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Need something to scratch the itch while I'm at work. I found the Cast and Crank podcast on Spotify and really enjoyed their episodes focused on San Diego/Mission Bay, shore fishing, local companies, etc.

Yeah, it is. To me homemade means "of your own design". There's nothing proprietary about my chatterbaits, they're made with parts available online. Even my current jig heads are available online. My spinnerbaits and buzzbaits are still made on a custom mold and many of my trailers are of my own ...

I have been seeing pictures of guys catching big halibut but I'm not having any luck. I catch lots of short ones. Sometimes in the same spot, same tide, same gear, I'll get 6, and another day, zero bites.

Are the halibut generally in the bays right now, and not in the surf? I catch them in the surf ...

This is the bay fishing forum, so I hope I am not stepping out of line with my post, but I have found during summer months that surf fishing from the beach is quite productive. I get more action on the beach than I do in the bay, but I am mainly a surf fisher. From your post, it sounds like you ...

Got off to a late start at 10. Picked up some sardines from the bait barge and trolled until 3. Got 4 halibuts (1 keeper), 3 spotties, sea bass, and needle nose.

Went cruising around Mission Bay in my canoe this morning. Gaught 8 bass. Nice day down there light wind. There were some big bass hitting today.. This was my biggest 17 inches

Took a trip down Memory Lane with shrimp pump in hand. Historically, good bite on incoming tide and today followed the pattern. '

23 or so fish, seven species. Sand and Spotted Bass, round ray, dink halibut, a buttload of chunky yellowfin croaker, diamond turbot and a rock wrasse.

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This Sunday was rougher than the last. Spent a good bit of time working some new baits with little to no luck. 20 fish total a mixed bag of spotties and calicos. Few of the spotties being legal or just shy of it. Most were caught on the incoming tide in the morning. Bite shut down for me around 9 ...

:) I’ve been working my way up. I mostly fish 30 braid, with 15 pound Flourocarbon or Maxima Clear for Topwater. I was just sick of getting my ass kicked by the big fish I hook often enough to start fishing bigger. Now I land the big Halibut, the occasional Angel Shark, and White Seabass that range ...

The further south in San Diego Bay you are, the less the tidal current is and the less important the tide swing is. It also seems that the channel and channel edges are more sensitive to tide swings than the flats and the bonefish I have gotten have mostly been in the shallow flats in the south ...

Fish the South Bay flats, they don't seem as affected as much by tide swings. Hard to beat a jig head with a curly tail grub or a Ned rig, drag across the bottom. Small plastic and small hook (1/0 or smaller, even #4 is OK) is right for bonefish, they have small mouths. You might get corvina and ...

We mostly fished the kelp at high tide with plastics, loaded up on grumpys in the bay afterward too. Total we got some small calicos, 1 legal sandbass, couple grass rockfish, and the kicker sheep.

FB update on the Hubbs white sea bass hatchery releasees.....






Hubbs White Sea bass

For the c rig, I use a #6 mosquito and tie a snell knot. That’s for the gulp sand worm and sand crab.

For the c rig, I use a #6 mosquito and tie a snell knot. That’s for the gulp sand worm and sand crab.


To answer the question, I also use a #6 mosquito, but with a Palomar knot. Snelling would probably work as well or better.

Click away here or pack a lunch, I'ma chew this fine....

I carry ...

I also like Caivo Nanowire #10 hooks. The size is in between Owner Mosquito #6 and #8. Essentially an Owner Mosquito #7 at less than 1/2 the cost.

Fished mission beach, tower 17-18, for a couple hours this morning. Little to no grass or kelp. After a slow start the tide filled in some and some holes showed up. I walked around a hole jerking perch out, moderate action.

A passing fisherman claimed 2 19 inch spot fins on blood worms. Another ...

I was targeting corbina with translucent soft shells when this hungry guy showed up.

Not much of a report, but I manged to get out to Alamitos Bay Peninsula for the 1st fishing in over a month.. It was only going to be a short trip, 'cause I'm still trying to shake a bug I caught... I was using some ghost shrimp I bought at Big Fish in Seal Beach... 1st cast and the shrimp didn't ...

On Labor Day sunset, I caught a legal barracuda from the surf, 28 inches, on a t-rigged white fluke in the La Jolla area.

I caught a short one from the sand in June, but this was a big surprise.
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