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I have been surf fishing Alamitos Bay for years.. If I wanted to catch fish, that's were I would go... Never failed with great quantities and variety.. I think I've caught about 30 species there... The last few years they have been building berms to protect the houses for flooding at high tides... They do this on both sides of the Peninsula... When they aren't doing this, they groom the beach all of the way out into the water to make it pretty... There used to be an abundance of ghost shrimp and assorted worms on the inside and sand crabs and worms on the outside of the Peninsula... Now the sand is dead... Nothing lives in that constant moving by the bulldozers... I keep trying to find fish, but they have nothing to eat, so have moved on or just don't exist anymore.. I never used to get skunked there, but lately it has become the norm.. I know they need to protect the homes, but I think they are over doing it... I really hate to see this great fishery die, but it is/has...
Butch

Bummed about your favorite beach, Butch. I hope you find another tanker Corbina at your other favorite beach in a few weeks

Mike M wrote: Fri May 02, 2025 7:03 am Bummed about your favorite beach, Butch. I hope you find another tanker Corbina at your other favorite beach in a few weeks

Thanks Mike... Me too. .... There are other beaches that I like to fish as well, but it was a very productive and diverse fishery...
Butch

Reminds me of King Harbor in the early 90s.

Back in the day, Edison had a plant that pumped out hot water into the middle of the harbor. It could be the middle of January and the water in the harbor was warm. Stories of people catching big yellowtail off the small pier where common.

But, the treat was the schools of 5 to 10 pound bonita that used to maraud the bait. It was the first time a fish broke my spinning rig, and where I learned how to properly fight a fish.

More than a decade ago, Edison shut down the plant and now only cold water gets pumped out. Plus, they've closed off all the access to the jetties as well, for 'safety.' If you catch a 12 inch bonita nowadays, you've caught a whopper.

A shame Butch what's happened with your fav spot and to other fisheries in Calif. and coastal/offshore. Not like it was back in the day of our youth.
Hope things can get turned around for Alamitos.

Perch killer wrote: Sat May 03, 2025 11:01 am A shame Butch what's happened with your fav spot and to other fisheries in Calif. and coastal/offshore. Not like it was back in the day of our youth.
Hope things can get turned around for Alamitos.

Probably not gonna get turned around… Those houses do get flooded, so they’ll keep pushing the sand around… It is a shame, because it’s only been happening the last couple of years… It’s kinda like a mini San Diego Bay… If they tore up all of the shoreline, how would the SD fisheries suffer?..
Butch