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We were crawling back home north on the 5, tail between our legs, dodging the usual San Diego Driving Academy graduates. You know the ones. Dudes trailering boats in the fast lane, brake-checkers, and guys doing 40 while FaceTiming and eating Carne Asada Fries. We were heading back from San Vicente ...

On most days, the city pond is just water and grass blending into East LA. But every so often, it hosts an event. You can tell because people start showing up early and standing around doing nothing in particular until the show starts.

The cormorants know first. They always do. They appear in ...

Thanks, I appreciate that. The fish are only part of why I go. The fishing is easy to report. The rest of the day is usually the more interesting part nowadays. There are already plenty of great reports on what worked and what didn’t and what ounce weight you used—I’m more interested in writing ...

It was a random Saturday in April where my tournament partner and I actually had the day off. Normally Saturdays start with alarms going off at ungodly hours and us finishing our sleep in the launch ramp line somewhere two hours away.

Not today.

Instead of a road trip, we made the grueling five ...

I went on an exploratory trip to check on conditions, and found some really fishable holes in North Newport to South Huntington Beach. It was late afternoon with the nearly Full Moon rising well before the Sun set and the Tide getting very low. The holes were defined by the surf disappearing into ...

Went to the Harbor for a Float Tube Session with my Buddy Ian. I have 63 years on this Harbor and have it mostly figured out. If I say they are hitting 5 inch ZMan Streakz in Mud Minnow, on a 1/4 oz Jighead and I have some if you need one, you should prolly take it. He wanted a Halibut. In early ...

Hit the Bay on an idyllic post Santa Ana Wind Day. Flat calm and glassy all day, water temperature was 60.1 in the lower Harbor and 64 in the back, by the Arches Bridge. Ian and I dropped into the lower Harbor, around 12:30pm, right next to the Balboa Pavilion and rode the outgoing Tide down the Bay ...