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Fish Report: Huge blue marlin topples marlin club crane
Steelhead, rainbow, and lightning trout for Santee Lakes trout opener
The scale-breaking massive blue marlin caught just outside the Coronado Islands on October 23rd, outweighing the top fish caught over 900 miles south in the world’s most lucrative tournament during the same week.
Dock Totals 10/19 – 10/25: 2224 anglers aboard 113 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings over the past week caught 3497 bluefin tuna (to 110 pounds), 15 bonito, 10 calico bass, 22 dorado, 3 halibut, 28 lingcod, 1 mako shark, 4 perch, 82 rock crab, 6105 rockfish, 38 sand bass, 20 sanddab, 459 sculpin, 70 sheephead, 133 spiny lobster (284 released), 136 whitefish, 85 yellowfin tuna, and 464 yellowtail.
Saltwater: This past week featured some amazing catches for the fleet, private boaters, and the teams fishing in the Bisbee’s Black and Blue tournament out of Cabo San Lucas. Bluefin tuna showed up like gangbusters, and though there were about a dozen more trips than the week previous, there were five fewer anglers — and almost three times the number of bluefin caught. Most of the fish were on the smaller side, but there was a good number in the 50- to 100-pound range.
The solid bluefin bite is still going on, and while the size range is a little smaller this week, the number of fish caught per angler was nearly triple that of the week previous.
Rockfish numbers also climbed impressively to over 6000 fish for the week. Some of that was in Mexican waters where they are open to all depths, but most were caught in water over 300 feet deep around our nearshore banks. Sheephead, sculpin, whitefish, and lingcod numbers have remained relatively low due to the depth restriction, though there has been excellent fishing for reds and lings in less than 300 feet off Ensenada and San Quintin.
Though bluefin tuna have been the most highlighted species since the beginning of the year, blue marlin garnered all the attention in the press this past week. In San Diego, the private vessel Listo headed out to fish outside the Coronado Islands with brothers Brennan and Mark Henwood and Sean Mulrooney aboard. While Mark captained and Sean manned the trolling rod, a huge fish hit and put on an hour and ten-minute battle on 100-pound test line and heavy gear before the pair could boat the fish.
They returned to the Marlin Club to weigh the fish and while they were trying to hoist it, the crane scale collapsed onto the boat, injuring two adults. One man suffered a leg injury while the other sustained a possible back injury; reports did not identify whether they were the guys who brought the fish to the scale, or others helping. The huge fish was weighed on another scale at 582.2 pounds! To put that into perspective, it is the largest blue weighed at the Marlin Club since a 662-pounder was weighed in 2015.
Blue marlin are fairly rare north of Baja Sur, but not out of Cabo San Lucas. After last week’s strong showing of both black and blue marlin during the Bisbee’s Los Cabos Offshore tournament, this week’s Black and Blue — another Bisbee’s event and the most lucrative fishing tournament in the world — brought high expectations. Some 178 teams entered, all chasing a total payout in prize and jackpot monies of $7,452,775.00. Team Magic Touch weighed in the largest fish, a 459-pound blue marlin, as well as the fourth place fish, weighing 344-pounds, netting the team a total of $2,440,850.00. To think, a boat within 25 miles of Point Loma brought in a fish over a hundred pounds larger than the Bisbee’s Black and Blue tournament winner!
On the freshwater side, Santee Lakes is hosting their Trout Opener on November 1 and 2, and this year, there will be a new species added. Along with the usual Jess Ranch rainbow and lightning trout, for the first time ever, they will include steelhead in the total of 3500 pounds stocked. Remember, Lakes 1 through 5 are for day use fishing, while Lakes 6 and 7 are for registered campground guests. There is no state fishing license required, anglers can purchase a fishing permit from the General Store, where bait and tackle are also available. They’re biting, so, whether the beach, bay, lake, or offshore, they’re out there so go out and get ‘em!
