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[CurrySonic]

Hi everyone!

New poster here! I was just wondering if anyone has any tips for fishing at Banet Marine Park. If its good I want to buy a tidal license and start going there as I live 8 minutes away by car.

I've been fishing for trout, so my set-up is just the regular float set up, although some local anglers taught me how to change to bottom fishing. Today I just caught my first fish, a pike minnow at deer lake! (No trout yet.... after around 10 trips to como, la farge, deer)

So;

-What can I catch from shore casting?
-Should I stick with the float or change my set-up?
-What bait should I use?
-Whats the best time to go fishing in that area or in tidal influenced zones in general?
- Any additional tips.

Thanks everyone! I look forward to discovering new areas and ways to fish!

https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Barnet+Marine+Park/@49.290432,-122.923738,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x5486798de3a21d73:0x2790e0339c216d11

[MetalAndFeathers]

Its simple bottom rig with a short leader to a size 8 hook with shrimp.You will catch either flounder or bullheads.

[RyanB]

Barnet Marine Park is too shallow for anything big.  Drive to Belcarra for crab, flounder and greenling.  Sasamat is great for trout if the weather is right.

[CurrySonic]

Barnet Marine Park is too shallow for anything big.  Drive to Belcarra for crab, flounder and greenling.  Sasamat is great for trout if the weather is right.

Well, I don't plan on catching anything big. But Belcarra sounds like a nice weekend trip (Thought I think it might be faster for me to swim there than drive all the way around haha)!

Thanks for the tips!

[Mkulak]

Its simple bottom rig with a short leader to a size 8 hook with shrimp.You will catch either flounder or bullheads.

Are we talking about store bough deli shrimp or something else?  Excuse my ignorance as I spent a lot of time fishing with live shrimp in tidal waters in Florida but I've also seen lots of mentions of using deli shrimp on other websites etc.

[Funeral Of Hearts]

Store bought deli shrimp. Cure them the night before in some pickling salt to firm it up.

[MetalAndFeathers]

I just use it out of the pack.But i also tend to use fresh prawns too for the bigger flounder.

[CurrySonic]

Store bought deli shrimp. Cure them the night before in some pickling salt to firm it up.

Ohhh... Thanks! I've been having trouble with those kind of deli shrimp falling off the hook too easily... might be because I accidentally left them out of the fridge for a night accidentally. They smell pretty bad but I thought the fish would like it. Half was suppose to be for pasta though =(

[Bavarian Raven]

Hook. Weight. Worms. Earth worms that is. Caste out as far as possible and let it sink to the bottom and wait. You'll get flounder (most under a pound, but a few up to three or four pounds if you fish long enough), greenling, bullheads, and a whole variety of other things including perch. Best time to go fishing there is when the tide is near it's high point. Hike to the west of the parkinglot and fish off of the "rock edge" (where rocks have been piled to stop errosion - be careful, it can be slippery there).

Good luck. Cheers.

[CurrySonic]

UPDATE

So yeah, Barnet isn't that great.

Some parts are pretty rocky or a little bit weedy. It got better when I added one of those buoyant beads on my leader, but I think that would make the bait not accessible to flounder.

The area where they put large rocks to prevent erosion looked pretty good. But it was so covered in wet weed. Event if I made it down without cracking my head, I'm pretty sure I would have never made it back up.

Overall, I need to find a new tidal fishing area. Lots of people crabbing though!

[TimL]

Went fishing there yesterday in the late afternoon-early evening when the tide was rising. Fished at both the pier and the lookout point west of the pier using pieces of shrimp as bait. Caught a variety of fish, mostly small but kept a nice sized greenling and a striped sea perch fished off the rocks (with some tackle losses!). Also caught and released 4 species of sculpin (bullhead), sanddab, shiner perch, and a snake prickleback. Lots of crabbers were out as well but not many with keeper sized crabs.

[CurrySonic]

UPDATE 2

Ok I was wrong about Barnet lol!

Went over east a little bit, over to where the platform is beside the beach. Its alot easier to cast and retrieve out there without getting stuck on something. Caught a sculpin, lots of soles, and a flounder. All on shrimp, using a simple egg sinker and line combo. Anyone have better set-up suggestions though? I'm still loosing hooks here and there from digging into who knows what.







They were all really small though. I'm assuming bigger ones are further in the middle of the water. Anyone have any input on this?

[Bavarian Raven]

The setup is fine, but you'll just need to explore/learn where the rocky bottoms are and where the sandy bottoms are, if you want to stop loosing tackle, or else use a float and go for perch.

[TimL]

That's the setup I use too. The 2nd flatfish is a speckled sanddab, Citharichthys stigmaeus..very common in shallow water- they don't get much bigger than that. The starry flounder you got there however can get much bigger. 
If you fish west of the pier at the lookout point (crabbers use it too) near the bay marker, you can jig close to the structure  (or use a float) at high tide for perch and greenling- no need to cast far. However you will have to somehow get past the shiners though.