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sonar marks with their scanning sonar. Hadfield spent the afternoon fishing
for yellowtail at the South Kelp Ridge below South Island. He found a few schools of yellowtail holding deep via sonar marks and they were able to catch one yellowtail out of two hookups while using yo-yoed iron. Their fish count for the day was six anglers on an overnight trip catching one bonito, one yellowtail, two lingcod, 30 rockfish, six sculpin and 17 reds. Boats fishing out of San Diego Bay have been doing well on the rockfish while fishing hard bottom spots out- side of the Whistler Buoy at Point Loma. The Imperial Beach Pipeline, the Dropoff at Point Loma and the Point Loma Pipeline have also been productive spots for rockfish. In the La Jolla region, there have been sporadic showings of yellowtail ranging in the area from outside of Mission Bay to the upper end of La Jolla. The yellowtail have been hard to catch because they are usually up and down very quickly and have sounded before being able to cast a jig to fish that are still on the surface. Every once in a while someone is able to hook a nice sized yellowtail but overall, the La Jolla and Mission Bay area yellowtail bite has been scratchy. Boats fishing hard bottom areas outside of the upper end of La Jolla and out to the west of Mission Bay have been picking up pretty good numbers of rockfish while fishing in depths ranging from 25 to 45 fathoms of water. Look for a chance at catching a halibut while fishing the sandy bot- tom next to structure outside of Mission Beach and Pacific Beach. Drifting alongside of the structure
of the Yukon wreck or the sunken NEL Tower can help you focus on produc- tive sandy bottom halibut areas. In the northern San Diego County
region, there have been rockfish biting for boats fishing outside of Del Mar, Solana Beach South Cardiff, Leucadia and Box Canyon. Also try for a few bass and sculpin while fishing the artificial reefs outside of Oceanside Harbor and
the structure of the Anderson and Buccaneer Pipelines. Drifting the sandy bottom around
the structure of the artificial reefs out- side of Oceanside Harbor and the sandy bottom off of the Golf Ball can lead to some halibut action. Boats fish- ing out of Dana Point have reported finding some halibut activity while drifting sandy bottom around the pipeline at San Onofre and outside of the edges of kelp at the Barn. There have been a few yellowtail and white seabass biting at San Clemente and Catalina Islands. At San Clemente Island there have been some squid to catch for bait at night in Pyramid Cove but the seals often make it difficult to catch the squid for bait. Try for white seabass where you might locate some squid in Pyramid Cove and try for yellowtail at the ridge areas outside of Pyramid Cove and along the back side of the middle part of the Island in the Windmill area. At Catalina there have been a few squid to jig for bait outside of the Isthmus and outside of the V’s. Look for a chance at a white seabass at the squid area outside of the V’s as well as off Salta Verde, Little Harbor, West Cove and Iron Bound Cove. There has been a chance at picking up a yellowtail in the early morning hours while fishing the squid area off the V’s as well as while fishing the Church Rock area at the East End of Catalina. There are lots of options to choose
from when targeting fish in this early season. The spring fishing should get nothing but better as the water contin- ues to warm. Keep on fishing and I hope to see you out on the water!
Bob Vanian is the voice, writer and researcher of the San Diego-based inter- net fish report service called 976-Bite which can be found at
www.976bite.com. Vanian also provides anglers with a personal fish report serv- ice over the telephone at (619) 226- 8218. He always welcomes your fish reports at that same phone number or at
bob976bite@aol.com.
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