Hey dude. This is "the other Brian", the one who went dinghy fishing with Brian 2 today. For the sake of everyone's sanity, Brian 2 gave me the official title of "Brian 7", so that's what I'll go by from now on.

We hit the water just past 5:30 and went straight to the kelp beds off leadbetter beach. We drifted through various beds and fished slow crank and off the bottom. After several hours we had each caught one calico (mine first, but smaller). Both were caught near the surface.

On our way back to the cars we stopped at the bait barge to try for seabass. No bites, no hits, nothing. I think we're going to try goleta beach tomorrow.

I couldn't tell you what # it was, but we both used 5" big hammers.