PhotosDock Totals 2/9 – 2/15: 230 anglers aboard 12 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings over the past week caught 7 calico bass, 2 halibut, 11 rock crab, 66 sand bass, 44 …
February 18, 2025
Articles by Daniel Powell
Fishing report: Slow wet week for the fleet
It’s like cowtown down south
Dock Totals 2/2 – 2/8: 426 anglers aboard 22 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings over the past week caught 3 calico bass, 6 halibut (to 34 pounds), 12 rock crab, 390 …
February 9, 2025
Plenty of elbow room with low angler turnout for the local fleet
Dock Totals 1/26 – 2/1: 315 anglers aboard 19 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings over the past week caught 8 calico bass, 1 halibut, 113 sand bass, 65 sanddab, 318 sculpin, …
February 2, 2025
San Diego, look to the bluefin
It wasn’t always bluefin. Albacore came first, just as A comes before B in the alphabet. Back in the ‘60s, while I was still in my single-digit years, I remember seeing long-finned albacore swimming under …
January 29, 2025
Wintertime rockfish in Mexico – Long range trips hammering yellowfin and wahoo
Dock Totals 1/19 – 1/25: 449 anglers aboard 21 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings over the past week caught 9 blacksmith perch, 25 bonito, 3 halibut (9 released), 50 lingcod, 14 …
January 26, 2025
Tuna Still Holding Halfway Down Baja
Dock Totals 1/12 – 1/18: 463 anglers aboard 23 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings over the past week caught 11 blacksmith perch, 10 calico bass, 2 croaker, 1 rock crab, 200 …
January 19, 2025
Winter Doldrums? ‘Tis the Magical Season in Baja
Dock Totals 1/5 – 1/11: 341 anglers aboard 23 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings over the past week caught 5 calico bass, 7 halibut (11 released), 1 halfmoon, 8 rock crab, …
January 12, 2025
Chunky wintertime yellowtail off La Jolla
Dock Totals 12/29 – 1/4: 1192 anglers aboard 44 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings over the past week caught 9 calico bass, 4 halibut (22 released), 26 rock crab, 3483 rockfish, …
January 5, 2025
December yellowfin biting well – Rockfish over until April
Dock Totals 12/22 – 12/28: 934 anglers aboard 37 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings over the past week caught 2 rock crab, 3931 rockfish, 102 sand bass, 423 sculpin, 4 sheephead, …
December 29, 2024