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northwest of North Island. A good depth range for the bottom fish fishing has been 20 to 50 fathoms.
Fishing along San Diego County’s coast has been good for a mix of calico bass, sand bass, reds, rockfish, sculpin, whitefish, and an occasional lingcod. The coastal yellowtail fishing and the halibut fishing have been slow.
The water along the coast has been warming up into the middle 60’s which has helped to improve calico bass activity in kelp bed areas. A couple of kelp bed areas that have had improving numbers of calico bass biting have been the kelp at the Green Tank at Point Loma and the kelp at the upper end of La Jolla. There has also been some improved calico bass activity reported around the structure of the artificial reefs outside of Oceanside Harbor. La Jolla has been the best area to try and locate yellowtail along San Diego’s coast but the yellowtail activity has yet to rebound after the showings of yellows slowed down after a drop in the water temperature that occurred a few weeks ago. The water temperature has warmed back up into the middle 60’s so anglers have reason to hope that consistent showings of yellowtail will begin sometime soon.
Areas where yellowtail tend to show in the La Jolla region are off Pacific Beach, off the upper end of La Jolla, and off Torrey Pines. A good depth to look has been 18 to 30 fathoms. Best bet once yellowtail are located has been to try surface iron or yo-yo iron. Good choices for yo-yo iron include Salas 6X Jr. and Salas 6X jigs in the blue and white color combination. Good choices for surface iron include Tady 45’s and Salas 7X lights in sardine colors, the blue and white color combination and mint.
The best areas for rockfish fishing along the coast as listed from the south to the north have been the International Reef, the hard bottom to the west of the Whistler Buoy at Point Loma, the Dropoff at Point Loma, the Point Loma Pipeline, the Green Tank, Point Loma College, The 270 to the west of Mission Bay, the upper end of La Jolla, Torrey Pines, Del Mar, Leucadia, South Carlsbad, and Box Canyon.
Halibut fishing continues to be slow with an occasional halibut being reported. In recent weeks there have been halibut caught in areas including Imperial Beach, San Diego Bay, the sandy bottom next to the structure of the Yukon Shipwreck off Mission Beach, 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.
Private boater Tom Golding of Last Buck reported doing a fun shakedown trip to Catalina before venturing out on an offshore tuna adventure. Golding got to Catalina around noon with some lively sardines that he got from the San Pedro Bait Company bait receiver. They anchored up at a calico bass spot in the Salta Verde region and started catching and releasing short and legal sized calico bass and short sized barracuda. Out of nowhere Golding said he got bit by a much larger fish that broke him off on the 20 pound test spinning outfit he was using for the calicos. Golding’s boat partner Steve Kunitake also got bit by a larger fish that was also lost. Golding decided to convert his 60 pound test jig rod outfit to fish live bait with a 60 pound fluorocarbon leader. He put out a sardine on that jig casting outfit and it did not take long to get bit and the end result was boating a 43-pound white seabass.
Golding said they fished from 12 to 3 p.m. and caught the 43-pound white seabass and also caught and released lots of calico bass and four short sized barracuda. The Last Buck ran great on it’s first of the season shakedown trip and what started out as a leisurely trip to run the boat and have some fun with catching and releasing calico bass resulted in Golding catching his personal best ever white seabass of 43 pounds. Congratulations Tom!
most people expected but the very good news is that the bluefin tuna bite has held up strong during the windy weather and has seen increased numbers of larger sized bluefin up to 265 pounds in the mix. I hope the windy weather backs off sometime soon and that you get a chance to get out on the water and enjoy the spring time fun. Keep on fishing and I hope to see you out on the water! 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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