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Fish Report: A wet week slows fishing off SoCal and northern Baja
Good deals on locally-sourced lobster
Some really good wahoo fishing a bit closer to home than normal for anglers aboard the Independence
Dock Totals 11/16 – 11/22: 396 anglers aboard 22 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings over the past week caught 3 bluefin tuna, 112 bonito, 21 calico bass, 1 halibut, 3 lingcod, 33 rock crab, 1001 rockfish, 69 sand bass, 25 sanddab, 165 sculpin, 50 sheephead, 81 spiny lobster (242 released), 211 whitefish, and 31 yellowtail.
Saltwater: As an atmospheric river flowed into Southern California and northern Baja, the ½ to 3-day fleet retreated to the dock, and those trips that did go out stayed close to home. Thus, the huge drop in angler numbers, trips, and pelagic counts for the week ending November 22nd. Atmospheric rivers tend to bring a lot of water with them — as their name would imply — and this one held true to form. As the main bands of rain focused from Los Angeles to El Rosario in northern Baja California, major flooding swamped many communities in low-lying areas. I live in the southern end of the San Quintin valley, and we are dealing with quite a mess, with many homes and businesses along the Carretera, or Highway 1, inundated.
Just before the rains hit, pelagic and endemic catches were on the rise for the short-run fleet, while long-range boats fishing south of the weather reported very good fishing for large bluefin tuna a little further south than "normal," and wahoo on kelps a little further north than their usual haunts. Much of that action centered on the San Pablo Canyon area down to the Polaris Bank — both reachable and within 30 miles of Bahia Asuncion for local pangeros, and about 450 miles south for the San Diego fleet. The Spirit of Adventure and the Independence both took advantage and reported wide-open bluefin caught to well over 200 pounds, and good numbers of wahoo on those free-floating kelp paddies. Wahoo are not often caught in numbers on a five-day run like Spirit of Adventure's; usually, they show up more on 8-day or longer trips to the Ridge off Bahia Magdalena and out off Alijos Rocks.
Bahia Asuncion friend Luis Cinco with a 227-pound bluefin tuna picked up on the troll while out with his brother Edgar fishing near San Pablo Canyon
Given that there were two separate fronts rolling through Southern California last week, it's no surprise to learn that there was only one boat targeting lobster on the inside on the 17th, only one boat fishing the local coast on the 20th, and no boats at all reporting on the 21st. Lobster hoop trips reported fair catches, with a 1 in 3 ratio of legals to shorts raised. This season, commercial lobster operations have been hurt, and prices have dropped due to China, and now Canada, seeking spiny lobster from other nations unaffected by tariffs. If you love eating "bugs," now is a good time for heading over to local fish markets like Tommy Gomes’ Tunaville Market and Grocery or the Tuna Harbor Dockside Market.
Looking forward, this coming week will be mostly sunny, with light winds until later Friday, when northwest winds will pick up offshore along the Southern California and the Baja Peninsula Pacific coast. Seas on the Pacific will be laying down Tuesday through Friday before picking up out of the WNW on Saturday as another front approaches along the same track as this past week’s fronts. But it is still a little far out to make any calls on how that will affect fishing. In the Sea of Cortez, the daily north winds will be stronger through the week and limiting fishing to the early hours of the day, which is fairly common beginning in November and through the spring.
Fat barred surf perch caught between the rains midweek while fishing with sand crabs in northern Baja
Surf fishing has been going well for those pounding the sand in search of perch, croaker, and even some corbina — that is, before the storms came through. I did very well on Socorro using sand crabs between the fronts, although my usual Carolina-rigged 2-inch paddle-tail grubs were mostly ignored. Sand crabs were getting bit within a minute of casting, and over a period of an hour and a half about midway into the dropping tide, I had non-stop action on barred surf perch to 14m inches while I let my blind rescue dog run the empty beach unabated. They’re biting, so, whether at the beach, bay, lake, or offshore, go out and get ‘em!
Here's something you might be interested in.
