Otay 5/10-511

[CorsoEnthusiast]

By now, Otay has surpassed El Cap as my favorite SD body of water. Almost all of my best days over the last year have happened there and it just feels like home.

While neither day was a wide open bite, both were fun sessions at different ends of the day. Saturday I started out in a favorite spot before light and threw the big bait around to start the day. Too dark to see followers at that point, I spent the first hour looking for that bigger bite with no success. started fishing around trees (water in that spot has dropped and most of the tules are out of water now) with plastics and was fishing slow and started catching them in bunches. Would catch a couple off a group of trees, move to the next group and do the same. by about 8am I had 8, spent the next few hours focused on the big bait. Not much love from followers on that end Saturday. Water was substantially warmer than it was just the week prior.

On Sunday, I fished a different part of the lake and found success without leaving the first spot of the day. Arrived about 3PM to pretty comfortable temps, a bit of a breeze and some patchy clouds. Had fish swimming up to check me out in the tube the whole time I was out. Didn't seem to stop the bite as I was again able to find 8 fish on plastics and small paddletail swimbaits. This time had lots of following interest on the big bait, from dink size all the way up to 5 pound class (in my estimation anyway). Just couldn't get anything to commit. Several of my catches were spitting up tiny shad.

The heat definitely slowed the bite down a bit, but didn't kill it. The plastics bite is pretty healthy right now. Saw only a few busters on Saturday and none on Sunday. 16 fish over about 8 hours of fishing isn't such a bad result.

[EL_prowler_619]

Nice as always bro... haven't hit otay in a couple years need to visit my favorite lake again barrett has me spoiled so its been hard to go to other lakes

[KillinTime]

1 fish every 30 minutes... I take it.
I too try for the big bites, but soon go back to looking for just the bites.
Thank for the report!

[Dannicus]

It's my favorite too. Have you launched from North Point recently? What's it like? My old knees won't navigate the darned hill at Otay arm so mostly I'm limited to the boat launch or North Point. I'mma gonna be there Sunday.

[CorsoEnthusiast]

It's my favorite too. Have you launched from North Point recently? What's it like? My old knees won't navigate the darned hill at Otay arm so mostly I'm limited to the boat launch or North Point. I'mma gonna be there Sunday.

I haven’t launched at North Point in awhile. Would be interested to see how it looks with the water down a little