FISHING NOTES : Twilight Trips Offer 9-to-5 Employees a Night Out on the Water

With summer approaching, South Bay Sportfishing Landings have started offering twilight trips for sand bass, barracuda, bonito and yellowtail.

Twilight trips offer a chance for anglers to get out during the workweek and even escape the summer heat when it arrives.

Redondo Sportfishing’s Sea Spray returned from a twilight trip and anglers caught half to full limits of sand bass.

Long Beach Sportfishing’s twilight trip to the flats resulted in a mixed bag of sand bass and calico bass. Long Beach fisherman Myron Ackerman caught an eight-pound sand bass.

L.A. Harbor Sportfishing’s half-day boat Matt Walsh found a wide-open barracuda run on Monday and 12 anglers caught a full limit of 10 six- to eight-pound fish.

The Matt found similar success Tuesday morning, with fish taking bait and jigs.

The Phantom from Long Beach Sportfishing fished off Catalina Island over the weekend and all the anglers aboard caught the one-fish limit for white seabass.

Redondo fishermen Karl Schlick was the jackpot winner with his 25-pound seabass that he hooked on a small mackerel. Manny Morales caught a jackpot contender with his 22-pounder.

It has been a disappointing spring so far for anglers waiting for a salmon run.

Rico Curtis of Gardena, fishing aboard the Monte Carlo out of 22nd Street Landing, hooked a salmon that appeared to weigh about five pounds, but the fish came off the hook as he brought it near the boat.

Dan Armstrong at Redondo Sportfishing reports that last week three skiff fishermen trolling out from the pier returned with three salmon.

Armstrong said the salmon this year seem to be moving north and anglers appear to be catching only stray fish.

Returning from a 17-day long-range trip aboard the Royal Polaris, Manhattan Beach fisherman Dick Durmage caught the five-fish tuna limit and a 48-pound, 5-ounce yellowtail.

South Bay Catches--Charlie Motamyer of Redondo Beach, fishing off Catalina aboard the Blackjack, used a small mackerel to catch the whopper of the week, a 37 1/2-pound yellowtail.

Victor Pacitic of West Los Angeles, fishing Santa Monica Bay aboard the Happyman, caught a 20-pound halibut.

Bill Garr of Redondo Beach, fishing aboard the Sea Spray at twin roads, caught a 20-pound halibut.

Jack Goldberg of Wilmington, fishing aboard the Hitless Miss at the rock pile, caught a 17 3/4-pound white seabass.

Paul Nakasuka of Santa Monica, fishing off Catalina aboard the Toronado, caught a 16-pound yellowtail.

Freshwater Notes--David Kipper of Long Beach used cut mackerel for bait and landed a 37 1/2-pound catfish at Lake Casitas.

Curtis Thompson of Hawthorne caught a 5-pound, 10-ounce trout at Irvine Lake.

Jim North of Redondo Beach, caught a five-pound bass at Lake Piru.