Today we are fishing with Captain Joe Villareal on the Mirage. We departed Port Hueneme on time. We loaded bait and headed out. The fishing at the outer islands has been decent for rockfish but the White Seabass have been a no show recently. Since the White Seabass have been biting locally we decided to fish local. Our first stop was Chinese Harbor to look for some Squid. We looked everywhere but NO SQUID.

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Squid or not! We got our White Seabass. Here is one of the fish. We started catching them around 4 AM.

The fish would come in flurries. It was not wide open but we did end up with a decent score. Most of the fish were caught on dropper loops with Sardines.

The fish just keep biting and we hooked up two or three at a time. Here is deckhand Ian holding one on the gaff. Ian is a great deckhand and I enjoy fishing with him.

I was a little rusty since i had not been fishing much lately. But I eventually got back into White Seabass shape. I caught this one on a dropper loop with a LIVE SARDINE. This is the first White Seabass I have caught with a Sardine. I guess I have been spoiled over the years with the luxury of fishing with LIVE SQUID.

John was fishing with us again. He brought little John but today was big John's day.

Addie had a hot stick today. He caught many White Seabass using swimbaits.

We had good grade on the fish today. I would say most were around 20 pounds. We did have a couple bigger and a few smaller. But most around 20.

Dean is back. And he got his fish too.

Simi Valley Ford guys score some White Seabass. I had a great time hanging out with this group today. We all had fun and there was no stress. Of course, we gambled and it paid off.

Mike caught his first White Seabass. Thanks for coming out with us. We look forward to fishing with you in the future.

Ian cut the heart out of Mike's White Seabass.

And Mike ate it. Welcome to the club. You are now one with the the White Seabass. You are the man!!!!!!

Randy was one of the lucky ones to get a seabass.

Casey got one too!

Darrell hooked into a croaker too.

I got lucky and got the biggest croaker.

Although the seabass bite slowed, we still had a great time fishing with Steve and John! Thanks guys for a fun time!

Capt John told us the fish were hanging just out of sight. He told us to drop our baits just deep enough to where we couldn't see them. I grabbed my dropper-loop setup and dropped down a 4/0 hook with 3 chovies pinned on. After a few minutes I got a seabass. I dropped back down, and 10 mins later I landed another seabass.

Darius landed the only other seabass of the day.

Seabass on the deck!

Here is Chris and 2nd Ticket Doug with Chris' first ever white seabass! Man, I wish my first seabass was 54lbs!!!! Congrats Chris!!!