What's My Favorite California Fishing Pier? - Pier Fishing in California
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- Ken Jones of Pier Fishing in California talks about a few of his favorite California fishing piers.
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Shelter Island Pier - www.pierfishing.com/shelter-i...
Crystal Pier - www.pierfishing.com/crystal-p...
Ocean Beach - www.pierfishing.com/ocean-bea...
Newport Pier - www.pierfishing.com/newport-p...
Balboa Pier - www.pierfishing.com/balboa-pier/
San Clemente Pier - www.pierfishing.com/san-cleme...
Seal Beach Pier - www.pierfishing.com/seal-beac...
Green Pleasure Pier - www.pierfishing.com/green-ple...
Cabrillo Mole - www.pierfishing.com/cabrillo-...
Santa Monica Pier - www.pierfishing.com/santa-mon...
Malibu Pier - www.pierfishing.com/malibu-pier/
Goleta Pier - www.pierfishing.com/goleta-pier/
Gaviota Pier - www.pierfishing.com/gaviota-p...
Coast Guard Pier - www.pierfishing.com/monterey-...
Santa Cruz Wharf - www.pierfishing.com/santa-cru...
Capitola Wharf - www.pierfishing.com/capitola-...
Pacifica Pier - www.pierfishing.com/pacifica-...
Fort Baker Pier - www.pierfishing.com/fort-bake...
Elephant Rock Pier - www.pierfishing.com/elephant-...
Point Arena Pier - www.pierfishing.com/point-are...
Trinidad Pier - www.pierfishing.com/trinidad-...
Citizen's Dock - www.pierfishing.com/citizens-...
B Street Pier - www.pierfishing.com/b-street-...
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My best pier was back in the 70S, Imperial Beach Pier before it was torn down by a storm in the 80S. Caught a lot of fish back then during my teen's years. One day I caught three bat rays, two 100 pounds and 80 pounders. I've seen people catching big halibuts back then 15 to 25 pounders. Those was good old days not anymore.
I.b was also my favorite for lobster hooping
Great video, what a thrill to have fished off so many piers. Thanks for sharing , I looked forward to visiting and catching some fish and banking some memories .
Sorry about Gaviota pier being closed. I had a great time body surfing there as a boy, and the pier was like a paradise compared to the winds at Pismo.
As much as the State charges to camp there, they should have plenty of funds to fix the pier.
Redondo short (destroyed), Hermosa, Manhattan, Port Hurneme, and Ventura were always good. One in LA harbor is said to be good.
Ken you're the man!!!!!
Nicely done. I read about those piers in your book. Pier fishing in California 2nd addition. So far I have about 43 pier as visited. No where close to yours, but I am working on it.
I miss aliso pier, the diamond pier where you could drop down into the center. Lost in the mid late 90s to a storm. (South Laguna, OC)
I'm a female pier fishing aficionado. I'm going to try and hit all the piers mentioned in this video (that I've missed). Thank you so much for sharing your list of favorites.
A female pier fishing aficionado? I never knew that exist. :) I love piers too.
Some of the best anglers I know are "Lady Anglers" and your note reminds me of letters I have received over the years from anglers planning similar visits. A favorite was from an angler in Canada who came down to California and followed the coastline stopping at the piers in the book. One trip and a LOT of piers.
@@walden6272 Yes, I am one for sure! We are rare, but not unicorns! :-) Happy fishing.
@@bellabong8862 Just curious, how often do you go fishing? For me, I go fishing 2 times a week usually. 😁
@@walden6272 Not at all lately. I can't go now because I have to be a caregiver to a family member who had a stroke. I used to go weekly and loved it even if I only caught mackerel or even smelt. There's something so fun about feeling the tip of your pole jiggle and then bend with a fish on your hook.
I grew up in Newport 20 th street I miss it it was great 70s & 80s
Hello Mr Jones, I remember reading on your website (basically my bible) that the most favored bait for salmon is live baitfish. I am used to threading frozen anchovies through a mooching leader and have the nose "kiss" the eye of the hook, but I think that would just kill the bait and eliminate whatever lively action it once had. How would you put a live baitfish on a circle hook? Do you hook them through the nose? The midsection? The tail? Using 2 fixed hooks? Also my favorite pier is the Moore Rd Pier and its tangentially related to what I was asking you about. Sanddabs, Sharks, BIG rock crabs, and anchovies to jig up on top of perch and pokepoling all are viable opportunities; can't get better than that.
