Weekly fish report

½ Day - ¾ Day: Rockfish and sculpin are the main catch on the ½ day boats with an occasional home-guard yellowtail being caught. ¾ day trips to the Coronado Islands are still putting up good numbers on the yellows, as well as lingcod and rockfish. Sand bass and calicos are starting to show as the water temp holds in the low 60s.

1 Day to 2.5 Day: It’s been real good for yellowtail off the beach in the YoYo mode in 160 feet of water or so with most anglers catching limits. Rockfish and lingcod are coming in good numbers and with size. Some real nice halibut are being caught in 60’ of water in the Colonet area. No tuna yet, but bonito and barracuda are abundant off the kelp edges in 100’ of water

Long-Range - Baja: It’s on at the Hurricane Bank but the Buffer Zone is not as productive as usual with mostly smaller grade yellowfin tuna. So taking the chance on heading into the lower zone and hitting some of the high spots for grouper and yellowtail might be a good plan. The fishing has been excellent all along the beach from Colonet to Todos Santos.

Freshwater: It’s pretty much the word around the county that the largemouth bass are up and active a bit early. There are still some monster trout coming from the lakes that hold them. Shell-crackers and catfish are starting to show occasionally as though winter never happened.

Whale Report: The whale-watch operations are reporting multiple sightings of gray whales heading north and south as this epic season continues from Alaska down the line to the calving grounds in Baja.

Trout Plants: 03/18/15 Cuyamaca (1200), Poway (1500)