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OCTOBER OFFSHORE FISHING REMAINS HOT!

By Bob Vanian of 976Bite.com

•We are well into the month of

October and Southern California anglers have a lot to be thankful for as the offshore fishing remains strong for species that include bluefin tuna to 200-plus pounds, yellowfin tuna, dorado, striped marlin, skipjack and yellowtail.

Anglers have been able to target varied species by working areas that are spread out over a large expanse of ocean ranging from the waters above Catalina and San

Clemente Islands on down to the offshore waters off Punta Colnett. • As has been the case, bluefin tuna are the main attraction and bluefin up over 200 pounds have been biting in an area ranging from the back side of San Clemente Island on up to the waters to the southwest of the West End of Catalina.

Specific productive areas within that zone have been 3 to 5 miles southwest of the West End of

Catalina, 2 to 4 miles outside of the

Catalina Canyon, the 499 Spot, 3 to 8 miles northwest of the West

End of San Clemente Island and outside of San Clemente Island to the southwest of the West End and outside of both West Cove and Seal Cove. A nice addition

to the bluefin fishing in some of these areas is that there has been a chance at finding 20 to 60 pound yellowfin tuna that have been holding around porpoise. • Bluefin have been biting both day and night. Most of the bluefin are being located by finding meter marks, sonar marks and blind trolling strikes. There has not been much showing in the way of spots of foaming or breaking fish. During the night the best bet has been using knife jigs or sinker rigged sardines. During daylight hours, the best bets have been flylined and sinker rigged sardines, knife jigs, trolled Nomad Madmac jigs and kite fished flying fish. For private boaters, the trolled Nomad

Madmac jigs are often the best bet during the daylight hours and they work best when trolled at 12 to 14 knots. • Private boater Tom Golding of

Last Buck reported catching 2 nice sized bluefin by working the region to the west-southwest of the West

End of San Clemente Island and off

West Cove. Golding started out the morning with a bang in catching a 144 pound bluefin that he personally caught on a Nomad pink and

glow color knife jig. The fish was hooked from a meter mark found at 6:42 AM in 66.12 degree water. • Golding reported that their second bluefin of the day was a 60 pound fish that was caught by his boat partner Steve Kunitake using 40 pound test and a sardine. The bluefin bit while baiting a kelp paddy in 66.14 degree water. • Golding said that they spent a good part of the day trolling

Madmac jigs with no luck on the troll and ended up heading for home at around 2:00 PM. On the way home they found a productive dorado kelp paddy off the East End of Catalina and caught their two largest dorado of the season which were 25 pound bulls. The dorado bite was from a kelp paddy found a few miles to the southwest of the 277 Spot. • Dorado fishing in U.S. waters remains good with productive kelp paddy areas being the 277

Spot, the 209 Spot, the 312 Spot, the 178 Spot and 8 to 15 miles off the stretch of coast between San

Onofre and Oceanside. There has also been an occasional bonus 30 to 40 pound bluefin tuna or yellowfin tuna caught incidental to fishing for dorado in the area 8 to 15 miles off the coast between San

Onofre and Oceanside. Finding the

“right” kelp paddy can lead to a wide open dorado bite and more. • Private boater Robert Serdoz of

Lucky Charm fished a solo trip out of Oceanside and found a kelp paddy about 11 miles off Oceanside that went completely wide open on dorado. Serdoz said he caught and also caught and released dorado until he used up his last bait in the bait tank. Serdoz wound up catching his U.S. limits of 10 dorado and also caught and released an additional 10 dorado. and Seal Cove. A nice addition

ally caught on a Nomad pink and 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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