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been Salas 6X Jr. and Salas 6X jigs in the blue and white color combination. Good choices for surface iron have been Tady 45’s and Salas 7X lights in the blue and white color combination and in sardine colors.
Most of the fishing along the San Diego County coast during the cold water months of the annual two-month rockfish/groundfish closure is focused on calico bass, sand bass, and sculpin by fishing hard bottom and structure spots. The Imperial Beach Pipeline and the hard bottom to the northwest of Buoy #3 off Point Loma continue to be a couple of the best areas in the San Diego region for mixed bag fishing. Other productive hard bottom and structure spots that have been producing a mixed bag of fish are the Lighthouse Ridge off the Point Loma Lighthouse, the Jetty Kelp hard bottom outside of Mission Bay, the Variety Kelp hard bottom off Pacific Beach, the Anderson and Buccaneer Pipelines, the artificial reefs outside of Oceanside Harbor and Box Canyon.
The halibut fishing has been scratchy overall but there was a recent catch of 3 halibut made off Imperial Beach aboard Dolphin out of Fisherman’s Landing. They had 27 anglers on an extended half-day trip who caught 3 halibut, 10 sand bass, 14 sculpin, 8 halibut, and 6 sand bass that were released. On another trip the week before Dolphin also posted a fish count that included 3 halibut.
Areas you might want to try to catch a halibut, are the sandy bottom around the Imperial Beach Pipeline, the area outside of the Imperial Beach Pier, the sandy bottom next to the structure of the Yukon Shipwreck, the sandy bottom next to the sunken NEL Tower off Mission Beach, South Ponto Beach, the sandy bottom next to the Buccaneer Pipeline and the sandy bottom next to the artificial reefs off Oceanside.
An ongoing reminder is that anglers need to keep in mind that the annual two-month rockfish/groundfish closure went into effect in U.S. waters on Jan. 1. The closure will run through Feb. 28 and during the two-month closure period, anglers need to travel into Mexican waters if they want to fish for the various rockfish/groundfish species that are covered by the closure. During the closure period anglers fishing in U.S. waters target species that are not covered by the closure such as calico bass, sand bass, sculpin, halibut, yellowtail, and white seabass.
The good weather days have been providing the best fishing and wise anglers will watch the marine weather forecast closely and pick the good weather days to go out on the water and go fishing. Keep on fishing and I hope to see you out on the water sometime soon! Bob Vanian is the voice, writer, and researcher of the San Diegobased internet fish report service called 976-Bite which can be found at www.976bite.com. Vanian also provides anglers with a personal fish report service over the telephone at (619) 226-8218. He always welcomes your fish reports at that same phone number or at bob976bite@aol.com.
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