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Islands has been producing a few yellowtail along with a mix of bass, bonito, and good numbers of a mixed bag of bottom fish that include reds, whitefish, rockfish, and a few lingcod. The most recent sportboat trip to Los Coronado Islands was on San Diego out of Seaforth Sportfishing that was out on a full day trip with 12 anglers who caught five yellowtail, 60 whitefish, two lingcod and two sheepshead. Seaforth Sportfishing reports that the yellowtail caught aboard San Diego were nice sized fish that ranged from 22 to 28 pounds.
Best areas for a chance at a yellowtail at Los Coronado Islands have been along the weather side of North Island, the Middle Grounds, and the South Kelp Ridge. Locate yellowtail by finding meter marks, sonar marks, spots of breaking fish, trolling strikes on slow trolled sardines, and trolling strikes on Rapalas. Once located, try flylined sardines, dropper loop fished sardines, slow trolled sardines, surface iron, and yo-yo iron.
Best spots for calico bass have been at kelp bed and hard bottom areas around South Island. Best spot for a chance at finding bonito has been along the weather side of North Island. The best zone for the bottom fishing for a mix of reds, salmon grouper, lingcod, and rockfish has been while working hard bottom areas to the north and northwest of North Island in the 30 to 50 fathom depths.
The fishing along the San Diego County coast has been good for a mixed bag of reds, rockfish, whitefish, sculpin, bonito, and bass. The fishing for yellowtail along the San Diego County coast has been mostly slow but there has been a bit more yellowtail activity in recent days for boats fishing off the upper end of La Jolla. A recent afternoon half-day trip fish count on New Seaforth out of Seaforth Sportfishing saw 27 anglers catch four yellowtail, 84 rockfish and five calico bass.
Surface iron, yo-yo iron, slow trolled sardines, slow trolled mackerel, flylined sardines, and flylined mackerel would all be good choices for yellowtail that are found on the surface. Try using yo-yoed iron, dropper loop rig, fished sardines, and dropper loop fished mackerel when fishing yellowtail meter marks.
Productive areas for the mixed bag coastal fishing for bass, sculpin, whitefish, reds, and rockfish have been hard bottom areas around the Whistler Buoy at Point Loma, the hard bottom to the northwest of Buoy #3 off Point Loma, hard bottom areas off the Green Tank at Point Loma, the Jetty Kelp outside of Mission Bay, the 270 located to the west of Mission Bay, the upper end of La Jolla, Del Mar, Solana Beach, Leucadia, and Box Canyon. There is not much new to report on the halibut fishing which remains mostly slow. There was a recent private boater report of catching a couple of legal sized halibut drifting the sandy bottom adjacent to the sunken NEL Tower and Yukon Shipwreck areas off Pacific Beach. Additional areas that have produced halibut in recent weeks have been Imperial Beach, outside of South Ponto Beach, the sandy bottom next to the Buccaneer Pipeline, and the sandy bottom next to the artificial reefs off Oceanside.
The fall offshore fishing season continues to produce some impressive catches of offshore species and this fishing might go on a while longer if northern and western storms do not come through and drop the water temperature. I hope you can get out on the water and enjoy some of the fun late season 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 Diego-based internet fish report service called 976Bite 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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