So that was you throwing the flies amongst the hoard of conventional fishers!  I took one look and headed up the coast to Elwood to get banged around by the surf.  
Kind of tough out there with a little to much swell and to little structure.  The harbor is messed up with the dredging.  This is a special project which unfortunately has little to do with ecology and more to do with boaters and beach goers emotions. The small dredge they are using on the spit can not get the right conformation but will generate the needed yardage to suffice the contract. The city gave up on dredging themselves decades ago because of this as well as a change in economics. What has been forgotten is now being relearned.    At least we are recycling some of what sand is left on the beaches back up the coast to Goleta.  We will have to see about all this but I fear in the future this effort will be viewed as one done in the ignorance of natural processes yet to be recognized or simply ignored for their importance.  
 
I like 34007 Mustad hooks myself.  The sc-15s are of merit and Lee B uses them pretty much exclusively on his patterns I think. You got to keep that tail short especially with walleye perch and the smaller barred perch. I can say that you will never get short bit by a larger perch...it's just the little guys taking a big bite! Now the matter of sensing when your fly gets sucked by a larger fish is another thing and a pursuit of a lifetime forged by thousands of casts and retrieves.  
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