Last weekend we had two FIB’ers send in fishing reports. Dave Shill got the weekend started off on the right foot, when he and Roy Fukushima went out to Diamond Valley Lake to fish for Striped Bass. He said the fishing was on the slow side, but they got into some nice fish, and the weather was perfect! Besides catching his first stripers, Dave also caught a personal best catfish. He estimates the weight at over 25 pounds! WTG Dave!!

The second FIB’er report to come in this weekend was from Rick Chalmers. He said, “Hi Jason, You missed it! You really should have followed us to Bolsa Chica (we saw each other on the way to the beach, but I was going surfing) My buddy Bruce Finnnie and I went fishing Saturday the 25th of February with a group of anglers that Bill Varney had gotten together. Bill spoke at our club last year about surf fishing. Today we met with approx 25 other anglers at Bolsa Chica and had Bill teach us some surf fishing techniques. After the teaching we all spread out and began fishing. On about my third cast I felt a pretty good bite, but missed the fish. Then I recasted in the same area and wham the fish hit and it ran about 20 yards down the beach and I was running after it, dodging other anglers. There was no doubt in my mind that this was the biggest fish that I had ever hooked in the surf, and I was fishing with Berkley Vanish 4 lb test line so I wanted to be very careful. It really took me about 5-7 minutes to land the fish. Here are a few pictures of the beauty it was released for another day.


Then Bruce and I were fishing for a few more hours and we caught a few more perch, all in all a pretty great day. Blessings from our house to yours, Rick

Attention all FIB’er members, please send us your fishing reports and we will post them here!

Tight Lines!!

Report by FIB’er Member: Jayson Quimby
I wanted to make a longer run, but the lousy forecast and rolled over water kept us closer to home to battle it out for just under 15 fish.
I took my son (Dorian), Andrew and his buddy Danny out on Saturday. Water was chilly: 56-57 degrees.
I got out-fished by my son 5-3, and I couldn’t be happier!! He’s getting better!
The Tenacious weedless baits worked insane! Thanks Kevin!!

Dorian won $3 from us for catching the first fish, a sandbass (sorry no pic), and then he caught 4 Cabs that looked like this one:

A Cab ate the spinnerbait for Andrew

Andrew with a nice one on the Tenacious weedless bait in “Brown Bruiser.” I think this was the biggest fish of the day – right under 3#’s!

I rounded out the day with a couple like this on the Tenacious “Meltdown Brown” and one in “Rootbeer & Gold”

Tight Lines!
-Jayson