Long Beach 04-29-06

[PerryC]

Headed out to 72nd street jetty with Piranha for a few hours of fishing. We launched despite there being a very bad looking red tide condition and hoped for the best. After we launched from the beach, I dipped my paddle down into the water to see how bad, bad was. When put in straight down, you pretty much lost the tip of the blade when the rear of the blade was at water level. We had some frozen anchovies though, so I was sure we would get a fish or two despite the bad water. We trolled beyond casting distance from the beach parallel to it for a few hundred yards for alot of debris on our plugs. We decided to turn to the island and fish there and hope for some cleaner water. Jerry got hit and broke off right after we arrived, and I nailed this nice looking Sculpin



There was a couple of guys in the area fishing in a skiff, and one turned out to be Ed and his friend Eric. They had done well for the day so we stayed in the area and I got a croaker that I released. Jerry scored a nice sandie which headed home for the taco tray, and we called it a day when the wind came up. Overall, a nice day on the water.

Perry