Fish Report: A wet week slows fishing off SoCal and northern Baja
Good deals on locally-sourced lobster
Fish Report: A wet week slows fishing off SoCal and northern Baja
Good deals on locally-sourced lobster
Some really good wahoo fishing a bit closer to home than normal for anglers aboard the Independence
Dock Totals 11/16 – 11/22: 396 anglers aboard 22 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings over the past week caught 3 bluefin tuna, 112 bonito, 21 calico bass, 1 halibut, 3 lingcod, 33 rock crab, 1001 rockfish, 69 sand bass, 25 sanddab, 165 sculpin, 50 sheephead, 81 spiny lobster (242 released), 211 whitefish, and 31 yellowtail.
Saltwater: As an atmospheric river flowed into Southern California and northern Baja, the ½ to 3-day fleet retreated to the dock, and those trips that did go out stayed close to home. Thus, the huge drop in angler numbers, trips, and pelagic counts for the week ending November 22nd. Atmospheric rivers tend to bring a lot of water with them — as their name would imply — and this one held true to form. As the main bands of rain focused from Los Angeles to El Rosario in northern Baja California, major flooding swamped many communities in low-lying areas. I live in the southern end of the San Quintin valley, and we are dealing with quite a mess, with many homes and businesses along the Carretera, or Highway 1, inundated.
Just before the rains hit, pelagic and endemic catches were on the rise for the short-run fleet, while long-range boats fishing south of the weather reported very good fishing for large bluefin tuna a little further south than "normal," and wahoo on kelps a little further north than their usual haunts. Much of that action centered on the San Pablo Canyon area down to the Polaris Bank — both reachable and within 30 miles of Bahia Asuncion for local pangeros, and about 450 miles south for the San Diego fleet. The Spirit of Adventure and the Independence both took advantage and reported wide-open bluefin caught to well over 200 pounds, and good numbers of wahoo on those free-floating kelp paddies. Wahoo are not often caught in numbers on a five-day run like Spirit of Adventure's; usually, they show up more on 8-day or longer trips to the Ridge off Bahia Magdalena and out off Alijos Rocks.
Bahia Asuncion friend Luis Cinco with a 227-pound bluefin tuna picked up on the troll while out with his brother Edgar fishing near San Pablo Canyon
Given that there were two separate fronts rolling through Southern California last week, it's no surprise to learn that there was only one boat targeting lobster on the inside on the 17th, only one boat fishing the local coast on the 20th, and no boats at all reporting on the 21st. Lobster hoop trips reported fair catches, with a 1 in 3 ratio of legals to shorts raised. This season, commercial lobster operations have been hurt, and prices have dropped due to China, and now Canada, seeking spiny lobster from other nations unaffected by tariffs. If you love eating "bugs," now is a good time for heading over to local fish markets like Tommy Gomes’ Tunaville Market and Grocery or the Tuna Harbor Dockside Market.
Looking forward, this coming week will be mostly sunny, with light winds until later Friday, when northwest winds will pick up offshore along the Southern California and the Baja Peninsula Pacific coast. Seas on the Pacific will be laying down Tuesday through Friday before picking up out of the WNW on Saturday as another front approaches along the same track as this past week’s fronts. But it is still a little far out to make any calls on how that will affect fishing. In the Sea of Cortez, the daily north winds will be stronger through the week and limiting fishing to the early hours of the day, which is fairly common beginning in November and through the spring.
Fat barred surf perch caught between the rains midweek while fishing with sand crabs in northern Baja
Surf fishing has been going well for those pounding the sand in search of perch, croaker, and even some corbina — that is, before the storms came through. I did very well on Socorro using sand crabs between the fronts, although my usual Carolina-rigged 2-inch paddle-tail grubs were mostly ignored. Sand crabs were getting bit within a minute of casting, and over a period of an hour and a half about midway into the dropping tide, I had non-stop action on barred surf perch to 14m inches while I let my blind rescue dog run the empty beach unabated. They’re biting, so, whether at the beach, bay, lake, or offshore, go out and get ‘em!
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