Took Friday off to putt around King Harbor for the low, low price of $65 (hah!)for a skiff. Lot of fishing, little catching. I learned one thing for sure, I can't manage three rods at a time. I had intended to drift a Pins minnow on a 6lb spinning outfit, drift a 5" swimbait on the bottom ala Calico Hunter's technique, and cast and retrieve 3-4" plastics at the inner breakwall. It was ridiculous. No trolling motor, too loose a rudder to idle in a straight line, and me tangled up like a cartoon as I drifted making slow, 180-360 degree moves, putting line around the prop, over and under the boat, rods and reels.

Anyway, I got two quick and easy scores on bonito casting the Pins minnow. They're fun, but I'm a bass kinda guy, so I put up the Pins and spent the rest of the day looking for bass. Missed one strike on the 6" sluggo in the first 10 minitues working the breakwall, then nothing else. I even tried squid down in the crevices, but no go. Spent the rest of the day trying to find bass holding areas without any strikes for 2+ hours. I should have tried dragging the main channel, but the haror patrol doesn't let you fish there and there's quite a bit of traffic. Finally, I ended up at the north marina entrance, casting at a cement wall (in the channel, dodging boats)with a 3" rainbow trout megabait swimbait, on a 1/2 oz head with a spinner blade attached. Picked the one and only bass of the day, a solid 4lb sandie, as I hopped the lure out of a weedbed. Worked the area for another 45 minutes, and went home happy, but thinking I'd have been better off going to Newport Bay.