![]() ![]() The Pier Rats Speak - Posts from the Pier Fishing In California Message Boardĭate: SeptemTo: PFIC Message Board From: EddieE Subject: Morro Bay T-Pier Report 09/15/03 LEOPARD CITY! I have never made a trip to the pier without encountering at least one sea otter. < - If you like sea otters this is a pier you should visit. Potpourri - More than you many want to know about the pier A 95-pound skate (I assume it was a big skate) was caught at the pier Christmas week of ’99 and bat ray approaching 100 pounds have been reported. A bloody piece of mackerel or an oily sardine seems best for the sharks while the bat rays prefer squid. Many anglers also will try for the halibut using an artificial lure such as a Lucky Craft lure or a soft plastic like a Big Hammer.Īlthough I’ve never seen too many “shark” fishermen on the piers at night, these bay waters are considered excellent for leopard sharks, brown smoothhound sharks, and bat rays (and the piers are reputed to be a hot spots for big rays). One is to fish the inside waters for the same fish you catch from the stem or to fish the water outside the pier for whatever is on the bottom-halibut, sharks and rays.įor the halibut a Carolina-leader with a live bait (shiner perch or small smelt) works best. A Lucky Lura-type or Sabiki-type bait rigging or a small jig, is often most productive if schools of sardines, jacksmelt, Pacific mackerel, or jack mackerel show up.įishing at the end offers two options. Fish mid-depth or near the top for walleye and silver surfperch fish near the bottom for blackperch, rubberlip seaperch, rockfish and flatfish. These are baited with worms, small pieces of shrimp or mussel. When fishing the stem, the area leading out to the end, the best set-up seems to be a light outfit, hooks size 6 or 8. Bait is either a pile worm, lug worm, ghost shrimp, small piece of market shrimp, or a piece of mussel cut to look like a worm. I never rest this rod against the railing! You have to be ready to reel in the line as soon as your have a bite or you will lose the fish (and often your sinker to the rocks). I drop the sinker in the hole or crevice and make sure I am ready for a strike. My tackle for the rock fishing is simple, a size 6 or 4 hook tied on a short dropper leader a foot above a torpedo sinker. Further rock hugging species have included lingcod, kelp greenling, and a gnarly monkeyface eel (prickleback). The same was true with several species of perch that like to hang around a rocky environment-black seaperch, striped seaperch, pileperch and a large rubberlip perch that I managed to lose at the end. Subsequent trips fishing the rocks have produced eight species of adult rockfish-black rockfish, black & yellow rockfish, blue rockfish, brown rockfish, copper rockfish, gopher rockfish, grass rockfish, kelp rockfish and another four species of juvenile rockfish-bocaccio, chilipepper rockfish, vermilion rockfish. Of course I hadn’t followed my own suggestions. That way you can often keep the fish even if you lose your sinker. That fish, a fish that felt like an eel, reminded me that it’s often good to connect your sinker with a short piece of lighter line. An additional fish, seemingly large (but I’ll never know for sure), was lost to those same rocks. ![]() My first visit to the pier proved that to be true when two grass rockfish and a small lingcod grabbed the baits I had dropped down into the crevices between the rocks. At the North T-Pier, those rocks are mostly blocked off. The main difference between this pier and the North T-Pier is the fact that the inshore rocks can be fished and they yield a plethora of rock-loving species. Water inshore is fairly shallow while a good cast from the end can see a fairly good depth the bottom is mud with some eelgrassĪlmost all of the environmental conditions mentioned for the North T-Pier are duplicated at this pier: strong tides and current, occasional heavy amounts of eelgrass in the water (especially out-flowing tides), and distinct seasons for the fish.įish and Fishing Tips. Inshore, one side sees an open rocky shoreline the other side sits adjacent to the Great American Fish Company. Perhaps this is due to its larger size, a fact that seems to allow more space to remain open to fishing than its sister pier when boats are in port.Įnvironment.The South T-Pier is a little longer than the North-T at 256 feet, but has a similar 400-foot-wide end the surface is listed at 12 feet above the water. Sitting just a few hundred yards south of the North T-Pier, the South T-Pier is slightly larger and seems to be seeing an increasing proportion of the local pier anglers choose it as home. Public Pier - No Fishing License Required ![]()
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