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Fish Report: Huge blue marlin topples marlin club crane
Steelhead, rainbow, and lightning trout for Santee Lakes trout opener
Fish Report: Huge blue marlin topples marlin club crane
Steelhead, rainbow, and lightning trout for Santee Lakes trout opener
The scale-breaking massive blue marlin caught just outside the Coronado Islands on October 23rd, outweighing the top fish caught over 900 miles south in the world’s most lucrative tournament during the same week.
Dock Totals 10/19 – 10/25: 2224 anglers aboard 113 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings over the past week caught 3497 bluefin tuna (to 110 pounds), 15 bonito, 10 calico bass, 22 dorado, 3 halibut, 28 lingcod, 1 mako shark, 4 perch, 82 rock crab, 6105 rockfish, 38 sand bass, 20 sanddab, 459 sculpin, 70 sheephead, 133 spiny lobster (284 released), 136 whitefish, 85 yellowfin tuna, and 464 yellowtail.
Saltwater: This past week featured some amazing catches for the fleet, private boaters, and the teams fishing in the Bisbee’s Black and Blue tournament out of Cabo San Lucas. Bluefin tuna showed up like gangbusters, and though there were about a dozen more trips than the week previous, there were five fewer anglers — and almost three times the number of bluefin caught. Most of the fish were on the smaller side, but there was a good number in the 50- to 100-pound range.
The solid bluefin bite is still going on, and while the size range is a little smaller this week, the number of fish caught per angler was nearly triple that of the week previous.
Rockfish numbers also climbed impressively to over 6000 fish for the week. Some of that was in Mexican waters where they are open to all depths, but most were caught in water over 300 feet deep around our nearshore banks. Sheephead, sculpin, whitefish, and lingcod numbers have remained relatively low due to the depth restriction, though there has been excellent fishing for reds and lings in less than 300 feet off Ensenada and San Quintin.
Though bluefin tuna have been the most highlighted species since the beginning of the year, blue marlin garnered all the attention in the press this past week. In San Diego, the private vessel Listo headed out to fish outside the Coronado Islands with brothers Brennan and Mark Henwood and Sean Mulrooney aboard. While Mark captained and Sean manned the trolling rod, a huge fish hit and put on an hour and ten-minute battle on 100-pound test line and heavy gear before the pair could boat the fish.
They returned to the Marlin Club to weigh the fish and while they were trying to hoist it, the crane scale collapsed onto the boat, injuring two adults. One man suffered a leg injury while the other sustained a possible back injury; reports did not identify whether they were the guys who brought the fish to the scale, or others helping. The huge fish was weighed on another scale at 582.2 pounds! To put that into perspective, it is the largest blue weighed at the Marlin Club since a 662-pounder was weighed in 2015.
Blue marlin are fairly rare north of Baja Sur, but not out of Cabo San Lucas. After last week’s strong showing of both black and blue marlin during the Bisbee’s Los Cabos Offshore tournament, this week’s Black and Blue — another Bisbee’s event and the most lucrative fishing tournament in the world — brought high expectations. Some 178 teams entered, all chasing a total payout in prize and jackpot monies of $7,452,775.00. Team Magic Touch weighed in the largest fish, a 459-pound blue marlin, as well as the fourth place fish, weighing 344-pounds, netting the team a total of $2,440,850.00. To think, a boat within 25 miles of Point Loma brought in a fish over a hundred pounds larger than the Bisbee’s Black and Blue tournament winner!
On the freshwater side, Santee Lakes is hosting their Trout Opener on November 1 and 2, and this year, there will be a new species added. Along with the usual Jess Ranch rainbow and lightning trout, for the first time ever, they will include steelhead in the total of 3500 pounds stocked. Remember, Lakes 1 through 5 are for day use fishing, while Lakes 6 and 7 are for registered campground guests. There is no state fishing license required, anglers can purchase a fishing permit from the General Store, where bait and tackle are also available. They’re biting, so, whether the beach, bay, lake, or offshore, they’re out there so go out and get ‘em!
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