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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 ...

With Barrett closed on the first Wednesday of the month, I needed a fix. Got to the bridge around 115 with about 3 hours until high tide. Started where it was wide open last time and spent an hour+ for 0 fish. Used the trolling motor for a slow controlled drift and got into a few fish out in ...

Fyi- this isnt my pb.

There was a time in the early 90s when i life dream was to catch a legal halibut. I fished the bay every weekend. My first legal was 30" on live bait and eventually i had several under my belt. Soon my fishing dream was catch a legal hali in a lure. Took a couple years, then ...

From your post, it sounds like you have not been surf fishing much, so I would highly recommend giving it a try.


It's funny that you said that, I actually tried surf fishing at mission beach for the first time last week :D . Used a carolina rig with a size 2 mosquito hook and a 1 oz sliding ...

Haven't posted on here in a long time. Finally, I have the chance to start fishing again more than a few times a year. Was out on Mission Bay from 6am to about noon. Bite died at about 10am. Got a total of 28 unless you count the 9 lizardfish. A mixed bag 2 yellowfin croaker, 1 sculpin, 15 (2 legal ...

galen wrote: Tue Aug 05, 2025 5:23 pm Nice outing. Any size to the calicos?

No, unfortunately not. they were all pretty small 10"-11" were as big as they got.

galen wrote: Tue Aug 05, 2025 5:23 pm Nice outing. Any size to the calicos?

Yeah, I fish heavier when I'm fishing around hard structure. But if I'm fishing grass, I have a lot more fun with the lighter setup.

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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Idk, I think it was a halibut. Believe me, I threw big lures in the area for about 4 hours after seeing that.