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STORMY WEATHER CONDITIONS HINDER THE SALTWATER FISHING EFFORT AT THE START OF 2023

By Bob Vanian of 976Bite.com

•The 2023 fishing season is upon us but those that wanted to get out on the water and do some fishing on New Year’s Day had to put those plans on hold as there was a storm passing through

Southern California that brought

Gale Warnings and a combination of strong winds, high seas and rain.

The New Year’s Day storm and its

Gale Warnings have now passed but the weather is still unsettled with the 10 day forecast calling for several more days of unsettled weather. Anglers and Skippers should keep a close eye on the marine weather forecast so they can plan their days of fishing for days of good weather.

•Prior to the New Year’s Day storm there were still bluefin tuna biting out at the Tanner Bank. The bluefin bite was not at the near limit to limit levels of the prior week but there were still some pretty good numbers of bluefin biting to go with good number of assorted bottom fish species. Two recent sportboat trips that found biting start with Tribute out of Seaforth

Sportfishing that had a 1.5 day trip with 29 anglers catch 10 bluefin tuna, 115 rockfish, 50 whitefish, 13 sheephead and 4 lingcod. The other trip was out of 22nd Street Landing that had Amigo fishing an overnight trip with 15 anglers catch 14 bluefin tuna, 142 whitefish and 136 rockfish.

•Most of the bluefin around the

Tanner Bank have been in the 18 to 40 pound range with some bigger fish to 65 pounds also in the mix. The best bluefin fishing has been in the dark and during the early morning hours and lot of the bluefin fishing is being done while anchored. A good bluefin zone has been anchored to the north and the northeast of the Tanner Bank high spot. Best baits and jigs for the bluefin have been live squid, sardines, knife jigs and Flat Fall jigs.

Squid has been able to be jigged for bait at night at the Tanner Bank but it is usually a good idea to get squid for your bait tank wherever you might find it be it from a mainland bait receiver of from a squid boat at Catalina or elsewhere. It will be interesting to see what will happen with the Tanner Bank bluefin fishing after the passing of the New Year’s Day storm and its gale force winds.

•There has not been much to report in the way of bluefin activity from other local offshore areas with recent weeks seeing occasional bluefin activity found in the region of the 178 Spot, 9 Mile Bank, Kidney

Bank and at some of the offshore banks outside of Ensenada. Not much if anything has been caught from these areas in some time.

There are reports of some larger bluefin to 240-plus pounds being caught further down the Mexican coast in an area that I understand to be between 150 and 180 miles from Point Loma.

•The other offshore fishing that had been producing occasional action before the recent bad weather was deep drop fishing for swordfish. The swordfish bite has been slowing overall but there have still been a few people giving it a try that were seeing some good signs on the fathometer and getting a very occasional bite. It has been over 2 weeks since I have heard news of a hookup but I am thinking that some people will want to go out and try to catch the first swordfish of 2023 once the weather calms down. The areas that have been showing signs of possibly holding swordfish have been the 9 Mile Bank, the 178 Spot, the Radar Dome at San Clemente Island, the 152 Spot off the East End of Catalina, the Avalon Bank and the area 3.5 to 8 miles off Newport Beach.

Full story will be found online. Bob Vanian is the voice, writer, and researcher of the San Diego-based 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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