San Nicolas Island bite cranks

December 28, 2020

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4 ON THE IRON lbsf Chubasco 3 sebastian iron BURNS 20201205_084002 — ON THE IRON for Sebastian Burns aboard the 6-pack Chubasco III, Long Beach Sportfishing. PHOTO COURTESY OF UC COMPOSITES USA, DAN BURNS

Local half-day catches also contained large numbers of whitefish and aboard the Monte Carlo – 22nd Street Landing Sportfishing, Tuesday saw 12 anglers take 101 of them, plus 62 other grabber-type fish, and a sand bass.

Half-day highlights aboard the City of Long Beach, Pierpoint Landing, included 19 folks with limits of whitefish (190), a sand bass, 7 sculpin 19 sheephead and 32 blacksmith.

Squid nests out at Catalina Island weren’t as active as the previous week, but aboard the Chubasco III, 6-pack out of Long Beach Sportfishing, they’d made 4 scoops Monday morning and parlayed that into a pair of seabass, according to Dan Burns with United Composites USA.