Dec 17th -- Manresa Perch with Bill (lots of pictures)

old photo.

here's the story from surfline.com:

Back in the '80s, one of the surf magazines ran a black and white Don Montgomery photo of an unidentified hellman bottom-turning on an unidentified hellwave, somewhere in Northern California. This was all pre-Maverick's, but that wave gave some indication of what was to come in this neck of the woods.

The surfer, it turns out, was a guy from the Delta named Brian Zelles. And the wave was at Rockaway Beach. This rocky little cove is the first accessible stretch of coast after Sharp Park. The main break at Rockaway is a right that breaks on the south end of a beach, into a deep channel along the point. That channel makes it possible to get out on the biggest days, and Rockaway Beach definitely has some big days.

Limit and size on surf perch....

~Theres no size limit on any of the surfperch with an exception of Redtail perch. Redtail serfperch has to be a minimum total length of 10-1/2 inch.

~Limit is five in any combination of species, except for shiner surfperch, limit is twenty (20)

for more info look in ocean sport fishing California marine regulations page 34. paragraph 28.59 surfperch

Alien,  I to snagged a large fish in its dorsal fin.  However my fish was a 10-12lb carp snagged by a yellow roostertail on 6lb test with my 5' ugly
stix (my trout rod) I snagged it up on the McCloud River arm (all the way up about 300yds from bridge) of lake Shasta. 
  Talk about a fight!  I feared I was going to get spooled out!  That thing had absoultly no desire to be close.  Working my drag, I was able to keep enough line on the reel and eventually (about 10min) I was able to land it.  I was fan casting and felt a light tap and figured it was a hit, so, I set the hook and OMG! ZZEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. It was in the wrong place at the right time for me! The lure was shot after that!
  Released it. 

Hi Jprtroy,

I take it that you were going for trout. I could just imagine what was going through your mind when you were fighting this fish on six pound test.

cool stuff when your after a certain fish and get a surprise


Alex