In the sprit of U2's showing at the Grammy's...I Have Found What I'm Looking For. My first tidepool fishing experience was sweet. In just 40 minutes I caught a nice 12" brown rockfish and had another more sizable fish devour my small swimbait, but I goofed and let him get back under the rocks and he refused to come out, eventually snapping my line. I can't wait to get out there again cause it's just 30 minutes from Cal Poly, and it's free...can't beat that!

That is good news. I go up there alot, stay in Baywood Park. Where about did you fish, I am familiar with the beach there, if you could please give me some more detail.
Thanks

Pete,
I was fishing at the last easily accessible beach from the road at Montana de Oro (there is a house/building right across the street and there is a large rock structure that kids are always climbing and playing on). To the right of the beack is a huge reef/tide pool area that is perfect for exploring and gives you access to water that is deep enough to hold good-sized fish. It's really sweet if you enjoy climbing around the rocks. Make sure you check the fishing season on rockfish...I'm not sure, but I may have been fishing illegally last week because I just read a report that rockfishing is out of season in Santa Cruz, so it might be here too. Oops! :-( I need to check on that. Hope that is enough detail for you!

B-Corb