More perch 5th Street Oxnard - Afternoon Session

[Jackpot]

W. Fifth St in Oxnard this afternoon with Joey. Fished from approx 5:15 pm to 7:45 pm.

Wind was blowing onshore at first then mellowed.

Setup: carolina rigged w/1 oz sliding sinker and small narrow gauge bait hooks. Gulp sand worm (both the green/brown & the bloody red).

12' spinning surf rod & 8 1/2' steelhead/salmon baitcaster - both with 8 lb line.

Tide was on it's way up out of the low trough to 5.8 at 8:50 pm so we figured there would be some chewin going on. Started a little slow with a BSP on my first cast... and on in went as we worked north toward the power plant.

The green/brown definitely worked better but the bloody red worked well too.

At some point along the way some dude comes rolling up with pole in hand as we're pulling BSP in one after the other and he starts casting less than ten feet from Joey... complete poach job... of course we were shouting and hollering HOOOOK UP! constantly which probably attracted the attention so it served us right... kinda... but to poach someone while there's not a soul anywhere else on the beach was kinda weak...

During a flurry of BSP snagging where Joey hooked 6 BSP in 6 straight casts I managed to snag a nice croaker among numerous BSP.

All in all it was very good fishing... BUT WHERE WERE THE TOADS YOU GUYS KEEP TALKING ABOUT??? We only caught a couple in the 8 in range.

We also hooked at least 15-20 more that found their way off the cheap-a$$ hooks we were using.

Catch for the day:
30+ BSP (we lost count when we started a flurry of at least 10 BSP in under 5 minutes).
1 YFC

Sry, no time for pics... too WFO!

JJ

[Anotherbite]

Nice Job guys! That spot is really hot right now! As for those toads, well, don't know what to tell you. They were there Sunday!

[ODH33]

nice!

[Joey805]

Yeah! The bite was good but no toads to be found. Also the red tide was pretty bad tonight. Not sure if that had anything to do with it but none the less, I still had a great time.

JJ, lets try another beach next time to see what we can find.

[IslandFox]

Way to get out there and get them guys! I was wondering the same thing about the big ones yesterday as well. At least I saw that lady pull one in.

[YakSailor]

No doubt they're there! Good job on the perch.

[Bigworm]

You need to use those small a$$ perch for bait to get to the TOADS.....LOL