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Since i cant get away from halibut, i decided to target them. Grabbed the heavy irod and rigged up the double drop shot after work and it didnt disappoint.
Spotted Bay Bass: 2
Jack Smelt: 1
Halibut: 6
Sea Monster: 1 but never saw what it was, towed me in circles, guessing butterfly ray

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Wanted to do a tide ride along the Coronado side of the big bay on Monday. Storm won't be here 'til Tuesday, right?

So I tied up some stuff and was ready to go.

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Plan was to leave the truck near Crown Cove, portage to the Cays, and ride the tide down the bay, getting out ...

Got up to the bridge right before 11. Steady action on the trusty crankbait. Also got a nice corvina in front of Tidelands on the underspin. Definitely a good day by my standards. 19 spotties with only a few dinks, 1 short halibut on a lipless crankbait of all things, 1 corvina and even a needlefish ...

The format was changed this year from a weighing tournament to a measuring tournament. The Kayak Tournaments have been doing this successfully for years and we thought we would try it. The fish are measured on an approved measuring board, photos are snapped and then uploaded to a fishing ap that ...

On Wednesday the Dolphin Half Day Boat kept 121 Corvina from San Diego Bay. They have routinely been fishing the bay this spring and have been pushing farther and farther into the back bay. While totally legal it’s a pretty embarrassing look for the Dolphin considering rockfish season is open and ...

Half day boats are a plague. Their business model of needing to not only catch, but harvest as many fish as possible in order to support the deckhands' incomes with filet dollars may have done more to negatively impact California's coastal fisheries than any other type of recreational fishing. I've ...

Just got done with my first session at Pepper park. 2 spotties and a small halibut on curlytail grubs. Missed 3 bites, but thanks for the tips everyone. It really helped out.

Started at sunrise. Hit the mooring field while waiting for friends. I was throwing a skunk buster 3/8 oz tube and had 5 by the time they got on the water. Great day of fishing out there with the wind and swell. Ended the day with 20 spotties, 1 ugly ass guitar fish, 3 halibut (1 being legal that ...

Floated Tidelands Park this morning from 6:00-9:00 with a steady bite the whole time. Drop shot robo worms on a 6lb ultra light trout setup was all I ended up using. Handful of spotties, yellow fin croaker, a halibut and a chunky Sargo.

I usually fish soft plastics on a jig head and that is more effective on spotties than the drop shot in my experience. But I might try the drop shot with a Gulp bait next time to get the variety.


I’ve been trying out new techniques lately for the bay after almost exclusively using swimbaits on ...

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 ...

Spent the weekend on my gayak. Covering serious miles ither n' yon. Trying for halis and veens mostly. Not too much success there. Lost a big one this morning in some rich person's backyard.

Spotties bit constantly on cranks, chatters, and worms.

Heard a noise hit my kayak and then splash while ...

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 ...

Started throwing at grey light. Literally in the middle of nowhere. Threw a bass jig a couple times to check depth, 12-15'. Nice depth for the chatterbait, so I changed rods. 1st cast on the chatter. Boom! Gaffed her, stepped on her, stabbed her in the brain,threw in the ice box to die. 20 minutes ...

This lure was working so good on the sbb amd sfc that i quit using it because they kept swallowing it. True story

The only time I've seen mullet feeding was when they ate floating green weeds (not grass)....and nowhere near the bottom. I have never caught one on a lure (although one tore the skirt off my swimbait once).

Maybe a long wispy green ly?

I have caught a couple on bait in a creek....this one was ...

Hadn’t gotten the kids out in a while. First time for my youngest casting and hooking her own fish, pretty awesome. Mommy got a surprise slimer, that was cool. Also brought the trout rod to target smelt for something different, got a handful on the Roostertail. Fun times.

The answer to your problem is a flight to New Orleans and a rental car drive to Venice. There, the Mullet are voracious and eat anything thrown onto the water. Put them in a bucket and bring them back so we can have that here…

It's a Brown Rockfish, the brown spot on the top of the gill plate helps identify it.