Hit like a monster.

Brave little guy.  I'm new to CA fishing, what type of fish is this?

Looks like a juvenile grass rockfish.

Cute little one 

Ah, I thought it looked like a rock fish but then again it kinda looked like a bass to me.  Guess I have to start catching bigger ones lol this little guy is a cute one though.

looks like you caught live bait to me. hook em through the nose and send em back down

Lmao.....I was not expecting to see that with the title this thread had

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LOl. Where where were you fishing I like to catch one 

  
   Sure you using the right sized hooks?  Something that tiny, I think shouldn't have been able to get the hook.

" Bait"

I kid you not, I was striper fishing from Pt. Orient before I had my kayak and i saw my tip keep twitching.  I thought a crab was messing with the bait so I yanked then I decided to check the bait so I pulled my line in and saw he was hooked by the lip.  I thought about baiting him up but the little guy tugged at my heart strings and I threw him back.

Finally caught a ling on live bait last week. I caught a small black, put on a mooching rig with the top hook through the nose and the back hook dangling. I felt it the hit and brought it up nice and slow and netted a decent lingcod without it ever taking the hook. It just kept the death grip on the black's head for the whole ride up