After hearing about the excellent bite yesterday (Saturday) I rousted up some recruits and Jamon, John-Paul, Brian, his buddy and I went out for the morning run on the Starust. The seas were calm and it was overcast all morning. We fished down around the armpit on some hard bottom areas targeting the sculpin and sand bass and the bite was great! It was a steady pick all day and when we wrapped it up the count was something around 68 sculpin, 16 sandies, 3 calicos, a sheepshead, and a couple whitefish for 12 guys. The cool thing today was that you could catch them just about any way you wanted too. Fish were caught on squid, sardines, anchovies, swimbaits, the "trevor rig", and a new rig we invented today called the "heinous rig". For our group the body count was:<BR>Jamon: 2 sculpin both on 5" big hammers<BR>John-Paul: A bunch of small rockfish released, 1 sculpin on the plastic and another 1 or 2 on bait<BR>Brian: 3 sculpin including one fat sucker, 2 on the heinous rig<BR>Brian's Buddy (he got the exotics): 1 calico on the heinous rig and 1 sheepshead<BR>Rob: 5 sclupin, 4 on plastics and one on bait.<BR>Since, to quote Jason, "sculpin don't care about nothing" your best bet would probably be to fish plastics on 1 and a half ounce heads or on a dropper loop above a 3 oz sinker (witness the heinous rig). The other trick is to never reel in your line. We were fishing in 100 feet of water and getting down with the swimbait took a little time, but since we were drifting very slowly all you had to do was raise and lower your tip verrrrrrrrrry slowly making sure you were on the bottom. The sculpin pretty much sucked down the swimbaits whole so it was just a matter of winding in to them and setting the hook. <BR>Jackpot for the trip was a 4lb sandbass. As always a great time on the Stardust. <P>Here's Jamon with some of our better sculpin<BR><img src="http://www.calfishing.com/images/daily_reports/1_24_00_jamon.jpg"><P>And Brian with the fat one on the left<BR><img src="http://www.calfishing.com/images/daily_reports/1_24_00_brian.jpg"><P>And here's the bait that worked well for me, a 5" cardiff plastics swimbait on a 1.5oz head<BR><img src="http://www.calfishing.com/images/daily_reports/1_24_00_swimbait.jpg"><P><BR>