Brian and I fished on the Stardust today with a pretty full load of 38 anglers. The weather was sunny with<BR> patchy low clouds and calm winds early. We started out on some flats off Carpenteria in 70 feet of water but<BR> things were pretty slow with Brian getting a 14" sand bass and a brown rockfish and myself a small sculpin.<BR> After a while Jason made a move out to the 4-mile reef and on my first drop I nailed a 5 pound red. One<BR> more nice red was boated along with some miscellaneous rockfish, sculpin, and quite a few short ling cod.<BR> Once that spot stopped biting we moved again to a nearby stone and again on my first drop I nailed another<BR> red a tad bigger than the first one. It came up the last fish in a big tangle involving another nice red and a<BR> short ling. It was a kick because there were 6-7 hookups all at once on some nice fish. This was the best stop<BR> of the day and a dozen or so QUALITY reds were put in the boat along with more short lings, some brown<BR> rockcod, and some barberpoles. Brian got another nice brown rockfish. I wound up winning the pot by a hair<BR> with my second red, gave it all to the crew and headed for home. What a great day on the water.