The San Diego

2 bonito 24 barracuda 8 calico bass 97 whitefish 40 rockfish. Covered a lot of ground around the islands looking for good water and yellowtail but never found it. With the lack luster conditions at the islands we’ve decided to head offshore in search for greener pastures. If you’re coming out on these offshore trips please be prepared for everything!

Tackle Recommendations:
25-30lb flyline
40-60lb sniper
60-100lb sinker rig

6 yellowtail 143 big bonito. Large aggressive bonito in the morning and a couple shots at yellowtail in the afternoon.

1 yellowtail and limits of very large bonito. Spent the morning hopscotching aggressive schools of bonito then spent the rest of the day hunting for yellowtail. While we saw some nice schools of yellows they were extremely finicky.

Searched from one end of our zone to the other for zero yellowtail. The few opportunities we did get were squashed by either sealions, or the slow trollers. The search starts tomorrow.

36 yellowtail. Lots of looking for a couple of quick shots. Ultra clean and warm water in every area actually makes locating the biomass more difficult.

59 yellowtail. One good shot and a bunch of stops for a few at a time.

35 yellowtail. Conditions and boat pressure had the fish in an “off” mood. Still feel like there’s big hit potential, hopefully tomorrow!

59 yellowtail. More stop and go action!

95 yellowtail. Right place, right time on multiple occasions today.

36 yellowtail 10 calico bass 4 ling cod. Lack of conditions but no lack of boats. Flylined baits and surface iron got most of the action.