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Testing.... Got this one on a mop fly with silly legs a few weeks back after a slow surf sesh.

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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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 ...

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 ...

Glad SDFish is back! I sorta lurked a lot but didn’t post often since I’m busy with school.

anyways, the beach I went to was still missing a lot of its sand from that one storm last winter (15 foot storm surge), and along with it a lot of the surf grass. didn’t seem to bother the leopards though ...

Back felt better. Wrap a back brace and let's do some moderate casting in the reefs. Again lost a big one that broke my 1/0 hook, but did land a few sheep over two sessions last weekend.

Start with "barely legal"
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This one is legal for sure
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Took a break from studying for finals and went out on the beach for 2 hours this afternoon, fishing the incoming tide. There were a ton of man-o-wars. It was very slow until ~6 pm, then the bass hit less than 30 seconds after a cast. Got the spotfin shortly after, then it was dead again until i ...

Went back out to the beach after getting a larger setup and boy am I glad I upgraded. Fished the incoming tide, about an hour after peak low. It was slow for a bit, only got that short 12" bass for the first hour. After moving down the beach a little, as the tide was coming up, I hooked onto ...

Have caught a few dinks in the surf recently. Nothing impressive at all. But today one short hali maybe 20” spit up this thing which i learned is a queenfish. Pretty cool

Walked down to a favorite beach spot to fish a weighted weedless swimbait (shown) along the sand/rock shoreline here, with much smaller surf today.

The recent south swells have migrated tons of sand north on my beach, and have unburied the local acres of eel grass - which is all dead and drifting ...

I just wanted to be the first one to post on a topic ahaha here's some fish from this year.

Stuff that you might not see on other boards.

1. I keep a little plastic tub with a snap-on lid in the tube. When I remove a lure, it goes into the tub rather than back with the other tackle. Easy rinse after fishing...let dry before putting back in the tackle box or bag.

I use an old beef jerky zip lock bag, the hooks don't snag in that type plastic and it takes up less room than a tub. Either way, critical for saltwater fishing.

I mostly fish the bay and let the tide take me out and back. Tubing is not that hard unless you are trying to kick against the tide or wind. If you stay inside the marina, it will be very easy. You should probably stick with inside the marina for the 1st few trips until you are comfortable with the ...

It's a pity the old forum is gone, there were plenty of good information there. I'm glad that I have found the new forum though. Hopefully, over time quality fishing content becomes available here as well.

I like Werfless because he likes everything good to see him posting on this new and revised SDfish fourum

What would a local fishing forum be without Werfless? Most likely not werfless, but maybe werf a little less.

I'm going to be moving to New England this fall. With only a few remaining months in SD, I knew that the one thing I absolutely had to do was fish Baja proper. I went once to Gonzaga with a couple friends on a road trip, and two weeks later went with my dad to Loreto via plane. Both trips were great ...