09-01-2010, 09:33 PM
[cool][#0000ff]Nice work. Great pics. Congrats on the flattie.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I used to fish all over Newport...inside and outside. If you want some "respectable" 'buts you need to fish 'chovies. I used to buy fresh dead from Art's Landing...or at least some good frozen ones. Then I would drag them over the bottom with an open bail, like I do for catfish. When a fish picked up the bait I let it run and then POW. That got me lots of decent halibut out off the little rock finger on the Corona Del Mar side...inside the bay. On the other side of the jetty...off the beach...I have caught them over 20 pounds. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]During the late fall and winter you can really get some good fishing out off the ends of the jetties. Fish a piece of squid either "fly lining" next to the rocks...or on a jig cast parallel. Calicos, opaleye, cabezon, sheepshead and even a lot of nice Catalina Blue Perch at times.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Sometimes the bonitos and barries come in between the end of the jetties and the buoy at the mouth of the marina. Hammer plastics will get you bit. There are even some yellowtail and white seabass at times. And there is one spot out from the Corona Del Mar jetty that is a depression in the bottom that has really produced some mega flatties. You can cast to it from the rocks if you are good, but it works much better to drag a chovy from the tube.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]You're doing fine. Keep up the good work.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I used to fish all over Newport...inside and outside. If you want some "respectable" 'buts you need to fish 'chovies. I used to buy fresh dead from Art's Landing...or at least some good frozen ones. Then I would drag them over the bottom with an open bail, like I do for catfish. When a fish picked up the bait I let it run and then POW. That got me lots of decent halibut out off the little rock finger on the Corona Del Mar side...inside the bay. On the other side of the jetty...off the beach...I have caught them over 20 pounds. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]During the late fall and winter you can really get some good fishing out off the ends of the jetties. Fish a piece of squid either "fly lining" next to the rocks...or on a jig cast parallel. Calicos, opaleye, cabezon, sheepshead and even a lot of nice Catalina Blue Perch at times.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Sometimes the bonitos and barries come in between the end of the jetties and the buoy at the mouth of the marina. Hammer plastics will get you bit. There are even some yellowtail and white seabass at times. And there is one spot out from the Corona Del Mar jetty that is a depression in the bottom that has really produced some mega flatties. You can cast to it from the rocks if you are good, but it works much better to drag a chovy from the tube.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]You're doing fine. Keep up the good work.[/#0000ff]
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