As an amateur fisherman I appreciate you sharing such useful information ❤!!! most CZcamsrs now a days don’t thinks it’s “right” to share locations😒…..
It's also a problem on my PFIC Message Board. We used to get maybe 50 messages a day but get few today.
I live in Fresno and my favorite is Oceanside pier I go there every month and coast guard pier
I too live in Fresno, perhaps we should have a cup of coffee some day?
It’s in Nor Cal but Point Arena Pier is by far the best ocean pier to fish. Plenty of action
I lived for 20 years in Boonville which is just over the hill from Point Arena and it was my "home" pier. It can be a great pier but I don't consider it the best pier except for during the spring when the large striped seaperch move in. Sometimes it's a fish or two on almost every cast if you know what you're doing. Lots of good-sized cabezon and an occasional lingcod.
I like fishing with lures and fishing top water in warmer socal waters.
It just depends on the species you're after.
Remember those big sawfish at Seal Beach Pier in the 60s and 70s... I seen a Giant Black SeaBass Seal Beach Pier late 60s....from Redondo to San Diego....I've looked in a lot of buckets!
Eric Underwood Class of 81 Downey High school CA ✌️❤️🇺🇸
Do they have over night fishing at seal beach pier ?
I used to drive to the pier before channel islands but they don't have over night anymore
@@JohnDoe-ob9dv Unfortunately, I believe it is now only open from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Cool video
Hey Ken you forgot to mention Ventura Pier great fishing there too
I've had some great trips there and I imagine I missed several piers given that I've now fished 137 piers in the state.
have you ever fished paradise cove pier, its really great there
I have fished the Paradise Cove Pier many times and had good success but today it is just a small stub of a pier, nothing like the original large, multi-purpose pier that even had a fishing landing on the pier. Nevertheless it still has good fishing (if you can afford the parking fee).
@@kenjones2860 Last I heard, it was $40.00 to park. If you eat at the restaurant you get a reduced rate.
I despise the act of fishing (unless a survival situation) but I like your attitude
Sounds hypocritical. You can think of fishing as a survival situation.
Anyone who doesn't eat the fish they catch can definitely be frown upon. The idea of fishing is that the environment is so rich you can literally go to th3 shore and catch edible food. To catch it, eat it, and hopefully share it is truly a magical moment. You don't have to be the one catching it, seeing someone catch a fish is a spectacle already as it is.
Fishing is also another way in checking in on an ecosystem that is easily accessible to us as humans.
If fisherman start catching not native species, that's a clear indication of climate change or something just as bad within the native species.
As he mentioned a time where people were catching nothing but tunas!, right near a pier that's crazy and that shows you at the one time either nature was truly flourishing that year or something could be spooking the tuna to swim to close to shore as they are more deep sea fish.
Fish are just one of the many food items that are available for human consumption, just like hunting on land both show how rich and healthy your environment is around you.
Everyday for all of us is a survival situation, however out environment and self control is what allows us to live a life as freely as we do.
Hope if you've never fished before to give it a try sometime. The process of it all is intense I warn you but if handled responsibility it'll be truly something worth it. Goodluck if you try fishing
Yep, Aliso pier 70's
It was a nice pier.
The sad truth is the photos from the past... 1950's, 60's, when you could catch Albacore Tuna off most Southern California piers and Steelhead in rivers (Ventura River to be exact) that weighed in the 20/30 lb range. Photos I've seen (I'm 72) of buddies fathers & grandfathers holding up stringers of enormous Steelhead while standing on the bridge (just before the river meets the sea at California Street)
Photos of party boats from Oxnard, Channel Islands, Santa Barbara that needed gunny sacks & wheel barrels to get the catch off the boat and to the fisherman's car because the load was so heavy. The party is over ! We used up ALL the fun (fish)
The Baby Boomers did it :)
We got the photos to prove it !
