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Hard to believe that today was my first time out this year. After going my whole life with excellent health, things have gone from bad to since I turned eighty. I really wanted to get out, actually I needed to get out. I got my boat out of mothballs and found that my trolling motor wasn't working. I ...

Went back for 2nds.

This time I got Dave out of his nice cushy crappie machine and into a good old fashion flat bottom rental. Fished moved on me but it only took a hour or so to re-locate them. Live scope not needed. Then we proceeded with the beat down.

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Hammered them until ...

Started the day in cold and windy conditions. The water level is way down. One of the tree lines I like to fish is up on the beach. Moved to a different area and found a few willing to eat. Ended up with 6 Coppernose and 1 Hybrid.

Got this guy as bycatch during a recent trip with a crank bait. 7lbs on the boga probably the biggest I'll ever catch. Thought it would be cool to share.

Have fished successfully at Santee Lakes for bluegill and bass lately. The hotter the better. I'm fishing my UL trout rod, usually no weight or float and getting some on the micro-popper too. If you have kids this is an easy place for catching fish, 4# or 6# fluoro line and small #10 mosquito hooks ...

They are in there and I tend to try for them with very light tackle (my sierra trout setup). If you can get away from the turtles you may find some nice ones.

Turn them on their back and carefully use a pliers, it is often quite a battle with them biting the pliers. If they swallow it, I just cut the line. Last week I caught one with 3 hooks in it and was able to remove all of them (one was mine...)

Really solid Halibut fishing in the bay the last couple of weeks from skiffs, kayak, and shore. Using sardines, smelt, and double rig with underspin and white gulp swimbaits.

Been fishing fiesta island on the way home from work the past month for the magic hour around sunset and and catching a few bass on lucky crafts every outing while trying to dodge the weeds, and while not many, I get 3-4 every night with most of them are nice ones in the 12-15 range(the top one was ...

Been a while since I checked the new site. Here's a couple small ones from this past weekend.

I was fishing South shores. In the morning between 6:30 and 11:30, caught a lot of bass. Over 15 at least lost count. I used z man TRD bugz Texas rigged. And a trolled chartreuse, white spinnerbait.

Fish Mission Bay Father's Day caught two croaker and a bunch of bass nothing too big to brag about.

Same as always, live smelt & lures at Harbor Island.

Saturday:
6 short halibut
20+ spotties (I lost count)
1 queenfish
1 shovelnose guitarfish
2 butterfly rays
1 thornback ray
1 sculpin

Sunday:
3 short halibut
~10-15 spotties
New pb guitarfish at 50 inches
A few butterfly rays
1 corvina ...

My facial expression was so bad so I had to hide it, lmao! Here's pics from Sunday's session.

Dave and I hit the Bay yesterday from 6am - 11:30am. Fishing in the slack and some of the incoming tide.

I get out here about 3 or 4 times a year. The only goal was to catch as many species as we could.

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The bite was pretty steady all morning long. Lost count of the ...

The original post was written by DJ Thrillz . Unfortunately it was lost along with the old SDFish forums.
This is an amazing article that will help you catch fish in SD bay, so I figured it has to be re-posted here.

The fishing in SD Bay is simply amazing. You basically have a buffet of fish to ...

awesome man....I appreciate that...you got anything for mission bay? Taking out some kids in 2 weeks there when they camp at campland


Check out this article
https://surffishingsocalsd.com/bay-fishing-the-ins-and-outs-to-fishing-mission-bay

It was also written by DJ Thrillz and it has tons of ...

I decided I wanted to get into fishing to have something to do with my kids. Went out alone for the first time just to test the waters. Thanks to the tips on the site, I got 3 spotties in 3 hours and quit when something strong snapped my leader.

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 ...