San Diego & SoCal Fishing Forums

28 LMB and not at Barrett, dang what a day.

Sounds like you’re due for a fish or two! I fish predominantly from a raft but techniques and gear are similar. You can try downsizing on your drop shot set up to a 2.5” curly tail grub. If you’re missing fish you may be getting short bit. A smaller presentation can get them all the way on the hook ...

Absolute tank. There’s no line class record for 10lb, it’s all yours! For all the stories I’ve heard of someone losing “ a 4ft long halibut at the net”, you got her in the bag! Time for a gaff.

Thanks for the report. May give that area a shot this weekend.

Fish #2 looks like it healed from a nice injury in the past.

I went out with the Mrs. this morning. Her first fish was a nice little butterfly ray, her first. A few fish here and there. We headed back down toward J Street around 11:30 and drifted in front of the Cays. She figured out what they wanted (3” Big Hammer) and proceeded to catch 15 fish over the ...

Not another angler in sight , nice.

Heck of a fish. Great table fare. Let us know how you prepare it.

Heck of a fish. Great table fare. Let us know how you prepare it.


I don’t have much experience cooking fish yet, so we kept it easy and made some fish tacos. My kids loved the whole experience! I can see why everyone raves about corvina. I’ll keep it a little simpler with the rest ...

Geez, with a title like that I was expecting to hear you say you got 4 or 5! I fished Saturday, murky water no current, slow for me as well. But then again my best days usually sound like others’ off days😉 I love my raft but I don’t like dock hopping, spend more time repositioning than fishing. Out ...

Went out with the Mrs. this morning. Fished the area I should have fished last weekend after seeing a few promising posts this week. Bite was hot up to the slack tide, then wasted some time looking around. Came back to the south Cays area after a while for a steady pick. Clicker read 41 when we ...

That’s a catch for sure.
This bonefish is probably my biggest from a month ago. Bit a 4” white swimbait on a Warbaits Neckbreaker of all things. Barely had it hooked with their smaller hard mouth.

Way to sneak it in. Those bonefish are fast.

After procrastinating for months I finally got the lights rigged up on my raft. Went with two guys from work, got out to the end of the Zuniga jetty about 6. Very calm around the south side. After finding a spot with no pots started throwing 5” swimbaits. 1st calico about 10 minutes later, then my ...

Had a random day off today and decided to check a few things off the list. I patched a hole on the raft so I wanted to make sure it was holding. I got a new fish finder that I wanted to test out. I also got a DJI action camera from the Mrs. for Christmas. I wanted to get familiar with it ...

Some good ones, glad you finally got on a few.

Fished with 2 friends again, solid 2 hours of daylight this time. Fishing very slow till sundown. Brown rockfish were biting, a few small calico. Highlight of my night was a decent sculpin on a craw bait.Beautiful evening and perfect weather for spotting birds on baitballs out at the point, no such ...

Fished today, south of the bridge still very turbid. My ff topped out at 72 degrees. We got a dozen fish.

Yum

Got back down to Baja after a few years. We’re on day 3 of our first trip here. Fished this morning around Isla Coronado on a very bare bones panga. Captain didn’t speak a word of English so thankfully my Spanish was enough to make it work.
The terminal tackle was circa 1980’s Ugly sticks and ...