LAST EDITED ON Aug-08-00 AT 09:52 PM (PST)

Well, I made my first real fishing trip since my punishment. I met Pete and Mike and one of Mike's old buddies. We figured it would a mostly halibut deal so we fished the pier (from the tubes) with small plastics and fastracs. I got a couple mackerel, as did everybody else. Pete I think got a couple short halibuts, Mike got like 9 shorts (he got there before we did) and by dusk we headed over to the bait barge to see how dead the wsb were. Well, Pete decided to head across the channel and fish some pilings and stuff and I proceeded to miss 4 bites by the bait barge and as a small walk around drove by, I got a solid one. Connected with this one. Twas a good fish. I thought on a couple occasions that I had snagged the boat it was taking so much line. So I hollared at Pete and he kicked across and waited around for me to get it to the boat and I netted a 36", 15 lb. wsb. My personal best from the float tube. He bit the castaic swimbait (which is now history, it's so chewed) and swallowed the entire 7" bait. The fish might look a little thin in the picture, that's cause he's half filleted...
-Brian http://www.calfishing.com/images/daily_reports/brianseabass.jpg