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outside of Los Coronado Islands while fishing by the 371 Bank. Another recent report came from private boater Jeff Meeker of Doghouse who was fishing below Los Coronado Islands in the area above the 101 Spot when he had a jumper marlin come up and put on an acrobatic aerial circus show. It sounded like a spectacular jumper marlin show with the fish jumping at least 10 times in doing a circle around the boat. Meeker baited the area and did some trolling tacks with the jigs but could not get anything to bite.
There have not been many boats fishing Los Coronado Islands lately but a recent trip on Grande out of H&M Landing fished a full day trip to Los Coronado Islands with 25 anglers who caught 1 yellowtail, 2 bonito, and 147 rockfish.
The best areas around Los Coronado Islands for surface fishing have been the weather side of North Island, the Middle Grounds, the lighthouse at the south tip of South Island, and the South Kelp below South Island. To help locate yellowtail or bonito, look for meter marks, sonar marks, trolling strikes on Rapalas, or trolling strikes on slow trolled sardines. It can also be worthwhile looking around for kelp paddies and spots of breaking bluefin out to as far as the 100fathom curve outside of the Islands. The best calico bass fishing has been found around South Island at places such as the South Kelp, the lighthouse at the south tip of South Island, the Ribbon Kelp and the north end of South Island. A couple of productive areas for reds and rockfish have been at hard bottom areas to the north and northwest of North Island in 35 to 50 fathoms and at hard bottom spots in the region of the Rockpile.
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 the best chance at scratching out a yellowtail has been at the upper end of La Jolla. The kelp beds at the upper end of La Jolla have also been one of the best spots for trying to get a calico bass bite going.
Boats fishing out of San Diego Bay have been seeing improved bass fishing and have been finding good mixed bag fishing for calico bass, sand bass, sculpin, and rockfish at hard bottom areas to the northwest of Buoy #3 off Point Loma.
Productive spots for the reds and rockfish for boats fishing along the San Diego County coast 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. Halibut fishing has been spotty but if you want to give it a try, places, where occasional legal-sized halibut have been reported to have been caught 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 it is yet to be seen what the effect will be of the early season weather systems that have been passing through Southern California. Time will tell what will happen during the upcoming weeks. Old Man Winter will eventually win, but the great thing is that for the time being, there is still good fishing to report! I hope you can get out on the water and enjoy the 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. Solution from CROSSWORD, PAGE 18
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