we caught an opah this year, in 23 years of being on the water i've never seen an opah. >> a 120-pound opah, a fish usually found in the tropics, not off the coast of southern california. steve earwood is the skipper of the coroloma... a hook sport-fishing boat out of channel island harbor in oxnard california. >> normal water temperature this time of year is anywhere from 58 to 62 degrees. and right now its 67 to 72 degrees. >> the warm water brings all kinds of sea life much further north than usual. >> they're catching yellowtail and that's just unheard of. >> this 23-pound yellowtail, normally found 100 miles south of here, didn't disappoint. >> it's my first one! it gave me a workout! >> as we've seen, el nino impacts the pacific in many ways, but what about all the promise of rain it brings? much of the west has been in a drought for years, is el nino the "great wet hope" to solve the water emergency? bill pazert at jpl is not optimistic. >> we've seen drought building slowly for the last decade and a half. one el nino, one wet winter, will not be a drought buster. >> not far fro