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Took a trip down Memory Lane with shrimp pump in hand. Historically, good bite on incoming tide and today followed the pattern. '

23 or so fish, seven species. Sand and Spotted Bass, round ray, dink halibut, a buttload of chunky yellowfin croaker, diamond turbot and a rock wrasse.

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Hey all,
I headed out last Sunday to Mission Bay with the hopes to make a video about making lure fishing easier. I wanted to showcase 3 baits that are easy for anyone to catch fish with on the bay. The first was the chatterbait. I used both the traditional bigger bait ...

When I fish for Bat Rays I would go to the west side of Leisure Lagoon. Throw my line towards Fiesta Island . But have not done it in a long time.

You are near the right areas of the back section of Mission bay . I am not good at screen shots etc but the channel area north of leisure lagoon and between Fiesta Island and west MBD . You want some tide movement I prefer high going out , Lots of chum in the tide flow , note it will be moving north ...

Wrong time of year for the back of MB. It does better winter - spring.

Thank you for all the great info! I was fishing some fresh croaker the i caught a couple hours ahead. But I only received action on some smaller pieces of squid and grunion. Which lead me to believe I either wasn't getting my line out far enough or I was just in the wrong area. Are you casting out ...

I had a small window to get some fishing in this morning so I headed to beach, even knowing the tide was going to be pretty far out early in the morning. Regardless, I outdid my tiny croaker from last weekend with the smallest perch I’ve caught to date, just minutes after my first cast :lol ...

Spent a few hours at Mission Beach again today, and showed up to calm waters and a late arriving “high” tide. Sand crabs were plentiful but the bite was pretty slow. Reeled in a few times to see my crabs picked over without even feeling bites some of the time!

Regardless, skunk avoided. Caught a ...

A hali on a sand crab is indeed surprising. Heard of them being caught on Gulp worms, frozen anchovies & a few other baits but a sand crab is a real rarity. Big crab ? Re catching spotfins, just keep doing what you're doing. They will hit a lot of different baits, mussel, blood worms & ghost shrimp ...

I had a by catch Hali on a gulp sand crab. Heard of a couple others caught in the past. No legal ones though.

Also on Sand Crabs - Sand Bass, Calico Bass, Spotted Bay Bass, Striped Bass, Whitefish, Sheepshead, Striped Sea Perch, Walleyed Surf Perch, Opaleye, Sculpin, Lizardfish, Tomcod, White Croaker and Cabezon. Plus all the regulars.
Any more oddballs you have caught?

They will come. I got Whitefish last year. They are normally fairly deep water fish associated with rocks. There nickname is Razorgilled Bottom Dorado. That sort of says it all. I caught about 12 that day.
As far as answering the question about Ghost Shrimp, I use them on a Carolina style rig but ...