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they saw a wahoo cruise by while they were fishing the paddie. Private boater Jim Cook of
Ambusher fished a recent trip to the 390 Bank and reported a catch of five yellowfin tuna and one yellowtail. His five tuna were caught on the troll from two porpoise schools. One of the pro- ductive porpoise schools was found on top of the 390 Bank at 46 miles 210 degrees from Point Loma and the other was found while fishing a few miles inside of the 390 Bank at 43 miles 205 degrees from Point Loma. Private boater John Wilson of Dos
Gringos reported finding a very good yellowfin tuna bite while fishing a kelp paddie that he found inside of the 302 Spot. It was limit style fishing for them and they found the hot kelp paddie at 20 miles 222 degrees from Point Loma. Private boater Bryan Cruz of Double
Cross reported about fishing a recent trip to the area of the 1010 Trench and 1067 Trench. Cruz reported catching some quality sized fish and had a count of 15 yellowfin tuna and five dorado. One of their dorado was a jumbo sized 40 pounder and they also had two dorado that were up around 25 pounds.
They also caught some of the larger
sized yellowfin tuna from a porpoise school. Cruz reported a couple of yel- lowfin that were in the 35 to 40 pound range and also reported having a few 20- to 25-pound yellowfin in the mix. Their best fishing was found a short way above the 1067 Trench at 68 miles 199 degrees from Point Loma. Large blue marlin continue to bite
and there have been some long battles with 400- to 600-pound fish that have been won by the engaged blue marlin. Some of the blue marlin hookups have come and gone very quickly in spool- ing the trolling gear of its line in short order and others have resulted in bat- tles that have lasted for many hours. The most recent long blue marlin battle was reported by Mike Bratton of Scott’s Johnny who reported hooking a large blue marlin at 9 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 5, and ultimately loosing the fish nearly 12 hours later in the dark and thick fog at 8:46 p.m. Bratton estimat- ed the size of the blue marlin to be between 400 and 500 pounds and was thinking he might be conservative in that estimate. The fish was hooked on a trolling outfit filled with 60-pound test line and Bratton said that it bit a black and red David Matsuura jig. During the nearly 12-hour battle
Bratton said they traveled about 17 miles in fighting the fish with the hookup beginning outside of the upper end of the 9 Mile Bank and end- ing 17 miles away while located about half way between the 182 Spot and the 43 Fathom Spot. The fish ultimately won this encounter but I congratulate Mike Bratton and the crew aboard Scott’s Johnny for their great battle. Striped marlin have been biting for boats fishing spots around Catalina Island and for boats fishing offshore banks within 25 miles of Point Loma. An additional productive area that has produced some recent action has been
2 to 12 miles off the coast between San Onofre and Oceanside. I am estimat- ing that 10 striped marlin were caught in the Catalina area over the last week- end. My estimation is also that 15 striped marlin were caught and mostly released by boats fishing in the San Diego area over the past weekend. Productive areas around Catalina have been the Slide, the 125 Spot, the 152 Spot, the East End Light, Church Rock, the 14 Mile Bank, the 267 Spot and the 499 Spot. A lot of the action at areas off the eastern part of Catalina has come while fishing in close to the Island where bait might be located in 40 to 60 fathoms of water. In the San Diego area productive
areas for striped marlin have been the outside of the upper and the middle parts of the 9 Mile Bank, the 224 Spot, the 302 Spot and the 371 Bank. Mike McGrath of Thumper reported catching and releasing an estimated 175-pound marlin while fishing out- side of the upper/middle part of the 9 Mile Bank. The fish was caught on a mackerel that was dropped back into the wake during a trolling strike. Capt. Bob Woodard, Jr., of
Dropback reported getting two marlin hookups on a recent trip to the area of the 224 Spot and catching one of the two fish. The action came from jig strikes found while fishing inside of the 224 Spot at 19 miles 230 degrees from Point Loma. Ken Schilling of Reel Busy reported catching and releasing a marlin on his most recent trip while fishing out at the 371 Bank. Schilling reported going one for two on the marlin hookups that day with their other opportunity coming while fishing outside of the middle part of the 9 Mile Bank. They had their action from blind jig strikes on the troll.
The best technique has been to
keep moving so as to not become a stationary target for the seals. Slow trolling nose hooked sardines has been an effective way to locate fish and the techniques of trolling Rapalas and feathers have also been working well. After getting a trolling strike, anglers have been drifting and fishing with live bait and iron until the seals invade their stop and end their bite. The yellowtail have been mixed size fish that have gone from five to 25 pounds. The bonito that have been biting have included some nice sized fish and they have been ranging in size from 2 to 10 pounds.
The 2014 fishing fall fishing season is still going strong. 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 internet fish report service called 976-Bite which can be found at
976bite.com. Vanian also provides anglers with a personal fish report service 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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