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Went back out - hiked the east side up to the creek - water is way up - banks are 100 yards form where they should be - anyway, saw a few carp - the bass were eager, so still no carp for me - Henshaw has been the best so far for me in amount of carp seen

Lots of carp out early - it was like a parade - they stuck to the middle of the arm moving to the left or to the right - mouths out of the water as they passed by -
Ended up with 2 channnel cats - I put one on the reel - nice fish

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.

Get out there for carp now! There are literally hundred everywhere. I caught 2 by accident while bass fishing and had to leave one area because there were just too many around to fish. Bowhunters get out there now!! They are all over the shoreline.

I will kick of this forum with the 1st post. I had been fishing South San Diego Bay for the last few month, had the quantity but not the quality of spotties. Got 29 spotties, 1 mackerel, 1 corvina and 1 halibut (18") float tubing yesterday. The spotties were nice sized for a change, several in the ...

9 and 7 pounders. shore fishing south bay. 1/2 bass jig. 8lb test. unibutter.

Great to see the site back up again, and that good triumphed over evil in this case (last dig I promise)! I hadn’t been posting much in the months leading up to the original forum’s untimely demise, but thought I’d post a quick report. Cold water has made the corvina fishing tough but some are still ...

Hit the south bay yesterday. Only a 2.9 foot tidal swing, but the fish bit ok. I got 25 spotties. Quality was good with a number of almost 14 inchers. Caught most of the fish in 5-8 feet of water on 1/4 oz jigs with shad tail plastics. Got a couple of corvina and one halibut in the mix also.

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Headed up to Carlsbad area to have a look around lagoons at low tide during the last grunion run.

Not much luck on the halibut, a few mixed bag little critters on various fave plastics and the opaleye ate a MORF perch grub bounced on the bottom. Some aggressive little fish in the lagoon ...

First time posting here. Fished Spanish Landing Monday and Wednesday nights. Big school of corvina on Monday, a lot of spotties and one barred sand bass on Wednesday. Fast action from about 8 to 10:15 pm. Success came on kalins solid black 5 inch lunker grubs on 3/8th oz Walmart lead heads for both ...

Got in some more corvina fishing recently. More quantity over quality compared to before but still some pretty fun fishing. All caught on rapala shadow rap or spook. I’ve really been liking the shadow raps lately. They seem to have better action than LCs even though they don’t cast as far (also ...

Fished Tidelands this morning from the float tube. Got 31 spotted bay bass, 1 20" halibut and 1 sand bass. At least 1/3 of the spotties were in the 13-15" range. Best lures were a Missile Shockwave swimbait on a weedless standup jig head, a 5" grub on a 3/8 oz. ball head and a 4" grub on a 1/4 oz ...

Still back in the bay but this is the time of year they really get moving up in the bay. Americas cup harbor in summer is the easiest place to get them during the summer. While getting on sport boats you always see groms fishing for them off the docks.

Day 1- Hiked into Ramona at sunrise. After about 45 minutes my dog got a foxtail burr in her ear, so we hiked back out and went to the animal hospital. No fish for you.
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Day 2- South bay shallows mud flats hoping for exotics.Very windy, very poor fishing ...

Got a hall pass to go fishing and decided I needed to hit the big bay. Launched from shelter at 930 am and went straight across to north island. Fished several depths and found a few fish in about 15-20 feet. I threw mostly swim baits with the occasional drop shot. I made a move to tidelands and ...

There are very few options for using an SUP on lakes in San Diego. SUPs are allowed at Lake Hodges and San Vicente. San V has haul-ass SKI BOATS everywhere, wake-boat big wakes, not to mention the bass boaters on our lakes that like to drive 70 mph everywhere. It can be very scary even in a kayak ...

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

Fished H.I. this morning, mostly in the deeper channels. Spotties were a no-show, but between my friend and I we caught 3 sculpin, 1 hali, 1 sand bass (small), 5 mackerel. This was our first outing where not a single spottie was in the mix.

Had a great morning in Mission Bay today. Caught and released 11 nice spotties.

Three inch paddletails on keel-weighted hooks slowly pulled through the grass on the bottom was the ticket today. I was fishing an ultralight rig with 4 pound test, and had to make sure my drag was set well because all ...

Hello SDFISH,
Caught this bad boy in the south bay. I was lucky ran into them that day. First hooked up bend my hook, second one landed it. Measured at 25" and 4.36 Lbs. I have see them in the past but they are not interested in my lures.