I almost got killed, or at least had my life threatened by a thug (they like to fish piers too unfortunately)- over a post on the pier fishing web forum about 20 years ago, 21 to be exact. Maybe 2 posts, as I posted about a bonito bite and the next day the pier was over run by meat fisherman of a certain persuasion, which pissed off the regulars, then relplying to a post about a bat ray catch I was there to witness, i think it was because I mentioned the first name of the guy who caught it. It was his brother who was the one who confronted me, shoved me, knocked my hat with my license into the water, and said he didnt care about going to prison for killing someone.
I should mention this was balboa, which i was technically a local living in costs mesa, and these guys were from san Bernardino county.
If you know so cal, you know how much hate in general is in that area, gangs and intolerance and corrupt police so everyone is on edge, part of the problem or affected by the problems.
I was much younger and didn't know or understand about my aspergers, so I would post TMI all the time and many misunderstandings would break out over the years, on several different hobbies/intrests I would cycle through with over enthusiasm (aspergers thing) over the years since about 1996 (thjs happened in 2003)
And technically I am doing similar here.
Good video. Pier wise would advise that Santa Cruz wharf is not a nice place anymore. Parking is 2 hr.'s only on the pier then you must leave. Local City Council is forcing full day anglers/ visitors to pay full parking rate at the board walk parking thus you have to carry your gear a long ways and also pay 30 bucks a day The overflow parking lot near the San Lorenzo river to pier is a very long walk with gear. same cost. Area is also full of trolls and drug addicts that will still anything like your gear , phones, other fish you caught while fighting a fish ETC. Multiple Meth troll scumbags and heroin druggies. The best fishing holes in season, primarily fishing for Halibut ,are also claimed by walk in local's at day break and a visitor will be " Point break harassed ".
Parking at Capitola pier is actually worse, 20 spots only at the pier parking lot , 4 have time restrictions when you can park and 1 disabled spot on the pier itself. Same deal with metered parking in the city with time limits. Capitola has a upper overflow parking lot but its a long long walk to the pier,. Seacliff pier / State Park wise: Pier is severely damaged with only 1/3 the pier left open and hundreds try to fish off an area that barely holds 25. Seacliff is plagued with bird poop flies, yellow jacket wasps, and rangers that write tickets for nearly anything. All three suck!!!!
Pacific pier is haunted with pollution that is why there is no more fish
Given the sewage outfall pipes, the bottom could be more polluted even though the released water has been treated. However, in my opinion the two major factors at play in the decrease in catch from the "BIG" years are unrelated to any sewage/pollution issue (and the catch of Dungeness crabs on the bottom remains good). (1) The use of Sabikis by so many anglers, and the "nets" being used by so more and more anglers to catch small fish, has impacted the numbers of perch and whatever other small species show up in the nets or on the Sabikis. Nets are legal but many of the anglers keep anything that shows up in the nets and legal limits are regularly ignored. (2) In reference to the drop-off in the number of salmon, water temperatures and the influx of bait fish, mainly anchovies, plays a major role. Although salmon are still caught, they are rarely caught in the numbers once seen and I think it's mainly due to less bait fish and other smaller fish, including small perch (per #1). Pollution may play a role but the answer to good versus bad fishing is often a complex issue and encompasses a complex answer.
@@kenjones2860 Anglers don't affect the stocks of ocean fish much. The amount of fish they catch are minuscule compare to what Commercial fishermen haul in. Commercial Fisherman, Industrial pollution, and climate changes are the main reasons for the declining sea life in the ocean.
@@walden6272 In the "big picture" of overall fish populations you are correct. And, it's especially true with piers and pier species. It's one reason why during the MLPA process in California we were able to see basically no new restrictions placed on piers. However, there is no doubt that anglers can have a negative impact on specific areas and species. One of the latest example of this was at the Cabrillo Mole in Avalon, Catalina. The Mole was closed for a period of time when it was being repaired and the fish at the Mole were basically undisturbed for over a year. Upon reopening, the Mole saw great fishing, especially for sheephead a resident species. The great fishing meant more anglers at the Mole and within a few months fish catches started to decrease and returned to pre-closure levels. Were the "big picture" fish populations of the fish like sheephead decreased to any measurable levels? Perhaps not. But that area certainly saw a decrease in resident species due to the heavy angling and it's a story often repeated. In reference again to the MLPA, it's one reason why even though many restrictions were placed on sport anglers (and there were big fights over those restrictions), even tougher restrictions were generally placed on the commercial fishermen.