California

[shyoctaneangling]

Heading to California in august, San Francisco - down to San Diago. Hoping to have a day on a charter boat, anyone know on what I could catch at that time of year out of san diego. Also i'd love to do some shore fishing preferbly lure fishing, so what species and tactics should I be using/targeting

Any help much appreciated
Thank you

[Kingfish81]

Shy, it might be worth having a look to see whether you can get onto a long range charter from San Diego. Some big boats run out really wide after tuna. From what I've read, they pack the anglers onto the boat, however it gives you a very real chance of hooking into big (100lb+) tuna. I think that in Cali at that time of year you get pelagics like marlin, tuna, dorado, yellowtail etc plus the typical run of bottom species.

This site (http://www.sportfishing.org/) looks to have a load of useful info about fishing in San Diego. The Coronado Island and Outer Banks trips in particular look good...

[PanamaJack]

Hi Shy
Another site you might want to view is http://www.sdfish.com/ - the 'SD' stands for San Diego. It also contains links to local salt and freshwater forums.
Dave
PS You should find that the El Nino currently building off Central and the northern half of South America is likely to 'push' larger numbers of Striped Marlin up into Southern Californian waters this year.

[shyoctaneangling]

thanks guys. will check out the links and hopefully post a report when i get back!

[Kingfish81]

Although Dave I'm personally hoping that the current El Nino will fade out, as otherwise it can play havoc with the fishing in the Sea of Cortez. In 1998, the Baja area was virtually a piscatorial desert... Fingers crossed it doesn't happen this year!!

[Happy Dude]

Heading to California in august, San Francisco - down to San Diago. Hoping to have a day on a charter boat, anyone know on what I could catch at that time of year out of san diego. Also i'd love to do some shore fishing preferbly lure fishing, so what species and tactics should I be using/targeting

Any help much appreciated
Thank you

hi,

i was in california about 10 years ago and travelled all the way up from san diego to san francisco.

there is plenty of boatsfishing available where ever you go, but you needed to look for it, it wasn't as "in your face" as say florida is

i didn't fish but from what i could see the mainstay of the inshore fishing was salmon and halibut, not the huge ones, california halibut....

saw a guy catch a mackerel off the pier in santa barbara which looked almost exactly like our mackies, he threw it back in disgust and proceeded to pile a lump of purple refrozen squid on his hooks, what a waste of fresh bait....

from the photos in the pier tackleshop the main species off the pier was halibut also, fish which looked about 6-10lb

[shyoctaneangling]

thanks for that

it was very usefull

[local rookie]

I live in Southern California! If you want to fish the surf, you'll need a short 6'6 medium action rod, fast tip and casting out a Luckycraft 110 Flash Minnow Sardine pattern jerkbaits. You want to use 15lb line for this and try several retrieves.

It that doesn't work you ca try drop shotting usig 6lb fluorocarbon line little plastic shad. Let me know if you need assistance with that.

If you want more information about a landing, let me know what city you are staying out at.

Tight Lines!