Redondo Beach

I spent a lot of time around Redondo Beach. I recall seeing the Godfather at Fox Redondo for 75 cents. I caught just about everything out of Redondo Sportfishing. Yellowtail, White Sea Bass, Calico and Sand Bass, Halibut, Black Sea Bass, various sharks, all sorts of rockfish - chilis, grouper, starries, reds, lings - just all kinds of fish. There was also a period of time I fished inside King Harbor. Unbeknownst to most, King Harbor is home to some of the largest Spotted Sand Bass (aka Bay Bass) on the coast. Somewhere along the line we discovered that the Harbor Master (Harbor Police) left his office for about an hour or two between 2 and 3 in the morning. I went fishing there with a lot of friends. But the one I spent the most time fishing there with is Bryan. We would fish all along the walkway by the boat docks with bass rods, 15 lb test and black worms of various kinds - texas style. Some of the bay bass were large - 5 lbs or better sometimes. We never kept any of them - just catch and release. Another one of the guys I fished there with would eventually get his PhD in fisheries and teach back East - DeWayne. He actually ended up mounting one of the larger ones. Anyway, we normally fished the tides - and it was generally good. The Harbor Master's docks were something else. There were three different basses there - bay, sand and calico basses. Not sure that we ever got any big ones - but lots. There were times when the slots were not biting very well. We would climb out on the breakwall in back of the Harbor Master's offices - right under his window. We could hear him talking on the phone sometimes. There was something vicarious about fishing where you weren't supposed to - right under the nose of the police.