Posted on June 14th, 2026
We had a little wind blow up this afternoon, and it got pretty hot out there, but it was still a very nice day to watch the OC Air show and/or do a little fishing.
Captain Mark Hoos and his crew on the MARLI had a nice day in the canyon today with a limit of bluefin tuna and a big pile of blueline tilefish.
Anglers fishing aboard the Miss Kathleen out of Bahia Marina had a good day with several very nice keeper flounder coming aboard.
Captain Chris Mizurak of the Angler reported a decent bite on today’s trip with plenty of keeper sea bass and a few flounder.
Captain Monty Hawkins of the Morning Star stayed a little after the bell today and his customers were rewarded with a nice catch of sea bass and a few flounder
Sea Bass and a few Fluke 6/14/26
My unannounced Sunday trip had near perfect weather.
Kacie & Kevin deployed a terracotta reef unit atop Bill Beacher’s Memorial Reef & we went fishing. Lot of wheelhouse work to keep fish coming I suppose, but it worked – plenty of dinner around the rail this day.
Though I’d wanted to catch the air show’s finale; those Air Force Thunderbirds are pretty cool when directly overhead, I stayed on to put a few more cbass in coolers.
Did.
Joe took full advantage; pulled the pool winner right at the bell. A tight weigh in, but he took it.
We could barely see the jets in the distance coming home.
Some maintenance tomorrow – reef work for my guys – maybe some more research on nature’s methods of ‘recruitment regulation’ – how fish naturally avoid overpopulating their habitat.. Boy is there a lot of science on that subject – complicated work too. Lots of new vocab for this skipper. Need to spell it out plain so we can apply it to sea bass & begin to get management’s potential.
Somewhere north of fifty more sea bass for each one we have now? Yes, I think that’s about right. And getting there hinges on fishing pressure.
Oh Boy.
Going to be a job to convince management that more & more & more regulation has backfired in the worst way.
Cheers,
Monty
