Omar has an Alarm Clock ?     

Fun morning, Congrats on busting the Curse!!! 

Last trip to The Sierras, my bag of Jerky fell out of my backpack along The Owens River   I doubled back and found it next to a Cow Patty     Saved the weekend 

Looks like a fun session at MB, glad you got your tackle box back, it's a horrible feeling losing gear !

Easy with that shoulder, El Nino is going to give us some good fishing

That is terrifying to almost lose a box like that, easy to forget how much the tackle adds up to sometimes. Great session!

You basically showed up late because of socks, got smacked on the second cast, broke the curse, set a PB, and out‑fished Omar like he owed you money. Congrats on both of your PB's! lol

I'm glad the bay finally decided to stop hazing you and let you enjoy a good morning of catching.  I was starting to get suspicious after your last handful of bay reports.  hahaha

I've been not so much stoked to just cast for bass from the shore since my shoulder is getting worse, but I need to get my fix in.

Heading down to the flooding tide and opted to fish the rocks to see if I can find some vina cruising in with it.

Tide was low and the bites were not very aggressive.  I swung and missed on 3, farmed 2, but caught 2 little peepee bass.



I then get a bite which I totally knew was different and voila!  a tiny 12" corvina on the swimmy!  I tried to flip it up the rocks, but that went as well as you could have imagined and back in the drink it went.

It was a few hours of very few fish when I decided to change out my swimmy to a different color.  I already tried creature baits but needed to go with the old stand bye.  I reached into my backpack and ..... no tackle box!  WTF!!!!!

I had like 5 LC's, along with a STUFFED smaller box of goodies in it which would have cost well over $200 to replace.  I walked the entire strip twice when I caught the reflection of the plastic cover... WHEW!



I went back to where I stopped and all of a sudden, the bite turned on as we neared the high tide!  I swung and missed on a few but ended up with 9 of these smedium sized buggers!





Ran across a "Code Brown"...



But finishing strong after that slow start definitely lifted my spirits.





Then something really cool happened.  I saw some mullet jumping and was scanning the shoreline and saw what I thought was a school of 12-14 inch sized mullet.  I cast in front thinking I may snag one (to freeze for bait) and all of a sudden it charged the Swimmy and ate it!  WTF!?!?!

I got it in for a quick picture and saw all of the fish all hyped up and swimming all if front of me.



Next cast I'm on again, but sportmen's release at the shoreline.

Next cast and I get a really small one only about 13".

Next cast and I watch another one grab the swimmy, but it shakes the hook.

All in all, I caught 2 and farmed 3 before they spooked out of there.  Granted, they were small and not much of a fight, but the fire drill of it all kind of gave me a rush.

Well, that was it.  I think I caught my 9th bass just after and started to head back to the truck with a busted shoulder.  I gave Dave a call to fill him in but he was getting ready for the Padre's game to start on TV.

Either way, I'm glad I got out and ESPECIALLY GLAD I didn't lose my tackle box!

Thanks for reading and until next tide!

Parked around 0530. I was 15 minutes late because I had to turn around for the neoprene socks.

Second cast I got clobbered on the spinnerbait. Third cast I got the skunk off with my first spotty out of Alamitos.



Nice morning.



Got another spotty in the channel and then a pee pee turd.



Then Omar showed up! Nice of him to join this time. Took getting to the marinas before we both started hooking some more. I got a solid 13". The current was clearly ripping right under the ends of the marinas and the smelt fry were all around.



Then his first fish of the day is his PB at 16"!



Then I get a 15", my PB.



Then we both hooked ~15"ers moments later.



Slowed a bit but we kept a steady pick til the top of the tide, then there was an hour or more of nearly no bites. We turned back from the top of our loop and I got a couple sandies to pump my numbers up and over 10 for the first time on the tube.



Last fish for me was another solid spotty, putting me at 12 to Omar's 5 for the day.



Got off the water around 1230. Nice to finally get my Alamitos curse off, and it provided better quality and quantity than Newport has produced so far for me. Looking forward to the next one.

Looking on the internet, San Diego and North County have multiple places that do boat repair, I guess you just have to go down the list and see who will take the job, hopefully someone closer to you. It sucks that this is turning into a Nightmare !

I called Brick's Marine and felt like I was getting drilled and having this guy say "That's what I get for buying a cheaply built boat" really pissed me off.  Not off to a good start and never got back to me so I'm probably moving on to someone else.

Apparently "Brick's" is a more pretentious place of business.  I don't want to say too much since we all have bad days, but this guy hammered that feeling to me multiple times trying to be hidden by "I'm not trying to say.... BUT..." sort of crap.

I got rid of my Volvo because any simple thing that came up was triple the price for repair and always somehow disqualified me from being able to do it myself.

Hope you sort it out soon!

Ugh !!! These guys are taking all the fun out of boat ownership   Hope you find someone willing to do the mechanical part, Jorge is a great repair guy, good luck