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I have one and have used it before. It’s mainly laziness why I don’t use it more often. Maybe it’s time to dedicate a day to testing my hunch.


I find managing the drift to be very important - if you can't keep your offering in the zone you will get fewer grabs.

An electric motor with "Spot ...

Best technique for spotties is usually to cast a soft plastic on a jig head out, let sit, reel 1/2 to 1 turn while feeling the line, pause and repeat. Many people fish soft plastics too fast. Either curly tail or paddle tail baits work.


And watching the line on the pause too. I catch a lot of ...

Last time I looked there in person there was a fence separating the grass from the mud beach. Boats and barges almost completely blocked the space between Pier 18 and Pier 19 (the Cesar Chavez public pier - no fishing allowed). Even if you could access the water the work going on would have made ...

Finished the 2023 calendar year out on SD Bay this morning. Light breeze and occasional mist. Fished from 0700 to 1020. Quit early due to recent back injury. Both of us had fish on with our first casts. Pretty steady bite until it slowed down where we were about 0940. Red/Yellow clouser minnows and ...

Articles would be nice. Provided by authors at no cost. Not sure if that would increase the cost of maintaining the site, which may necessitate advertisements though.

Looking through the member list a large percentage of users posted 0, 1, or 2 times.

Nice ties there.

The Borksi Slider (also called a bonefish slider or redfish slider) is a really good pattern for a lot of local species. Tied with a weed guard and snaked through kelp it can be very effective for Calico bass. A lot of folks think they are difficult to tie because of the spun deer ...

Got mine about a year ago.

Nice gentleman at our local boat ramp handed me the pamphlet which contained the test. I took it, sent the $10, and had my temp card in 10 days and my permanent card in about a month.

I'm now seeing companies charging quite a bit for 'classes', for something that is ...

I'm thinking about doing with Wordpress which should be fairly easy to implement. As far as writing articles and editing submissions that could be time consuming and may only be done with community effort.


Ideally all site admin would have to do is format submissions as needed to fit the page ...

This is what I came up with https://blog.sdfish.org
I'll need to make some minor changes and add blog links to the forum but other than that it's ready to go.



That looks like a simple and easy format for anyone to use. I like it.

I see a checkbox for accepting "Terms and Conditions" but don't ...

I just put this clip together guys. These are my personal favorite areas for freshwater fishing in Ca I have personally visited. I fish Bass probably 90 percent of the time but enjoy all types of fishing. I based this list on this......Cost? Lodging availability? Things to see and do? Great ...

We fished south bay today - south of National City. I was actually surprised that there was less stuff floating around than I expected. Trash and debris that is. We ran into lots of floating eel grass as well a patches of other organic material.

Various types of plastic bag appear year round and as ...

It's always fun catching fish on flies you've tied yourself. I'm continually amazed that fish sometimes fall for my god-awful creations. I'm currently experimenting with spoon flies (purists, avert your eyes) thinking their oddball movement might attract some attention. I'm also focusing on small ...

I have a very well-worn Clouser that looks similar to your top fly with the barbed hook. It lost so much bucktail I thought about throwing it out but the darn thing keeps catching fish, even better than when the fly was new and had a fuller profile!

What are some of the advantages/disadvantages ...

Have you ever tied a fly using your own hair? Serious question. I would imagine an enthusiast would have to try it just to see.


I typically keep my hair cut too short to be of use. Human hair tends to be a bit brittle too compared to animal hair and fur. I know a couple of tyers who have tried ...

Has anyone fished upper Otay in the recent past? I fished lower Otay a couple weeks f weeks ago and decided to hike up there afterward. I'd never been up there before. It looks like it should hold fish albeit not very accessible. Inquiring minds is all.



I haven't explored there in about 5 ...

We have been fishing once or twice almost every week since the new year from National City to the south. Fishing has generally been pretty good for a spotties along with a few barracuda, mackerel, corvina, halibut, smelt, and bonefish.

Some days have be great with 2 dozen+ fish each for a four hour ...

Hit the surf with the fly rod again in Coronado last weekend , got 5 perch including this tank! Used red surf flies like the crabby patty pattern which was super fun. The water seemed to have some smell too it from the natural Tijuana spring water but I had waders so I was good i hope.


Nice ...

Lower Otay
Murray
El Capitan
San Vicente
Sutherland
Morena
Jennings
Cuyamaca
Henshaw

Check the lakes' websites for current restrictions/requirements such as quagga mussel inspections as well as days open.

Here is a site with more of a negative bent.
https://missionbayforall.org/
It mentions a ban on motorized boating, but doesn't mention anything on fishing. How is the city going to acquire all that land? Eminent domain?


I believe all of the land is already city owned. Some is leased out by ...