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I took my dog to fiesta Island for a couple of hours. Caught 5 croaker throwing small grubs.

There isnt one single square inch in Mission bay or SD bay that someone hasn’t tried to kick me out of:

too close to the military
too close to my boat
too close to my company
too close to private property
too close to the nature reserve
can’t be in the shipping lanes
can’t be here, we’re doing some ...

Fished the afternoon outgoing tide from ~1pm-4pm.
Tried to film but forgot how after a month of no fishing
A school of bonito and corvina followed in the hooked fish but no other bites from them after i let it go
Landed
1 Bonito
1 short halibut
4 spotted bay bass

https://youtu.be/Q8vjyS2otrA?si ...

Thought we’d try the opposite tide swing from last trip, low to high. Unfortunately couldn’t find a steady bite in the usual spots. Decided to mix things up and yoyo a blade bait, different from the heavier leadheads and paddle tail plastics I usually fish deep. Started getting spotty bites in the ...

Was fishing in the south bay on Jan 1 and boated a spottie and landed him on my deck. Looked up and saw a sea gull headed our way. The hook was a little further down than normal, so set my pole down to grab some pliers. Well, it was no sea gull. An osprey swooped down and grabbed the spottie from ...

Slow day for me with only landing one spotty at Spanish landing. Haven’t fished the bay since I was a kid and it feels like learning all over again. From the shore with a big hammer in my old favorite Redrum 3” which I guess they stopped making it seems.

My daughter came back from Santa Barbara for the summer. We have been fishing together since before she could walk. She missed Father’s Day and asked if we could hit the bay as a late celebration.Duh!! We grabbed a skiff from
Seaforth and headed out. Started north of the bridge for a steady pick for ...

My wife was fixing some old photo albums.

Hammer head shark from Sd bay. About 30 years ago. There was a school of them, up to 6' long but we only had 8 lb test and only a little bait.

Dusted off the shrimp pumps and fished with a couple new friends Sunday.
It was their first time shore fishing Mission Bay, and we did pretty well through mid-day. We got six or seven YFCs, couple spotties, a small sandy and two round rays.
I stayed through the afternoon and got another croaker and ...

San Diego Bay Crazy Good Fishing! Halibut & Bass
https://youtu.be/QU4PZuHW1qs

Hey all I hope that the new year is treating you well so far. I headed out on the big bay for the first time this year with a few goals in mind.
1. Catch Fish
2. Use old gear
3. Catch fish on a new lure
4. Catch a fish ...

Plenty of sculpin next to the midway. Dropper loop rig with market shrimp on size 4 hooks works great. Lots of small ones, but definitely enough keepers to make it worth an afternoon. Don’t cast far—they’re right by your feet.

I had my third ever bay session Tuesday. Got there around 6:45am and fished until the windy stormy weather ran me off. Launched the canoe from J street marina and drifted toward the cays. Ended up with a mackerel, 5 spotties and a 21 or 22 inch corvina. I love the bay fishing, but it is a 6 hour ...

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 have been recording what I have learned over the years about fishing for Spotties and thought I would post it here. I learn something new all the time so anything that can be added is appreciated. Comments?

Spotted Bay Bass Fishing Tips:

1. These tips are mainly for lure fishing spotted bay bass ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Landed in my book! Congrats on the bone.

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 ...