What do you do when it rains.

As it rains here in SoCal it's time to go through some tackle. I noticed I need some more Jika Rigs. So it's Jika Rig Build Time I will be 10 to 15 more getting ready for 2021.

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I either stand at the window and watch the rain hit the ground or I’ll go fishing.
I prefer the latter.
I have a rain jacket that I use for such weather conditions. lol

My gear is always ready, come rain or come shine.

SP Dan

I do maintenance of some sort.
Organize tackle boxes, lubricate reels, or replace bearings if I am ambitious.

Fish of course!
Some of my most prolific days ever were in the midst of a down pour!

Essentially we had a number of locations where we knew rain runoff would enter a larger body of water. For instance, one of my favorites was a culvert that drained from a golf course into a small private lake. When it rained, the earth worms would crawl, get swept into the culvert and down to the lake. The bass and catfish used to stack up in front of this spot like cordwood! Fishing in front of this thing was crazy at times.

Get the idea? So here are a few of my favorite inlet fishing spots to fish during (or just after) a downpour.

Sierra cove inlet at Irvine Lake - Gigantic trout
The creek inlet at Laguna Niguel lake - trout
The any of the creek inlets at Lake Casitas  - HUGE bass and catfish
The Yellow Bar Piru creek inlet at Lake Pyramid - Stripers
The Piru creek inlet to Piru lake - bass trout and catfish
The backs of almost every canyon cove at Castaic - bass, stripers


It works for the coastal waters as well....
The Malibu Creek inlet - steelhead (illegal now)
The Topanga Creek Inlet - steelhead (illegal)
The Ventura and Santa Clara river inlets  - stripers

....virtually anywhere that runoff comes into a standing body of water. Fish love moving water. Betcha there are a few around your area?

     bodfish

I have actually landed (5) five Stripped Bass from the surf, from Hermosa Beach up the coast to
El Segundo.
It happens here every year during the 1st rains of the year, at the storm drain pipe exhaust areas!
BLAM! Striper's!

SP Dan