Met up with Doper4life at 4am in Los Alamitos. The wind was calm at the ramp, looked like the storm had blown thru thankfully. Up to San Pedro for bait, Thanks for the squid Mike. Out of the harbor and up the line to Rocky Point. Seas still were confused, with some steep -faced chunks making the ride up a little slower . Stopped at our first spot in the dark, water was 59*. Didn’t look good, 4* cooler than the weeks prior so off we go further around the corner in search of. As we progressed around the point, the water kept getting warmer little by little. Pulled up in Haggerty”s , the temp was 63* and very clean. We started the chum line and were rewarded with a slow pick at a few species, Sheephead, Opaleye and Calicos. D4L got 3 Calicos as did I. Some of them were very nice quality fish, but no WSB were seen or caught.

We  ran back around to our 1st spot to check it out, current was right but the temp was still cold. We anchored up, started a heavy chum line and started fishing. Nothing, not even a Calico. As the late morning breeze was picking up, Doper4Life and I talked ourselves into running back to the harbor to try the Halibut/ Thresher combo troll.  Hoping to find a little clean water we were pleasantly surprised to see a lot of good looking green water in the harbor with only small amounts of the red stuff.  Had spent most of my free time this week going thru the mess I call Halibut gear getting it straight, making new rigs and such so I opted to only put out Bounce ball gear. This was at about 10:30am. Doper4Life put out both BB gear and a Thresher rig. Soon I was rewarded with a 23 inch keeper that I bounced onto the boat.