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Heavy rain associated with Hurricane Hilary is also expected to impact California and the Southwest starting Saturday and lasting through early next week, with peak impacts expected on Sunday and Monday.

As of Friday at 8:00 A.M., Hurricane Hilary remains a large and powerful Category 4 Hurricane ...

Thanks for posting the video. Great job out there. I always like trying new water. Been wanting to try that for years and will hit it soon. PS. Took my wife fishing once (she lasts about an hour) and right at dusk I hear "whoops" from the back of the boat. I turn around and she is no longer holding ...

My Elsinore experience was similar except for the hookups. 6 1/2 hours of trolling Flicker Shads. Was it my squeaky seat, bad peddling technique, 8 pound Fluorocarbon leader too distracting? Beautiful Day in February.

Fished shore this morning for wipers from shore, didn't land one. Did get a few large mouths. Plus my bait and wait pole got some huge carp

I will kick of this forum with the 1st post. I had been fishing South San Diego Bay for the last few month, had the quantity but not the quality of spotties. Got 29 spotties, 1 mackerel, 1 corvina and 1 halibut (18") float tubing yesterday. The spotties were nice sized for a change, several in the ...

9 and 7 pounders. shore fishing south bay. 1/2 bass jig. 8lb test. unibutter.

Great to see the site back up again, and that good triumphed over evil in this case (last dig I promise)! I hadn’t been posting much in the months leading up to the original forum’s untimely demise, but thought I’d post a quick report. Cold water has made the corvina fishing tough but some are still ...

Hit the south bay yesterday. Only a 2.9 foot tidal swing, but the fish bit ok. I got 25 spotties. Quality was good with a number of almost 14 inchers. Caught most of the fish in 5-8 feet of water on 1/4 oz jigs with shad tail plastics. Got a couple of corvina and one halibut in the mix also.

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Headed up to Carlsbad area to have a look around lagoons at low tide during the last grunion run.

Not much luck on the halibut, a few mixed bag little critters on various fave plastics and the opaleye ate a MORF perch grub bounced on the bottom. Some aggressive little fish in the lagoon ...

First time posting here. Fished Spanish Landing Monday and Wednesday nights. Big school of corvina on Monday, a lot of spotties and one barred sand bass on Wednesday. Fast action from about 8 to 10:15 pm. Success came on kalins solid black 5 inch lunker grubs on 3/8th oz Walmart lead heads for both ...

Vantuna Research Group published their 2022 survey a few months back. You can read the 82-page report here. They conduct this trawl and seine survey twice a year, every few years, so it's interesting to see the seasonal differences within a year, as well as trends over time. Additionally, they ...

Got in some more corvina fishing recently. More quantity over quality compared to before but still some pretty fun fishing. All caught on rapala shadow rap or spook. I’ve really been liking the shadow raps lately. They seem to have better action than LCs even though they don’t cast as far (also ...

Cancelled my freshwater plans after the rain. Slept in all morning. Jumped in the water at 9:45(slack tide) calm and empty. Got bit right off.

I had a 1/4oz jig on 6lb and 1/2oz jig on 8lb. Crawling them deep in the middle of the bay. I got out at 12:30 cause it got crowded and windy.

Ended with ...

Really solid Halibut fishing in the bay the last couple of weeks from skiffs, kayak, and shore. Using sardines, smelt, and double rig with underspin and white gulp swimbaits.

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Been fishing fiesta island on the way home from work the past month for the magic hour around sunset and and catching a few bass on lucky crafts every outing while trying to dodge the weeds, and while not many, I get 3-4 every night with most of them are nice ones in the 12-15 range(the top one was ...

Been a while since I checked the new site. Here's a couple small ones from this past weekend.

I was fishing South shores. In the morning between 6:30 and 11:30, caught a lot of bass. Over 15 at least lost count. I used z man TRD bugz Texas rigged. And a trolled chartreuse, white spinnerbait.

Day 1- Hiked into Ramona at sunrise. After about 45 minutes my dog got a foxtail burr in her ear, so we hiked back out and went to the animal hospital. No fish for you.
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Day 2- South bay shallows mud flats hoping for exotics.Very windy, very poor fishing ...

I manage to make only 4 good sized smelt and fished spanish landing for 3 hours.

Scratched a few bass on artificial and a couple smelt and caught a 20 inch hali