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Yellowtail bites continued to be strong throughout the month of March as demonstrated by these two recent catches aboard Island Spirit (left) and Pt. Loma Sportfishing (right). Calico bass and rockfish are also popular catches as springtime fishing officially takes over.
yellowtail as 20 anglers caught 100 yel- lowtail. The first day of spring also saw limits of yellowtail caught aboard Mission Belle out of Point Loma Sportfishing with 11 anglers catching 55 yellowtail. Malihini out of H&M Landing fished a three-quarter-day trip the same day and had limits of yellow- tail with 23 anglers catching 115 yel- lowtail. H&M Landing also had Vendetta fishing a three-quarter-day trip on March 20 and found very good yellowtail action with 10 anglers catch- ing 39 yellowtail. There are also yellowtail biting at spots along the San Diego County coast with the upper end of La Jolla being the best zone while fishing the area of Northwest. The yellowtail bite is scratchy but there are some fish being caught each day and most are big bruiser sized yellowtail up in the 20- to 35-pound class. The yellowtail are bit- ing on yo-yoed iron and on mackerel that are fished on a dropper loop rig. There are also some yellowtail starting to show on the surface to where sur- face iron and flylined live baits might start producing yellowtail sometime soon as well. There are also a few yellowtail biting
in north San Diego County waters with the hard bottom rockfish grounds out- side of Box Canyon being another zone that has been producing occasional action on large yellowtail. The yellow- tail at Box Canyon have been found in the lower half of the water column by locating meter marks and sonar marks. Once located the yellowtail have been biting on yo-yoed iron and sardines or mackerel that are fished deep on a dropper loop rig. Catalina Island has also seen the
fishing break out into a springtime pat-
tern and produced good fishing for yel- lowtail and calico bass. Private boater Tom Golding of Last Buck reported excellent fishing for a mix of yellowtail, calico bass and rockfish during a recent trip to kelp bed areas along the back side of Catalina. Boats fishing hard bottom and
structure areas up and down the San Diego County coast continue to find a nice mix of sand bass, calico bass, sculpin and assorted rockfish biting. There has been some green water along the immediate coast making this fishing a bit tougher at times, but over- all, the bite has held up pretty well despite the off color water. Productive areas for rockfish and
bass in San Diego County from north to south have been Box Canyon, the artificial reefs outside of Oceanside, the Buccaneer and Anderson Pipelines, Leucadia, Del Mar, La Jolla, the 270, the Green Tank, the Point Loma Pipeline, the hard bottom outside of the Whistler Buoy at Point Loma, the Imperial Beach Pipeline and the International Reef. Spring has arrived and it is time to
start thinking about making that first fishing trip of the season if you have not done so already. The season is here! 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 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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