North Newport on Feb. 8th.  The ebbing tide and small breakers meant easy fishing; caught 7 Barred Surf Perch by 9:30.  Six on the Scrat and one on the Krabby Patty.  The Krabby Patty has been my go-to fly but the Scrat has been out fishing it consistently.

This Saturday, Feb. 15th looks like the best tide of the month.  February is the month when the big Perch are in the surf to spawn so now is a good time to go.

Picture is courtesy of George.  My camera got wet and quit working.  I waded out way too far and got hit by a rogue wave!

Surf Fishing

Surf Fishing 

submitted by Donald Mulder

I went to North Newport this a.m (Feb 1) and met up with A.J and George.  A fast, south moving current made for difficult line control, it broke up beside the jetties which were nicely fishable.  There was a fast incoming tide and the bite turned off at approx. 8:30.  Caught seven Barred Surf Perch and one Shovel Nosed Guitar Fish using two different flies. The flies were the Sand Crab we tied at Wednesday’s class and a knock-off of Kevin Green’s Scrat.  The fish showed no preference for the flies – catching was split equally between them.

Intermediate Fly Tying Class

Sorry you all missed our Fly Tying Night this past Wednesday the 29th. Don tied an excellent Surf Crab pattern. Here it is. Enjoy!

Intermediate Fly Tying Class

Here are the flies (foam hopper and carp fly) that were demonstrated the last two weeks at DFF's Intermediate Fly Tying Demo's. Next Wednesday from 6 to 9 PM one of our members will be tying a surf sand crab. See you there and bring your tools!