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Forum nameSaltwater Fishing in California
Topic subjectnewport bay
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6629, newport bay
Posted by , Wed Jun-26-02 07:16 PM
fished the bay for the third straight week...it just keeps getting better and better! fished from about 8:30-3:00pm. we pulled up fish left and right. you name it, we got it.

we pulled in sand bass (one that was at least 2lbs), a couple of nice spotted bay bass, mackerals, short barries, 3 short but fun wsb, lots of short halibut (2 close to legal),

lots of silver perch looking fish about 6-10 inches...not too sure what it is...

also my brother threw out a sardine...i told him it was too big to catch anything in the harbor because they were pretty large...but sure enough, his reel was screaming and whaterver it was took off until the line snapped. so he threw another another one out and it got whacked too. this time the thing circled around the boat then snapped the line...my guess is a nice size shark, any other guesses?

then there was some prehistoric looking thing. it had the head of a lingcod, but it narrowed out after the head to a long tail, almost eel like...the top fin ran all the way from behind the head to the tail...would be interested to know what that thing was if anyone knows...it was about 15 inches long.

anyways, the fishing was great, "it was like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get." the only draw back would be all the kids learning to sail whizzing around yelling...but hey i was out fishing so no worries:)