Dana Point - 7/7

[Beachem]

Jackie & I fished Dana Point for the first time on Saturday.

Meet one of the locals when we were rigging up and asked him for the areas where the catching is going on. He was nice enough to give us some general areas to fish (Thanks!!). So off we went.

Paddled out of the harbor and fished off the Doheny beach area for a while.

We meet up with a father and son fishing from Long Beach. None of us were catching anything so we parted ways and Jackie & I headed back into the harbor and fished near the bait barge.

Seems like most of the local’s fish with live bait, we were using plastics. I caught a sub legal WSB and shortly after Jackie caught this halibut.

Only saw one other fish caught during our stay around the barge, which turned out to be the fellow who gave us the info. where to fish. Boat traffic started getting a little crowded around 11 so we made the paddle back to Baby’s Beach. Jackie caught a small calico in the channel on our way back. All in all Dana Point is really a nice place to fish and hope to make it back again some time when the fish are biting.

BC