south bay- the deep south?
Or maybe I should say the not so deep south. Does anyone here ever fish way down in south bay where the water is only 1ft deep at low tide? It seems to me like you should be able to find croakers and bonefish tailing or mudding back there. Yellow fin, black and spotfin croaker are so similar to redfish it just makes sense they would share certain behaviors. I am thinking of grabbing the fly rod and giving it a go this weekend if anyone wants to try sight fishing back there. If all else fails, we can go back to the deeper water and still catch fish.
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I've fished south bay for decades and have never seen fish tailing before. But I'm not in water that shallow often. Although they look a bit similar, red fish and our west coast spot fin and yellow fin croaker behave much differently. Never heard of spot or yellow fin tailing or being any where close to as insanely aggressive as reds can be. Give the area a look, you might find some thing new. And like you said, you can easily move to the deeper water. Mike
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The only thing I've been able to sight fish are Corbina from shore. They like real skinny water. I bet if you can tie a sand crab pattern you'd kill em.
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The only fish breaking the surface are usually mullet. You can launch at J street marina. If you want a better chance at a bonefish launch out of bayside or pepper park.
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just be careful of your location. some of the best bone fish area is in the san diego bay national wildlife refuge
no fishing in this area http://www.fws.gov/refuge/San_Diego_Bay/map.html |
if you have a cell phone i highly suggest to get an app called
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Thank RoadX, I was unaware that was a closed area. I'm coming up on 2 years of being out here from boston and finding so many of the best looking spots around here are closed off. On second look there may still be a few spots that might have what I'm looking for I just have to mind the map. Also is fish alerts an iphone app? I couldn't find it in the google play store.
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So who's in? saturday is a 10:16 low, usually in a flats fishing situation looking for fish in skinny water, this is prime. The sun if it's out will be fairly high for visibility and the fish should follow the tide up onto the flats and feed on crabs, shrimp and minnows.
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Use some bonefish flies and you should do well.
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sorry was outta town, would have joined. post up for the next round up. i'll pump some ghost shrimp
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windy, lots of mullet jumping and ran into a school of something I couldn't identify but they spooked. Need to try again in better conditions. Also need to bring a floating fly line and some smaller weedless shrimp patterns or wait for the tide to come in further onto the grassless mud flats. The grass in those shallow areas is seriously thick.
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