SAN DIEGO–The cold water winter angling season has finally set in but that does not mean the fishing has been slow. The best overall net has been for boats traveling down the Mexican coast on 1.5 and 1.75 day trips to fish the liquids off Punta Colnett. The trawl off Punta Colnett has been making very good mixed bag bottom fishing for red-faceds, rockfish and lingcod and has also been catering a chance at observe some surface fishing enjoyable from yellowtail and bonito.
A recent fish 1.5 day trip aboard Pacific Queen out of Fisherman’s Landing to Punta Colnett had 33 anglers catch 141 rockfish, 114 red-faceds, 13 lingcod and 19 yellowtail. H& M Landing had Ocean Odyssey fishing a 1.75 day trip with 28 anglers catch 250 rockfish, 150 blood-reds, 18 bonito and 2 yellowtail.
Most of the yellowtail get caught off Punta Colnett ought to have aspect sized fish that exist in the 15 -to-2 5-pound class. Punta Colnett yellowtail often bite best from stopping on rhythm scores and sonar observes and fishing with yo-yo iron or with sardines that are fished on dropper loop-the-loop rigs.
In more neighbourhood offshore liquids, there has not been much recent bulletin on penetrating plummet fishing for swordfish but during the first week or so of the new time there was a bit of deep cease swordfish fishing activity reported by crafts fishing between the 178 Spot and Oceanside as well as at the Avalon Bank and the 152 Spot off the Eastern end of Catalina.
Recent reports coming from Los Coronado Islands are of very good fishing for ruby-reds and rockfish. The last reports of surface fishing activity from Los Coronado Islands were from a week ago when there were good number of small bonito piercing around North Island.
The reports about good rockfish fishing around Los Coronado Islands have been coming from areas such as the lower end of the 9 Mile Bank while fishing on the Mexico side of the border as well as from hard underside areas to the north and the northwest of North Island in the 35 to 50 penetrate extents. Another fertile rockfish area has been at hard-handed bottom regions below and outside of South Island in 25 to 40 fathoms.
A reminder to anglers is that the annual two-month rockfish/ groundfish close on the United State feature of the Mexico border went into effect on January 1, 2021. Those wishing to fish for the rockfish/ groundfish species covered by the closure will need to travel into Mexican waters.
With the annual rockfish/ groundfish shutdown in effect in Southern California liquids until March 1, skippers fishing along the San Diego County coast have been focusing their efforts on calico bass, beach bass, sculpin, halibut and yellowtail. There has been pretty good to good fishing for the calico bass, beach bass and sculpin reported and there has also been periodic yellowtail and halibut activity.
The yellowtail fish has been scratchy but there have been a few institutions of yellowtail around that rarely show in an area ranging from Sunset Cliffs on up to the upper end of La Jolla. The yellows tend to show best during the morning hours and locating areas of bait has been a good way to try and position yourself to be in the right spot at the appropriate time if and when the yellows decide to show.
Most of the yellowtail act has been determined while fishing in the 18 to 35 penetrate depths. Surface iron works best when cast to yellowtail that are found up on the surface and yo-yo iron is most effective when plummeting down to meter crisscross or sonar observes. Sardines and mackerel can also be effective while sluggish trolled, flylined or fished deep on a dropper loop rig.
Good options for face cast-iron include Salas 7X daylights and Tady 45 ’s in blue and grey, spate and sardine colours. Good selections for yo-yo iron include Salas 6X and Salas 6X Jr. jigs in blue and lily-white, scrambled egg and off-color and chrome. The yellowtail observed along the coast have been quality sized fish with most up in the 15 -to-2 5-pound class.
Much of the San Diego County coastal net has been focused on sand bass, calico bass and sculpin with hard bottom and organize recognises developing most of the fish. The best place for sand bass has been fishing outside of and below the Imperial Beach Pier in 7 to 12 penetrates. Also productive has been such structures of the Imperial Beach Pipeline and hard sole areas outside of the Pipeline. Going further north, other productive halibut places have been the hard tush to the northwest of Buoy# 3 at Point Loma, the Jetty Kelp outside of Mission Bay, the upper result of La Jolla, the Anderson and Buccaneer Pipelines, the artificial reefs outside of Oceanside Harbor and Box Canyon.
There have been a few halibut chewing in areas up and down the San Diego County coast. Try sandy bottom beach and bay areas and recognizes where you can fish sandy bottom next to structure or can fish sandy underside contiguou to hard bottom.
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