Historic saltwater "Barge" fishing on the CA coast - history

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/featu...ce=govdelivery

Very interesting and never heard anything about it.

[Tony Buzolich]

Bill,
Judging by those pictures they may have been around before you were born. Note too that they were mostly around southern California.

[Woodman]

Bill,
Judging by those pictures they may have been around before you were born. Note too that they were mostly around southern California.

They were still around in the late 1960's and early 1970's when I was a kid. You got shuttled out from the pier and found your place at the rail. Back in the day, you could actually catch a fair number of fish from these barges. I remember the newspaper used to have fish reports every day from the barges and party boats. How many fish of each species caught.

For obvious reasons, I never saw anyone fly fishing from the barges

[Mel1c]

Growing up in SoCal as a teenager my friends and I would go out on the Redondo barge.

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

Growing up in SoCal as a teenager my friends and I would go out on the Redondo barge.

We would fly fish for Bonito in Kings Harbor at Redondo Beach near the bait barges.

In the 1970s we would tow our own aluminum boat down there.

Back then the Bonito were 5#and really screamed.

[Mel1c]

We would fly fish for Bonito in Kings Harbor at Redondo Beach near the bait barges.

In the 1970s we would tow our own aluminum boat down there.

Back then the Bonito were 5#and really screamed.

Yes, I didn’t fly fish yet but we would get those bonito on the surface using conventional gear. A real kick.