WHERE ARE THE WHITE SEA BASS AT???

[gvanzant]

Joe: I know where a bunch of them are! I was riding my bike around the Marine Stadium and stopped to watch a guy fishing at the drain of the Colorado Lagoon into the Stadium. He had a stringer of white sea bass the biggest being about 10 inches. He had caught 10 of the babies on small live smelt.Of course I educated him on the size limit and he gracefully released them but I'm not sure whether they made it, they seemed too though as they struggled off the chain. He thought they were sand bass and caught lots of them during the last low tides of the week. Alamitos Bay is a nursery for sea bass and barracuda and many don't know that. It's almost impossible to catch a legal of either kind, but it's really easy to catch lots of them. I patrol most of the fishing spots for my bicycle exercise and educate many people about them. It's amazing that so many anglers can't identify fish. (or don't care).
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