After last Tuesday evening I just had to get back down to the harbor and try for some more white seabass. Mike Edwards and I got down there around 4:30 and I fished until about 7:30 (we were leaving for Lake San Antonio). Seabass are very strange how the bite can be wide open one minute and then totally dead the next. In a period of about an hour it was awesome. Before and after it totally sucked. I got 12 Seabass, 8 were in the 25 - 27 inch range, 3 in the 20 - 24 inch range, and one little one (like 15 inches). About half of them were on the Fastrac and half were on big plastics (I tried lots of different colors and they all seemed to work). I also got a couple Sand Bass including one on a 7 inch Channel Islands Chovie Fishtrap (The fish was only about 12 inches but he inhaled that huge plastic). I'm not sure how many Mike got and Woody (bait guy) got one that was about 25 or 26 inches.

You can't catch tomorrow what you kill today - please practice catch and release.

Hey Leapin' - - I wanted to ask you a question if you don't mind giving up info. about this spot. First, I was wondering if you bounce plastics off the bottom for White's or if it is straight surface.

Also, several people have mentioned fishing around the bait dock in SB harbor. Is that the dock directly in front the Jetty at sea landing.

I know you guys float tube. Do you think fishing plastics from the tip of the breakwater or from the above mentioned jetty might produce some results?

Your help is appreciated.

For plastics I've tried all kinds of retrieves and when the white's are there and hitting they all seem to work. I'll usually cast and reel, then I'll try casting and letting it sink for a second then reel, then again but let it sink two seconds, repeat this adding a second each time, when it gets to be enough seconds that I hit bottom I'll repeat the straight in retrieve once more, then on the next cast I'll try bouncing the bottom. This is a pretty typical method in all types of fishing when one is trying to find out what depth the fish are holding at.

Like I said when they're on they're on and it seems anything will work but when they're not in the mood - forget it - almost nothing will work. You just have to put in your time and hope you hit them when they're turned on.

Fishing from shore around the harbor and wharf area has been pretty productive for me but for halibut not seabass. I find it kind of tough to work a lure correctly at all depths when you're reeling up the slope of the bottom. Also, if you hook a nice seabass from shore you can't chase it, hopefully preventing it from wrapping you around something or preventing a sea lion from snatching it off your line. I use moderately light tackle (8-12 lb. test) so being able to chase the fish is kind of important.

You can't catch tomorrow what you kill today - please practice catch and release.