61°F VISIBILITY
SURFACE TEMPERATURE: LOW
Water Conditions HIGH
63°F 10'–20'
A lighter tide swing coupled with moderate surf and a bit less wind should equate decent diving conditions inshore midweek. Visibility will lessen by the weekend as a chest-high swell rolls in out of the WNW. The surf will be best Friday and Saturday AM before the afternoon breeze gets on it. Boaters should especially 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
APRIL SUNSET LENGTH OF DAY
THUR 20
6:13 19:22 13H 9M
SAT 22
6:11 19:24
13H 13M
MON 24
6:09 19:25
13H 16M
WED 26
6:07 19:27
13H 20M
If you fished remote canyons, he fished remoter.
the shrimp fly. On Sundays from 9 a.m.–12 p.m., San
Diego Fly Fishers host a free fly-casting clinic at Lake Murray open to the public.
— Daniel Powell
The Know-It-All and the Space Invader Mr. Starbuck, a writing and literature coor- dinator at Mesa College, is the author of Lost Salmon (MoonPathPress) from which the following are taken. Know-it-all If it can be caught, shot, bought, or trophy- mounted, he’s done it. Any lure, idea, or solu- tion you offer is always inferior to what he has in mind. If you fished remote canyons, he fished remoter. If you know a good spot
to catch fish, forget it, because his mind (he thinks) is an SR-71 Blackbird and yours is a tricycle with a warped rim. If you really want to fish with this loudmouth, feign deafness and keep talking as if you heard nothing he said. Space Invader In a 70-yard stretch of emptiness, he will try to stand in your back pocket like you have been waiting for him all your life. However, sometimes he will materialize out of thin air the instant you hook or land a fish. Next, he will bring a crowd of other space invaders. The best solution is to howl like your appendix ruptured then projectile vomit. Orange Gatorade can be mixed with red grapes, peanuts, or squid for texture. Say, “I never had this problem until I traveled to Bolivia. I hope it’s not contagious.” Mr. Starbuck will read from his next
209.8 POUND BLUEFIN CAUGHT
Dock Totals 4/9 – 4/15: 2,511 anglers aboard 98 boats out of San Diego landings this past week caught 133 bluefin tuna, 1,875 yellowtail, 3 calico bass, 32 sand bass, 2,972 rockfish, 304 sanddab, 24 lingcod, 3 halibut, 12 bonito, 249 sculpin, 5 sheephead, 46 mackerel and 33 whitefish.
Saltwater: Though there were a thousand less yellowtail caught this past week and the bluefin count was down a bit, several boats got limits or near limits on yellowtail and some
A Moray eel along with its cleaner shrimp reside in some of the deep holes of New Hope Rock.
book, Hawk on Wire at Vanguard Culture in San Diego on May 2, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
New Hope Rock and Ancient Sea Cliffs (The following comes from the Point Loma section of
Divebums.com.) New Hope Rock is a very beautiful spot with large rock formations. Some of the boulders are over 15´ tall. You can navigate from one large rock to another or just explore the growth on an individual rock. One of the rocks (it might be the actual New Hope Rock) resembles the bow of a ship. The site used to be home to many abalone, but they are few and far between these days. There are a lot of lobsters, but the majority are small. Scallops can still be found and the fish life is very good. The rocks are in
of the bluefin tuna caught were well over 100 pounds with one weighing in at 209.8 pounds, a fat specimen hauled aboard the Oceanside 95 on an overnight run. Angler Steven Welsh dropped a nose-hooked sardine with a rubber-banded 3-oz. torpedo sinker to entice the big fish and brought it to gaff in just 30 minutes. The inshore fishing has been heating up as well for the private boaters, though not much is reflected in the landing counts as many of the ¾ day boats are out offshore looking for the tuna.
Freshwater: The local lakes are all reporting good fishing with species caught depending on which body of water and species
the kelp forest and the plant life is very good. We usually explore the bottom portions of the large boulders first, looking at sponges, anemones, octopus, lobsters, and other little critters found in cracks and crevices. We spend the last part of the dive going over the top of the rocks. Average depth: 20 feet at the top of New Hope Rock, 45 feet or so at the bottom. Ancient Sea Cliffs The Ancient Sea Cliffs refers to the sheer cliffs — in places with 30 feet or more of vertical — generally outside the kelp cover- age which were once the cliffs at water’s edge (a very long time ago). Examples of the Sea Cliffs are pretty much straight out from the Lighthouse at Point Loma, a mile or more offshore, where your fathometer can jump from 60 to 100 feet as you motor over slowly.
sought. Lake Wohlford, Lake Poway and Santee Lakes are reporting good trout fishing along with a decent catfish bite, while Lake Murray, Jennings and San Vicente are reporting a strong largemouth bass bite around structure on just about any lure commonly used from drop-shot plastics to top-water buzz baits. The morning hours have been best, with some anglers reporting up to a couple dozen bass caught and released in a few hours. Lake Skinner is a little slow on stripers, though they are reporting a ‘wide open’ bite on carp and decent panfish. Use dough balls for the carp and red worms or small nightcrawlers on the panfish.
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