San Diego Saltwater Fishing Blog – El Gato Dos

Fished on another boat today and found some nice Yellowfin fairly close to home. Let’s go!!

Had a nice double on Thresher today, one released, one taken. Great fish!

You want bass? We got bass! Fished a few 1/2 days today for good fishing on Calico and Sandbass. Decent conditions in the AM, better in the afternoon. No exotics seen today, tried a little sharkin, no sharks. We were rewarded with a big whale showing us it’s tail a few hundred feet from the boat and tons of dolphins, porpoise, or whatever you want to call them. Flipper, call them flipper and call it a day. Fish tacos for all my friends!!!

Had a epic day with my favorite group from AZ yesterday. High quality rockfish, and a nice Thresher shark to top off the day. Thanks Tucker, Michaelene, Matt, Heather, Miguel and Jeanne. Miguel subdued the shark in about 25 min. Nice work!! When the tuna are not biting, there’s still plenty of good fish around to catch.

Holy crap spring was good and bad. There were Seabass around, but overall the water was cold as January and green as can be. The past two days the sun has finally been showing it’s face and the sea water is saying “thank you!” This guy thought summer would never come or show up some time with Santa. With the warmer water comes some trips. So we fish this weekend. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. We still have Saturday open if you want to fish in the morning. The rest of next week looks good, so book a trip before someone else does.

Nice La Jolla Yellowtail. Come get some!!!!

Weather is cooler than normal here in San Diego, but our local fishing for Calico Bass is going well. We have been running 1/2 day trips targeting the bass in the La Jolla area. The Coronado Islands have had good fishing on the Cailco bass, a few Yellowtail and some rare Bluefin tuna in the mix.

Did an AM 1/2 today topped with a monster 44″ 35 pound Halibut. Had quite a few other fish including a nice Leopard shark, many Calico bass, Sandbass and some fun to pull on Batrays. Thanks to Sean and his crew for a great trip!!

Fished yesterday and had an angler catch a huge Black Seabass. Fish was approx. 75 pounds. We originally thought it was a nice Yellowtail. The fish was kept in the water, hook removed and it swam away quickly and very healthy. There is great Yellowtail fishing at the Cornados right now. It’s time to fish!

Fished a 3/4 day local trip Saturday and had excellent bass fishing. Fish were biting, sardines, chovie and the surface iron the entire day. The area was very fishy and we might go exploring up there this week in search of bigger fish. I’ll post what we find. Weather saturday was less than ideal, wind from the south all day and not much sun. But it’s June, we are in San Diego and life is good!!!

Still out of our range, or ever overnight fishing range, boats heading south on 2 day+ trips have been seeing some epic tuna fishing the last week. A few boats had limits and were catch and releasing another round of limits of fish. The Albacore were in the 20-30 range, and the Bluefin are slightly larger. Date wise, we could see the schools within our range in a few weeks. I’ll be posting the latest as I know it.
Capt. Bryan