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I've never had the opportunity to fish it. I always heard how great it once was. I think this is the best video I've seen of that period.

Fished it about 40 years ago, caught gobs of tilapia. Never fished it for corvina but it many said it was the best fishery in Southern California at the time.

Man, I need a gallon of sunny D and a corn cob pipe. I knew something was missing in my arsenal.

My dad fished it in its hayday. He said it didn’t take much to get big corvina but it wrecked havoc on his outboard.

I put my boat in there a couple of times in the early '70s, and it took me a couple of weeks to get it clean... Thank god my I/O had a enclosed cooling system... Did catch some fish though...
Butch

I remember that the corvina fishing was still good in the late 90s, early 2000s. After that, it was done. Sadly, I never got out there in time to sample any of that era's fishing boom.

I never got to experience it either. There has been a great plan in place to refurbish the sea with a pipeline from Mex. For some reason, our government won’t touch it…if and when it dries up, they say the toxins will wipe the valley out.

So cool. My parents had been there in the 60s-80s and told me stories. I never knew it held anything but corvina and tilapia, seeing all those sargo was a surprise.

I fished there as a kid, but only for tilapia. By the mid 90s I was really into fishing, but never made it back out there. One of my biggest fishing regrets is not getting a chance to fish for those corvina.

Never caught a corvina, but as a kid caught tilipia, sargo, and a croaker

foulhook wrote: Tue Aug 27, 2024 3:48 pm Never caught a corvina, but as a kid caught tilipia, sargo, and a croaker

Same with me....
Butch

Showing my age. My Dad and I trolled Heddon Hellbender Plugs there from our Owens 18 foot boat. The bottom was smooth and snag free. Every time a rod went down, it was a huge Corvina. If we could figure out where the school was, we dropped Hopkins Spoons on their heads. Again, every time the rod loaded up, Corvina. I remember all the black and white photos of us, with big grins, we would stand in buckets of water, adding ice from our metal Coleman Ice Chest to beat the 100+ temperatures. Sadly that picture book is gone. I loaned it to my Kid to show his friends and it disappeared forever.