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The yellowfin tuna have mostly been biting from blind trolling strikes and from trolling strikes or stopping on meter marks that have been found around porpoise. There have also been some good yellowfin bait stops found after getting a trolling strike or after stopping on a meter mark or a sonar mark. Look for areas of working birds or spots of breaking fish to locate bluefin and it has been kelp paddies that have been producing most of the dorado and yellowtail.
The past weekend saw two tournaments running and there were a good number of boats out looking for marlin. What was found was that the good marlin bite up around Santa Barbara Island that had been going on the week before was no longer happening. When boats started looking to other areas what was found was that there were marlin biting at Catalina off of the stretch between the Farnsworth Bank and Ben Weston and that marlin were also biting in an area 4 to 7 miles off the coast between Mission Bay and La Jolla.
The area 4 to 7 miles off the coast between Mission Bay and La Jolla produced 2 marlin that were caught and released and both the marlin were located and caught by blind trolling strikes. The other productive marlin zone of the past weekend was off the back side of Catalina for boats fishing between the 100-fathom curve and the 150-fathom curve outside of the stretch between the Farnsworth Bank and Ben Weston. There were a few sleepers and feeders seen in this area with some strikes reported on trolled jigs and on trolled ballyhoo. My estimate was that 3 or 4 marlin were caught and released from this zone off Catalina on Saturday.
The surface fishing has improved at Los Coronado Islands with yellowtail, calico bass, bonito and bluefin tuna biting. Sea Watch out of Seaforth Sportfishing fished a recent full day trip around Los Coronado Islands and had 16 anglers catch 11 yellowtail, 9 bluefin tuna, 12 calico bass, 64 bonito, and 64 rockfish.
Bluefin tuna have been found in a few areas around Los Coronado Islands with the Lighthouse at the south tip of South Island and the South Kelp Ridge being good areas to take a look at. There have also been bluefin found outside of the stretch between North Island and the 27-fathom spot that is located below the Rockpile in 40 to 100 fathoms. Areas to take a look at for yellowtail have been the weather side of North Island, the Lighthouse at the south tip of South Island and the lee side of North Island. Look for bonito along the weather side of North Island, at the Middle Grounds, at the Lighthouse at the south tip of South Island, and at the Rockpile. Calico bass have been biting best around South Island at spots such as the Ribbon Kelp, the north end of South Island, and the back side of South Island. The fishing along the San Diego County coast has been good for a mixed bag of reds, rockfish, whitefish, sculpin and a few bass. The yellowtail fishing along the coast has been slow but there has been a chance at scratching out a yellowtail at the upper end of La Jolla. The kelp beds at the upper end of La Jolla have been best for trying to get a calico bass bite going. Water conditions along the coast have generally been improving so there is reason to think that the surface fishing along the coast could be improving sometime soon.
Productive areas for the reds and rockfish have been the region of the Whistler Buoy at Point Loma, the Green Tank at Point Loma, The 270 to the west of Mission Bay, the upper end of La Jolla, Del Mar, Solana Beach, Leucadia, and Box Canyon.
The halibut fishing along the San Diego County coast has been scratchy with one recent report about a couple of legal sized halibut being caught off Mission Beach. Places where occasional halibut have been reported in recent weeks have been Imperial Beach, the Yukon Shipwreck off Mission Beach, the sunken NEL Tower off Mission 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 fishing season can provide some of the best offshore fishing of the year and the early part of fall has seen a continuation of the great bluefin fishing of the summer and has also provided improved offshore fishing for yellowfin tuna, dorado and yellowtail. Do not make the mistake of putting away your fishing gear too early. I hope you can get out on the water and enjoy some great fall 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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