Fishing trip Jan 2012

My first Ramblin' fishing trip of Twenty Twelve.

Took a couple of MDRA guys out to run the boat and do a little fishing.

All in all it was a nice fishing day (Saturday. Jan 28th). Got to put my new fishing license to work. Will try to fish in all 12 months of "twenty twelve." Now if Only I could put a weight slip in to MDRA in each of the 12 months. That is much harder given the lack of fish biting yesterday.

Locally we had small craft advisories. Due to wind concerns. But that has to do with the entire Los Angeles weather pattern. Most has to do with blowing over trucks on the high mountain passes. If the conditions are right we could have bad weather in the bay or even a big Santa Ana cna bash Avalon Harbor.

This was not the case for yeasterday. Yes I checked the weather. So we went out on the Ramblin' and were rewared with fantastic conditions and views.

All the scared-d-cats are at the docks so we had very few boats on the water. The weather was great. The water was flat. Wind was nominal. I was in the south half of Santa Monica Bay. Not north up in Malibu under the steep canyons anyhow.

The one item we did need was a hot spot with biting fish! It was not a good day for catching. We did have a great blue sky day on the water. Few boats were out there. Nice dolphin and bait action. We fished from Malaga Cove to PV point and got nothing. Did have some excitement as a nice thresher shark that picked up one of my sardines on the drop and it gave us a terrific show. Even after it bit the line off it still broke the surface for wild slashing of that great big iridescent tail in the afternoon sunshine.

Fish Wish Granted... Good day on the water.

Keith L.