Here's something you might be interested in.
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
Forty-three-pound halibut wins angler $2950
A true testament of bounce-ball success
Top two halibut in derby caught by angler Mike Lagrisola (center) within 20 minutes of each other
Dock Totals:
Feb 25 - Mar 3: 1114 anglers aboard 55 boats out of San Diego landings this past week caught 518 yellowtail, 67 calico bass, 53 sand bass, 3,065 rockfish, 247 whitefish, 13 lingcod, 10 bonito, 13 halibut, 234 sculpin, 425 sanddab, 43 sheephead, 127 bocaccio, 10 California lizardfish, and 16 spiny lobster.
Saltwater:
Opening day for rockfish was nestled nicely between two cold fronts and was somehow calm, warmish, and with light seas. The groundfish cooperated as well as the weather, and the sand bass and sculpin got a break from the pressure as boats scattered to their favorite spots where the deeper reefs and canyons hold large reds, vermilions and lingcod. The ¾ to 1.5 day boats going south of the border scratched up some yellowtail at a 2 or 3 fish per rod pace, but most of the effort was concentrated on the bottom. Still, when found biting, the yellowtail are eating yoyo iron and surface jigs.
The ongoing Wednesday halibut tournament on the Dolphin out of Fisherman's Landing ended on February 28th with a bang: Angler Mike Lagrisola used a "bounce ball" type setup with a live sardine to catch the largest two fish of the eight week long winner-take-all tournament. Mr. Lagrisola took home $2950 for his winning 43 pound halibut…that was caught just 20 minutes after landing a 23 pound halibut, which was the leading fish to that point. That is the true testament of the bounce-ball success when targeting halibut.
Typically, a three-way swivel is used with about two feet of leader going to the weight and a three foot leader to the hook. A baitfish, live or dead, is pinned on the hook and with the weight large enough to drag or "bounce" along the bottom causing a bit of "commotion," the halibut is attracted to the bait that is trailing along, just above the ocean floor. The bounce ball is the most common technique used by anglers in the northeastern Pacific while targeting the larger Pacific halibut that grow to several hundred pounds and live in deeper water.
California halibut get to about 60 pounds, and fish over 50 pounds are very rare. They tend to hang out in shallower water than the Pacific halibut and thus can be targeted with a broader range of tactics, including plastics on leadheads and even spoons casted and retrieved from the beach.
Top boats of the week:
Feb 25 - The Chief 1.5 day trip with 29 anglers called in with 290 rockfish. 43 anglers aboard the Liberty full day run to the Coronado Islands caught 86 yellowtail.
Feb 26 - 63 yellowtail, 20 rockfish, and 1 halibut were caught by 20 anglers aboard the San Diego full day trip south of the border.
Feb 28 - The Dolphin called in with 14 sculpin, 6 sand bass, and 36 halibut caught on the final day of their ongoing halibut tournament with 48 anglers aboard. 31 halibut were released.
Mar 1 - The New Seaforth ½ day run with 25 anglers aboard called in with 208 rockfish, 4 lingcod, 2 sheephead, and 15 whitefish caught.
Mar 2 - The Electra out of Oceanside reported 2 sculpin, 15 sanddab, 32 rockfish, 7 bocaccio, 41 mackerel and 55 whitefish caught by 9 anglers aboard their ¾-day run.
Fish Plants:
3/9 - Santee Lakes, trout (TBD)
3/13 - Cuyamaca, trout (1200)
Here's something you might be interested in.
Forty-three-pound halibut wins angler $2950
A true testament of bounce-ball success
Forty-three-pound halibut wins angler $2950
A true testament of bounce-ball success
Top two halibut in derby caught by angler Mike Lagrisola (center) within 20 minutes of each other
Dock Totals:
Feb 25 - Mar 3: 1114 anglers aboard 55 boats out of San Diego landings this past week caught 518 yellowtail, 67 calico bass, 53 sand bass, 3,065 rockfish, 247 whitefish, 13 lingcod, 10 bonito, 13 halibut, 234 sculpin, 425 sanddab, 43 sheephead, 127 bocaccio, 10 California lizardfish, and 16 spiny lobster.
Saltwater:
Opening day for rockfish was nestled nicely between two cold fronts and was somehow calm, warmish, and with light seas. The groundfish cooperated as well as the weather, and the sand bass and sculpin got a break from the pressure as boats scattered to their favorite spots where the deeper reefs and canyons hold large reds, vermilions and lingcod. The ¾ to 1.5 day boats going south of the border scratched up some yellowtail at a 2 or 3 fish per rod pace, but most of the effort was concentrated on the bottom. Still, when found biting, the yellowtail are eating yoyo iron and surface jigs.
The ongoing Wednesday halibut tournament on the Dolphin out of Fisherman's Landing ended on February 28th with a bang: Angler Mike Lagrisola used a "bounce ball" type setup with a live sardine to catch the largest two fish of the eight week long winner-take-all tournament. Mr. Lagrisola took home $2950 for his winning 43 pound halibut…that was caught just 20 minutes after landing a 23 pound halibut, which was the leading fish to that point. That is the true testament of the bounce-ball success when targeting halibut.
Typically, a three-way swivel is used with about two feet of leader going to the weight and a three foot leader to the hook. A baitfish, live or dead, is pinned on the hook and with the weight large enough to drag or "bounce" along the bottom causing a bit of "commotion," the halibut is attracted to the bait that is trailing along, just above the ocean floor. The bounce ball is the most common technique used by anglers in the northeastern Pacific while targeting the larger Pacific halibut that grow to several hundred pounds and live in deeper water.
California halibut get to about 60 pounds, and fish over 50 pounds are very rare. They tend to hang out in shallower water than the Pacific halibut and thus can be targeted with a broader range of tactics, including plastics on leadheads and even spoons casted and retrieved from the beach.
Top boats of the week:
Feb 25 - The Chief 1.5 day trip with 29 anglers called in with 290 rockfish. 43 anglers aboard the Liberty full day run to the Coronado Islands caught 86 yellowtail.
Feb 26 - 63 yellowtail, 20 rockfish, and 1 halibut were caught by 20 anglers aboard the San Diego full day trip south of the border.
Feb 28 - The Dolphin called in with 14 sculpin, 6 sand bass, and 36 halibut caught on the final day of their ongoing halibut tournament with 48 anglers aboard. 31 halibut were released.
Mar 1 - The New Seaforth ½ day run with 25 anglers aboard called in with 208 rockfish, 4 lingcod, 2 sheephead, and 15 whitefish caught.
Mar 2 - The Electra out of Oceanside reported 2 sculpin, 15 sanddab, 32 rockfish, 7 bocaccio, 41 mackerel and 55 whitefish caught by 9 anglers aboard their ¾-day run.
Fish Plants:
3/9 - Santee Lakes, trout (TBD)
3/13 - Cuyamaca, trout (1200)
Comments