@NIGHTHAWK - looks like time ‘well spent’, nice calm flat water, beautiful day. I’m not much of a fisherman but love stripper fishing and they are my favorite fish to catch and eat — I grew up fishing on the East coast for Atlantic stripers either off the beach or close to shore in a boat casting or trolling….sometimes also caught them in tidal rivers. GOOD DAYS CATCH for You !!
Striped bass were introduced to California in 1879 when 132 young fish were transported from New Jersey by train and released into the San Francisco Bay estuary
@NIGHTHAWK - You fished nights with a “Lantern”? What are you 130 years old??
As recently as the eighties, and I am sure it is still done along the Louisiana coast somewhere, I would take a 14 ft boat out along the jetties of the ship channel at Cameron, Louisiana. I would head out around midnight and once anchored rig two coleman lanterns about three feet off the water on either side of the boat. Using a rubber tailed jig or spoon, I could fill two igloo ice chests with specks and a few reds by first light. Around a half dozen would go into a small cooler for the freezer and the remainder would be dropped off at a seafood retailer on the way home. Those nights were great fun (except when a crew boat came by too close) and seriously augmented a captain's meager salary.
As recently as the eighties, and I am sure it is still done along the Louisiana coast somewhere, I would take a 14 ft boat out along the jetties of the ship channel at Cameron, Louisiana. I would head out around midnight and once anchored rig two coleman lanterns about three feet off the water on either side of the boat. Using a rubber tailed jig or spoon, I could fill two igloo ice chests with specks and a few reds by first light. Around a half dozen would go into a small cooler for the freezer and the remainder would be dropped off at a seafood retailer on the way home. Those nights were great fun (except when a crew boat came by too close) and seriously augmented a captain's meager salary.
Those are some awesome Lingcod. Caught my first from the rocks off Big Sur, while in at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey. Just getting to a position from which I could cast was an adventure in itself.
I carried on the tradition later in life. In my 20’s, I had one rigged on my center console when we would night fish in the delta. This one was propane. Live bait fishing in the Delta sloughs for winter stripers at night was a lot of fun. If it works, it works!
