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Originally Posted by Salty

Decided to brave the red tide today and hit DP. It was much worse this weekend than last. Last weekend the water cleared up at about 1.5 miles out. Today, it never really did 100%, even about 2-2.5 miles out. Fished live bait in around 150-250ft wherever I could find interesting bottom contours or marks. Got plenty of bites without takers, but I did eventually get a decent sculpin. On the way back to the buoy, marked a ton of fish at around 50' and decided to drop on them, even though the water looked like mud. Must have caught 10 calico and a few sand bass in the course of an hour there. Most undersized, but everything went back anyway. I stopped taking pics after the first couple as they were biting every time I dropped on a mark. Best fish were caught on a 1oz neon-green tube bait (hook up bait), not really much taking my live bait, but my buddy got a nice 19" sand bass on live. That one was released as well.

Thanks for the report. Were you jigging those Hookup baits?