The mad is notorious for misclips. Personally I release all the fish I catch like that. Not worth leaving it up to the discretion of the warden.

I fish the north jetty quite a bit and there's two rigs I usually use. Either a drop shot with a Texas rigged plastic or a traditional Texas rig with anywhere from a 1/2 oz to 1 1/2 oz depending on the conditions but usually 1/2 or 3/4 oz is the ticket. The key is rigging your baits weedless with a 3/0 to 5/0 wide gap hook because any exposed hook and you're going to snag. I use the dropshot for fishing further out and the Texas rig for poking around at my feet and for fishing Swimbaits. Change up the weights because there is usually a sweet spot where you can reach the bottom but not get hung up but that all changes day to day with the conditions. Sometimes just a 1/4 oz difference can make a huge change. Also a longer rod 9 ft + will help pop out the deep snags. Pm me if you have any other questions about the jetty

Good look  Just made an order

Hit the mouth today for my first time around 1:30. It was pretty packed so I found a spot on the spit closer to the river where I could have a little elbow room. Fished for an hour and picked up a nice 20 lber. That place is nuts with all the people and sea lions. They're hitting green beads 

Sounds like a great time. I think I might make a trip up tomorrow

I catch more/better rockfish on my shrimpfly when I use a jig or swimbait below a shrimpfly as apposed to just two shrimp flies. I think it helps draw some attention

Trinidad is getting pretty bad. Cover up and get in that meditated state. Or maybe medicated state, depending.....

Wind and catching lots of fish helps, but I can only take it so long.

Yes the fish definitely help take your mind off things. If I hadn't of been sitting on top of a nice school of blacks I would have been out of there much sooner. The meditated state doesn't work so well for me maybe the medicated state will 

As far as staying away from flat iron goes I was even covered in flies right in front of the head but there was also almost no wind that day too

Ok so it looks like covering up is going to be the best way. Thanks guys those things drive me nuts. No matter how many you swat it's never enough