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For me with the new time change (I wish it would stay this way) I prefer the evening bite I can get a few things done during the day and I have more time get my fishing plan down, but it’s close almost a flip of a coin.
I’ve wondered this myself.

I like fishing early morning. Get in and out before the crowds. Plus if I'm in my canoe the wind doesn't pick up usually till the afternoons.

Morning, 1st light if possible. Easier parking, fish before the afternoon boat traffic, mostly beat the wind. Even on a slow day and small tide swing, often will pick up a few 1st thing in the morning, especially if it isn't cloudy.

Doesn't seem to be any advantage to getting out before 1st light ...

It's probably been 4 months since I caught a fish, but I've kept trying. Sunday I was using a slow pitch jig for not it's intended use, throwing it way out, letting it sink, then slowly dragging and popping off the bottom. Hooked up what I thought would be a small spotty or small hali, ended up ...

I go by the Tide. Some spots are good at low Tide, some high Tide, some while the water is moving between the two.

Highly prefer morning to avoid boat traffic and winds. You usually have the bay all to yourself when launching right at sunrise.

Only got seven spotties, but a nice day on the water.
Three of the bass were decent sized, 13 to 14 inches.
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Didn't to get pics of all of them, but at the end of the day I wish I had, to show the color range. One was brown and white, this one was medium, and the biggest ...

I finally found this forum after missing the old site since it shut down. Today I went out to my usually fishy rocky spot in MB and aside from two short strikes, had no action in 2 hrs of fishing. Sun came out at the end and cleared up the water. though I can usually see some action around the rocks ...

Fishing San Diego Bay: Figure Out The Bite!
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Hey all I hope you’re getting out there and finding the fish wherever you are. I did get out Sunday to tidelands to launch the float tube. I had an idea in mind to fish Corvina and BFS bass. That being said, I threw out my BFF ...

Thursday I decided to test iout my boat after doing some work to the motor. I wasnt expecting doing much fishing due to the tide was going out and I found they were dredging the mouth of the harbor. Fishing during the dredging I have found is not the ideal time to fish much less that the tide was ...

Went over on yak to Embarcadero side bay over by dole boat I did pretty good in that marina there where they launch the ferry early before tide hit to high prob 10 spotty and a baby calico decided to see if anything wanted to bite out deep drifting dragging a double rig I ended up w total about 15 ...

I went fishing 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.. caught 9 Bass. Biggest ones were 15 inches. The other ones were like 10 inches. Tried the free rig, sometimes I didn't know I had a fish on till I reeled up, lost a few not having a good hook set.

My son and I have been skunking so bad but I bought a kayak and we went out for the first time and got lucky. He caught 2 spotties, 2 calico, 1 sand bass, 1 halibut, and a spotfin on gulp plastics. I only caught one keeper halibut on live sardines trolling but we had a blast.

Finally got out to the bay wanted to get on some shark and ray. Got this thing instead. New pb 9 lb 24 inches. Fought well even on my shark setup

galen wrote: Sun Apr 27, 2025 6:40 am Those are some nice ones. How do you set up your double rig?

I go heavier weight on bottom lighter smaller bait up top on a rotating triple swivel at 50ft w current I use 3/4 bottom 1/8 or 1/4 up top kinda thing swimbaits what I use

Drifted to north island fished that side nothing but lizard fish moved mid channel my buddy was hammering sandbass on a rig I got couple on double rig moved over toward tom hamm got couple fat spotty no matter where u went there big fat lizard fish everywhere around harbor and north island ended up ...

I have been teaching some Bass Fishing 101 to a local neighborhood kid. He truely loves to fish! We started out fishing our local park lake and within a couple of weeks he was nailing Bass on his own. We practice knots, I show him how to work baits and basic rigging. Yesterday we went on his first ...

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Homemade chatterbait, 10lb mono.

I took me 10 tries to get her in the net. Evertime I got her head in, she would back out and shoot down. This fish knew exactly what a net was and exactly how to avoid it. I finally got her in because she was ...

Went out for a very rare night session. Treated with a spacex launch last week.

Woke up to a beautiful day and wanted to be part of it. Plus I've been hitting Barrett hard and needed to look at a different kind of fish for a session.

Fished 1-5pm. Fishing was wide open until about 20 minutes before low tide and then picked up again starting about 40 minutes into the incoming ...