SAN DIEGO–Today is June 8, 2020, and it is the first day that San Diego County based sportboats have been allowed to run excursions following the Covid-1 9 lockdown closure that pushed the area’s sportboat fleet to cease operations. From what I have spoken still further, things such as face embraces and social distancing will be necessary while fishing aboard the sportboats. The lands have been territory Covid-1 9 associated policies and requirements on their web sites. Some of the boats within each arriving might also have their own policies and requirements so it is best to check out what the platform of your option and the craft of your preference are asking before you book your trip.
Some great word is that I can say that things are certainly off and invited to participate in good fashion today as Seaforth Sportfishing had an early update from the full day trip aboard San Diego. They are out on their first trip-up since the lockdown started and they supplied a morning update of having 64 yellowtail aboard with a lot of fishing term left in the day.
The offshore net has been going most of the recent attention with good fishing for a mixture of bluefin tuna, yellowfin tuna and yellowtail along with a few dorado. Offshore banks located below and outside of Los Coronado Islands have been making the tuna act and good neighbourhoods have been while fishing around and about the 224 Spot, 302 Spot, 230 Spot, 425 Bank, 371 Bank and the Upper Hidden Bank.
The bluefin tuna have been running to 318 pounds with most in the 100 – to 180 -pound range. The yellowfin tuna have been going from 20 to 50 pounds and most of the kelp paddie yellowtail have been in the 10 – to 20 -pound class. There have also been a couple of dorado caught in recent daytimes and the dorado have been in the 5- to 7-pound range.
The Upper Hidden Bank has been one of the best bluefin areas and it plied excellent bluefin fishing for Floyd Spark of Tuna Kahuna who fished recent back to back excursions to the Upper Hidden Bank aboard a friend’s boat. Sparks reported that on the first journey they caught bluefin of 318 pounds, 185 pounds, 180 pounds and 100 pounds with the 318 -pound whopper bluefin being caught by Tobin Rippo.
Sparks said they exited right back to the Upper Hidden Bank the next day and caught another bluefin tuna that weighed 140 pounds. All their bluefin were caught on kite fished frozen flying fish in areas where they were getting meter markings and receiving smudges of puddling fish. For your general reference, the inside high spot at the Upper Hidden Bank is located at 39 miles 182 units from Point Loma.
Bluefin have been biting best on strayed kite fished frozen flying fish and have also been biting well on kite trolled Yummy Flyers. An occasional bluefin is also being caught on sardines that are floated by a kelp paddie or strayed over meter symbols. The yellowfin tuna have been biting from meter lines, kelp paddies, spots of wreaking birds, porpoise and an occasional blind trolling strike. Flylined sardines have been best enticement for the yellowfin. Rapalas tend to produce the occasional strike on the troll.
The offshore yellowtail have been biting around kelp paddies and there have been a good percentage of fish that ought to have up in the 15 to 20 pound wander. The 371 Bank has produced got a couple of early season dorado. One was caught by a diver with a spear handgun and the other bit on a flylined sardine.
Los Coronado Islands have not seen much angling influence because of the good tuna and yellowtail fishing in regional offshore liquids but there were some boats that fished around Los Coronado Islands over the past weekend and what was witnessed was that there was good mixed bag fishing for barracuda, calico bass, rockfish and yellowtail.
On the weekend there were barracuda biting at the Lighthouse area at the south tip of South Island and calico bass were chewing well at the Middle Grounds. The best locality for yellowtail was reported to be while fishing meter ratings noticed along the lee side of South Island.
Private boater Mike Seymour of Sea Section reported about fishing around Los Coronado Islands and meeting good mixed bag fishing for calico bass and yellowtail. Seymour started out his date fishing the Pukey Point and the Keyhole areas of North Island and met the fishing to be slow-going. His next move was to the Middle Grounds where he found very good calico bass net in 40 hoofs of water. The calico bass burn was good enough to where they were able to catch and liberate over 30 calico bass.
After catching and releasing a assortment of calicos, Seymour’s next move was to try fishing in the lee of South Island where they found some yellowtail rhythm tags and caught 4 yellowtail that straddled from 15 to 21 pounds. The yellowtail were piercing on flylined sardines and they too fastened one yellowtail on the bottom while straying for halibut. In addition to the 4 yellowtail they boated they had 4 added lost yellowtail hookups with two of those stolen fish being slip by closes. Seymour reported getting the yellowtail meter distinguishes while fishing inside of South Island in depths straying from 30 to 60 feet of irrigate. The water temperature in the area was at 65.6 degrees.
The fishing along the San Diego area coast continues to he highlighted by occasional jumbo-sized yellowtail with some of the yelloweds being caught going up over the 40 -pound mark. No big number of the yellowtail are get caught but a good deal of anglers have been willing to put in a lot of time in the hope of catching a 40 -pound class yellowtail.
Trolled Rapalas have been working best for the coastal yellowtail when trolled at 5.5 bows of rate and the trolled Rapalas have also raised a few 40 -pound class lily-white seabass. The yellows have been found in two areas with the Imperial Beach area grow most of the action while fishing a short way above the Mexico border and with specific actions also being experienced along the edges of the Point Loma Kelp Beds in an area spread from the Lab to Hill Street. A good penetration compas has been while net in 40 to 80 hoofs of water.
In addition to yellowtail and white seabass, there have been some barracuda biting from distinguishes of running tern fledglings being learnt off Imperial Beach and Point Loma. In addition to marking blots of barracuda, the working tern fledglings are often marking areas where one might get a trolling strike on a Rapala from one of the large yellowtail or white seabass. The barracuda have been biting best on flylined sardines and face iron.
Imperial Beach has been producing an occasional halibut for barges floating spots of sandy tush found outside of the Imperial Beach Pier in the 40 – to 80 -foot depths. Barges fishing outside of Mission Beach have also been catching an periodic halibut while drifting the sandy sole around the structure of the sunken NEL Tower and such structures of the Yukon shipwreck. Reports coming from La Jolla continue to be of fair to pretty good fishing for a mixture of calico bass and rockfish along with an occasional law sized barracuda.
The late outpouring fishing has been very good and with the summer season fast approaching one would have reason to think the fishing will continue to improve as the spray continues to warm with the changing of the seasons. It is great to have such immense fish to target be it offshore, at small island developing or along the coast. I hope and pray that you continue to stay health, safe and sound. Keep on fishing and satisfy be safe! I hope to see you out on the water sometime soon.
Bob Vanian is the voice, columnist and researcher of the San Diego-based internet fish report service called 976 -Bite which can be found at www. 976 bite.com. Vanian also provides anglers with a personal fish report service over the telephone at 619 -2 26 -8 218. He ever welcomes your fish reports at that same telephone number or at bob9 76 pierce @aol. com.
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