Like I was saying last month, after I had that talking-to by the police about entering the park before sunrise, I parked along the Monrovia Ave. curb with all the other cars in the neighborhood so my truck wouldn’t be as noticeable as it was where I parked before, by itself along the golf course side of Sixth St.  I kept my light off as I snuck down to the shore of Colorado Lagoon in Long Beach, where with just one flash I saw and harvested a half-scoop of the longest, stringiest, greenest gooiest algae I have had in quite a while.  Hiding behind a tree and looking both ways for cars coming before running back up to the truck, I was on the road as if I had never stopped.

    Today’s tide was an early one – 5.6 at 06:00 – meaning there wouldn’t be too much of a window of high water to keep the fish holding at my favorite spot to the right of Opaleye Point.  The usual pattern persisted; I caught two opaleye early, a 1-0 and 1-9, then after 7:30, no more bites even though I had the area chummed sufficiently.

    Last time I packed up and hoofed it across the cove to Marineland Ledge, where only little guy bites were had.  This time, since the swell was down to only two feet, I went back up the bluff trail and drove over to the Marineland parking lot to fish Long Point.  Over here the fish bite pretty good one hour before to one hour after high tide, so it being already two hours after the high did not bode well.  For the hour I gave it I had three bites resulting in another opaleye of one pound.  Abadia abadia that’s all folks.

    This coming Sunday morning we have a special tide in store, a six-footer at ten o’clock.  That and the fact the developer of Terranea has been opening the parking lot earlier nowadays means we can fling lures from the outer rocks of Long Point around 06:30 at low tide, then fish the opaleye hole to the left of the point during the killer 9 till 11 high tide period.  This of course is dependent upon a swell of two feet or less, otherwise we do the same sort of thing at Opaleye Point, where the swell is always less than Long Point.

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