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Yahoo!!!!! I spent an hour casting at a school of about 6 until I finally tricked one to eat my fly. It's such a great feeling, especially when you lose track of the fly, when you feel the tug and see those big white lips open up.

Afterwards, some corbina showed up, and I had the first-world ...

One of the friendly surfers said he saw a good school of chunky spotfin croaker. North Torreypines /Del Mar Border. Some big kelp stringers were coming in, but otherwise fair on the weeds.


I've been seeing schools of them and corbina at Blacks these past 2 weeks. They were feeding hard today ...

Yahoo!!!!! I spent an hour casting at a school of about 6 until I finally tricked one to eat my fly. It's such a great feeling, especially when you lose track of the fly, when you feel the tug and see those big white lips open up.

Afterwards, some corbina showed up, and I had the first-world ...

Fished peak high tide as it receded this morning, line in the water at 6:15 and stayed until about 8:45. Not a terribly high tide but I forgot to check wave/swell conditions and was susprised to see almost no waves at all when showed up!

Fairly strong northerly current all morning and the winds ...

Sounds like a pretty good morning… You guys get any rain down there?… It rained pretty good for an hour or two mid morning…
Butch


Not when I was there. We got a small burst of rain early afternoon and it looks like a little more might be on the way, but nothing close to what was forecasted ...

Pescando el rio después de el huracán Hilary (Pesca con mosca)fly fishing (pesca de lobina)

If you like stripping streamers in shallow water, now's the time up here! I've picked up 42 fish in 2 days, ranging from 12" to 23". I'm fishing the flats in the back of Lake Mary, mostly stripping black leaches with a flashback hares ear trailer. 11 of the fish were between 20"-23" and caught in 2 ...

A little local color...

I have a history with Mammoth bears! Last year he swam out to play with me at Lake Mamie. Bruno is the big boy!

This morning 6:30 am..my new friend wanted a ride to the lake...! Yep, I'm a bear magnet!

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 ...

The past two weekends I've been going out with Tubefly . I've been exclusively sight fishing for Carp, but Bill doesn't have the patience and vicinity-fishes with an indicator. I got four carp last week and six yesterday, and lost a whole bunch more. But more importantly, I had the most shots on ...

Looks like a lot of work to get there.

Didn't see any poison oak but it's winter time too. I have been along a few streams (while hiking or biking) that are supposed to have wild trout and they have lots of poison oak.


I rolled in poison oak as a kid and ever sense haven't been too bothered ...

Might as well get a paddleboard report in here even if its not from San Diego!

Ive spent the last few weeks targeting backwater tarpon and its been a blast and a pain in the butt. I started fishing small baits and flukes and the bites were slow to come, i switched to the No Live Bait Needed mini ...

A circle hook with a split ring attaching it to the eye of the jighead? Interesting, that tarpon fishing is still a bucket list for me (as for most other anglers) but it seems so frustrating to expect to lose so many fish that even hooking one "counts" more than hooking and losing just about any ...

Rockfish season closes soon, at least for depths less than 300 ft.
Went out for a try and got a few rockfish. Only one to keep.
A few sand dabs, and a not quite legal sand bass.

Not a great shot of the rockfish, but it was something to bring home.

Surf was low which I prefer - still not used to ...

Hi everyone

Used to be active on the old site. Mainly fished from kayaks and from shore. Been a few years since I've had a kayak, but recently got a Glide Angler iSup to hit the bays.

It's been a lot of fun and have been getting on some quality fish, like this keeper Halibut from Liberty Station ...

Fished Coronado early Friday morning....11 SBB and a micro halibut.
Anchored up in a shallowish spot and tried my hand at working plastics on the bottom....with a foot-and-a-half chop when the wind picked up.

Didn't work. What's weird is that I get seasick like a woodchipper when I get on a boat ...

Waders with zippers are typically $400 and up. I saw this for <$200 and got it: https://www.basspro.com/p/white-river-fly-shop-prestige-front-zip-stocking-foot-chest-waders-for-men?hvarAID=shopping_googleproductextensions&ds_e=GOOGLE&ds_c=BPS%7CShopping%7CPMax%7CProprietary%7CGeneral%7CNCO%7CGoogle ...

I love my zippered waders! Absolute game changers. I found Paramount Outdoors over a year ago and the Deep Eddy Zippered Waders that I got from them are the best I have ever owned. After purchasing them I reached out to them telling them how much I loved them and let them know I make YouTube Videos ...