Santa Cruz bait fish

Are the Bait still around? Please let me know..thanks!!!!

I would throw a cast net. If you hit a school, you will load up a full bucket in two throws. Don't need them to bite, just need them to be there. My two cents. 

Would you actually throw a cast net at the santa cruz wharf?  Might hit a sunbather!   

Was there last night. Pelicans were diving about 200m  from the pier at sunset. But people on the pier were only catching the odd fisher here and there.