Here is Lee O'Neil and the his White Seabass. Lee actually caught two white seabass. He was very kind to give away his second fish. Boy was it yummy! Thanks Lee!

Here is a nice quality White Seabass caught on the 1/2 AM on the New Seaforth.

Angel Gonzalez hooked into this nice White Seabass. Here is a shot of the fish at color.

Here is deckhand Grant and Angel Gonzalez with our first White Seabass of the day.

Angel caught this fish on a leadhead with a live squid pinned to it.

Angler Dan Wseman with a White Seabass caught with LIVE SQUID.

Dan Wiseman with another white seabass.

We departed Channel Island Sportfishing Center in Oxnard early at 3:50 AM. We were in a hurry to go catch some White Seabass. The previous day the White Seabass counts were limits on the Island Tak so our expectations were high.

Joe on the Mirage gave us some live squid and we immediately started catching White Seabass. It took us about 20 minutes to catch limits for all. The fish were thick. Here is Captain Steve Kelly hooked up into a White Seabass with a jig.

Here is angler Mike Murray with one of his three White Seabass. Everybody caught a limit of White Seabass.

Here is Gil Suizo with the Jackpot winning 25 pound White Seabass.

Here is angler Lee O'Neil with a White Seabass.

Here is the awesome threesome with some White Seabass. Thanks for coming along on this trip guys!

Angie got limts!

Here I am with one of my three White Seabass.

Chuck got limits!

Dennis got limits, too!

We finished up the day eating some fresh sushi. Of course we had some White Seabass in addition we had some Albacore that Dennis Evans caught on the American Angler earlier in the week. Thanks Dennis!

Fish Count: 12 anglers caught 36 White Seabass, 90 Calico Bass, 50 Calico Bass (released), and 1 California Halibut.

We left Ventura Harbor around 3:30am with hopes of cashing in on the White Seabass bite that had been going on at Santa Cruz Island. We arrived in time to fish the gray light, and we got hooked up almost immediatley. Here is Randy Janush with his nice White Seabass.

Here is Captain Matthew "Flatty Matty" Bates with a healthy White Seabass he landed on a jig.

Here is Randy Janush, Jeff Krieger, Roger, and Enoch displaying the morning's catch. The bite was on and off in a matter of 20 minutes.

Randy scored a nice White Seabass!