Water Conditions HIGH
SURFACE TEMPERATURE: LOW
61°F VISIBILITY
63°F 5'–20'
The offshore conditions early in the week will ease by Thursday and daytime temps will drop back to a normal range. A W/WNW swell to 7’ will arrive with some decent surf Thursday through Sunday for the carvers. Though it will be stirred up just outside of the surf, by Sunday the tide swing will flatten to less than 2’, which should provide good visibility for the divers in deeper water. Boaters should keep an extra eye out for divers near the reefs and channel edges and divers always mark yourselves and area appropriately.
Visibility based on existing conditions and NOAA predicted swell and weather conditions at press time. Check up-to-date daily visibility/ conditions at the San Diego County Lifeguard info line: 619-221-8824
Moon Calendar SUNRISE
FEB/MAR SUNSET
THUR 25
6:21 17:43
LENGTH OF DAY 11H 22M
SAT 27
6:19 17:44
11H 25M
MON 29
6:17 17:46
11H 29M
WED 2
6:14 17:47
11H 33M
Surfer with a head injury
The study began in 2013, signing up surf- ers in San Diego and Orange County to answer health questions after participants went surf- ing and researchers took daily water samples at Tourmaline and the Ocean Beach breaks. Via the internet or a smartphone app, surfers answered questions about their health since surfing, with some questions focused on ten health problems that include gastro- intestinal distress, sinus and ear problems, skin rashes and infected cuts and scrapes; and respiratory illnesses. If they participated for four weeks, surfers received a gift card to an online surf shop.
During dry weather, the water is pretty clean, Schiff affirmed. But in wet weather, urban runoff and other factors increase the chance of encountering bacteria and patho- gens. The question is how to measure them to
MATCH THE HATCH
Inshore: Sculpin, yellowtail and calico bass continue to lead the inshore counts for the sportboats. Kayakers are reporting a decent bite on white seabass, mostly off the northern edge of the La Jolla kelp beds outside of Boomers in 100 feet of water or so. There are lots of pelagic crab and krill in the water from just behind the surf line on out to the offshore banks firing up the inshore bite. Many of the fish caught, whether bass, sculpin, yellowtail or shallow rockfish, are fat (or in angler terminology, ‘plugged’) with these small crustaceans.
get results that are relevant to human health. Schiff said they are trying to determine whether looking for fecal-indicator bacteria including enterococcus — a bacteria found in the gut of warm-blooded animals — is a useful indicator for the presence of viruses (including norovirus and adenovirus) that actually make people sick. Beach water-quality testing currently
looks for fecal-indicator bacteria by cultur- ing it, which means that the most current information is a day old because of the test- ing method. “Our current water testing relies on methods that are over 50 years old, where you inoculate a petri dish and stick it in an oven the same temperature as your gut and let it grow for 24 hours,” Schiff said. “For the study, we are using technology that lets us
Polar bear swimmers
take a sample in the morning and have results before noon.”
— Marty Graham
To Madagascar and back La Jolla Cove Swim Club members are aim- ing to accumulate total mileage swum from November 15, 2015, through April 15, 2016, to go from San Diego to Madagascar and back — 13,000 miles. Names and individual miles must be reported to “Mr. Chill” (big-
chillswim@aol.com). There are maps in the club display box at the cove showing the mileage between buoys and other coastal locations in La Jolla. Miles swum outside of San Diego are acceptable as long as they are in a salt water ocean or sea for a period of not more than two weeks.
Miles swum in water below 55 degrees earn
In past years under similar conditions, a well-presented sardine or bait-sized greenback mackerel can fire up the larger gamefish that have had their fill of krill and crab. The old fly-fishing motto, ‘match the hatch’ applies in the ocean as well, so don’t overlook any red- tinted lures in the arsenal.
Outside: The Coronado Islands have been on fire for the ¾ day trips heading south, with boats returning with a very nice grade of yellowtail to over 30 pounds. Most of these fish have been caught deeper in the water column on yoyo iron, though a few are caught with live bait on a dropper loop. Mid-range Baja coast trips are concentrating on
a 25 percent bonus; less than 50 degrees earns 50 percent bonus. Pool miles not acceptable.
Unlit and overloaded Customs and Border Patrol officials, working in cooperation with the U.S. Coast Guard, seized an “unlit and overloaded vessel” packed with undocumented immigrants off the municipal fishing pier in Ocean Beach on February 8. According to a Customs report, a patrol boat received word around 10:30 p.m. that a pleasure craft had crossed the international border and appeared to be dead in the water near the pier. A Border Patrol helicopter then located the vessel and directed maritime agents to the location, who found “a vessel with nine persons onboard,” all of whom were later deemed to be in the country illegally. — Dave Rice
the fantastic yellowtail action from the border south. The long-range trips to south of Cabo San Lucas to the Puerto Vallarta area are putting up good numbers on large yellowfin tuna to over 200 pounds and wahoo to 70 pounds.
2/14 - 2/20 Dock Totals: 1295 anglers aboard 56 boats out of San Diego landings this past week caught 766 yellowtail, 151 calico bass, 222 sand bass, 1,584 rockfish, 4 lingcod, 959 sculpin, 15 rubberlip seaperch, 26 bonito, 110 sanddab, 10 barracuda, 32 halfmoon, 14 blacksmith, 15 spiny lobster, 1 rock crab and 134 mackerel.
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