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My father and I caught some pinky size live smelt off of the Ferry Landing pier then headed to North Island for a two and half hour afternoon session. I was practically skunked landing just a cigar size lizard fish that gulped down one of those pinky size smelts at the end of my hook throughout my ...

Haven’t posted in a long time.
Simple rig: size 4 bait hook above 2 oz pyramid weight. Shrimp for bait.
Incoming tide last night.
Behind the Bahia.
Also caught but pictures shy: 2 small smooth hound sharks. 1 stingray

Rented a Skiff out of Coronado and fished the bay. Caught a legal Halibut [no picture as she wasn't cooperating] a sick Sculpin several deep spotties and a skiff pulling batray....We were looking for sand bass but to no avail.

Fished MB this weekend from 6-8am. With all the bait in the water recently I've been working the jerkbait. Some spots had tons of suspended weeds but I just kept walking and found some clear spots. Seems like the action has slowed down a bit, not as many boils this weekend. Still got a few ...

0530-0730
Spotties on Texas rigged worm.
No love on the lucky craft.

https://youtu.be/vwg_r4ODmK8
Hey all!
I finally made it back out onto Mission Bay Friday for a couple hours. The tide had very little water movement, but I still wanted to get out there. I tried some new baits for me from Hook Savvy Baits and ended up really liking their small swimbaits on the 1/8oz ...

Well. I’ve had my moments of luck so far, but nothing quite like this one yet. Fishing one of my go to spotty spots, and was working my last few casts before heading back to the car. It was after sunset, and I had seen a few small ripples on the water. I had a free rig tied in with a 3” fluke, so I ...

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 ...

Took the kayak out with my son and grabbed some perfect sized sardines from the bait barged. Trolled while throwing plastics. Around 3pm the bite picked up and got 6 barracudas, 4 spotties, 1 halibut. Was expecting a slow day but turned out pretty decent.

First day of wabbit season...at the south end of the Cays.

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Water wasn't really moving yet....the crazy spotty bite should be going off any time....any minute now...just about now...heck, I'll take a consolation fish...

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Eventually scratched up a few ...

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 ...

galen wrote: Fri Dec 05, 2025 6:38 am That’s some good fishing. Boat/tube/kayak? Any specific areas that produced better?

Fishing from a boat. We caught most of our fish drifting the flat out from the Cays. Got some in the cove at Silver Strand also.

Nice outing, 41 nice day

Nice sesh! 41 is a great day.

galen wrote: Sat Dec 06, 2025 7:20 pm . Wife outfished me again,

Don't cha just hate when that happens? ... Just kidding, it's fantastic to fish with the family.. You guys done good...
Butch

Only took 5 years but i finally landed a bonefish- kinda
Day1- Fished with Chris, the current was flowing and the spotties were biting for me , everything biting for him
Me: Loads of spotties, 1 missed bonefish at the board
Chris: Spotties, corvina, halbut, bones
Decided i needed to get back out ...

Thanks for the post! I was going to write my own but I will just add to this one. That was an epic day on the water and not even half of the fish we caught made my video. I can't wait to get out there again soon. Cheers!

Decided on a rare trip to the salt. Not my usual because I have so much tied up in my fresh water gear and the salt doesn't exactly play well with them. Still i figured a sh!t ton of thorough rinsing should take care of it for one trip.

I put in at J street marina and fished the grass and dropoff ...

After watching the Beefshamen and McQuade tearing up the back bay on a recent high tide, we plotted out this weekend’s king tides to take our shot. As the week progressed we wondered if the weather would cooperate and juggled days last minute to today. Got the reward with my first bonefish and a ...

Headed out to Shelter Island around 630 for what turned into a gorgeous morning on the water. The tide was super high and not even at it's projected highest at 9ish, you can see from the point by the Bali Hai. I wasn't having much luck at my usual spots, some hits but no pins. I decided to try ...