There were mullet in the south part of the bay in SoCal.
found out they don't bite on bait very well. Didn't have a cast net or I'd have eaten them for sure.
Got a bunch of Pacific Herring on one our research cruises. Folks asked "You're gonna eat those bony things".
After smoking them well even our professor was asking for more. (He called me the "optimum forager" because if it was free, and edible, I'd be fixing it for food somehow. Starving student syndrome, you know)