I went to go fish at a rocky beach in Los Angeles County in Palos Verdes. As I get near the spot, I see an old man with one of those big old 14 foot rods. He’s taking a picture of something on the ground and then he sees me coming and starts to like hide it by putting some kelp on top. I walk by him and clearly see a bunch of fish under the kelp and compliment his catch and say wow nice eye opaleye. I set up away from him and start fishing, then see him packing up to leave and decide to steal his spot. Then I see like 6 big fish (and one baby 3 Incher) left to die in a kelp bed in front of the water. Dude had a GoPro strapped to him but was like a 50 year old Asian man. Why would anyone do that, leave huge and juvenile fish to die? By the time I walked over to his spot to steal it, most of the fish were dead.
I threw them all back into the water and two swam away and the rest were just dead .
Posted by ironmemelord
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Fish yakisoba
What a POS fisherman. The dude clearly doesn’t know his regulations and assumed that you walking towards him would expose his greed and possibly report his ass to CDFW. He probably is using that GoPro to record his catches and show his friends and family about how great the fishing spot is before his greedy ass got there.
Opaleye can be caught and kept at any size within a 10 fish per person bag limit, but he doesn’t know that because he doesn’t care to know about the regulations. Even if it’s legal, leaving the Opaleye to die out of water is so fucked up and just a total waste of resources. That’s why he hid all the fish underneath the kelp, so that way you don’t report him and he doesn’t get investigated for possible undersized or out-of-season catches.