My grandaughter's first fish!! Gene, Charley and my granddaughter. Martha, Sean and Conner with their first fish! Me and Ruben - photo taken by my granddaughter. Tim (Sinker) and his daughter Kathryn.
Jim C. with another cabezon.
Goleta  Pier Snapshots page 1

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 My first (and only) legal halibut during the 2002 season. Halibut, for me, are an incedental catch as I don't target them. I consider each one I catch as a gift from the FishGods.
22 inch lingcod. They have just started to appear with some frequency in the westside kelp reef. Legal size is 24 inches (currently) - there is a proposal to increase the limit to 28 inches in 2004. No legals yet caught at Goleta. 10 inch Blue rockfish - a rather rare catch at Goleta.
Purple starfish are abundant in the channel between the pier and the kelp reef but it is unusual to actually catch one. Ruben (Halibut King) ... caught 42 legal halibut during the 2001 season. He fishes primarily from a float tube in the Goleta Bay.
One of the most frequent catches from the westside kelp reef at Goleta - an 8 inch small brown rockfish (SBRF). Photo credit: Tim Durham 14 inch Barred Surf Perch. The larger brood females start to appear in the surfline late winter and the run can last through June.
12 inch cabezon. 7 pound batray and an 18 pound, 41 inch shovelnose guitarfish. What can I say - who knows what you may 'catch' out on the pier. The top fish is a Spanish Mackerel (Mackerel Jack). At this size (4-5 inches) they are a perfect baitfish and will attract halibut, sand and kelp bass (Calico) as well as lingcod and olive rockfish (Johhny Bass). At the bottom is a decorator crab - notice how it appears to be a kelp frond? That's what I thought while stripping it from my line ... then it started to crawl up my arm! One of the occasional octopi taken at Goleta. This one escaped through a 1/4 inch gap in the pier decking.