Fishing tomorrow.
 

I have an appointment tomorrow afternoon at the balboa naval hospital and I was thinking I could get dome fishing in in the am I was thinking tidelands, mission bay, or la jolla.

Mission bay it is

Good luck! I see you're out fishing all the time. I'll give you a shout If I ever run into you out there.

Well I picked up my cuda 14 about 5 hours ago and I'm tying to figure out where in the hell to go first. I'm completely new but I would love to get out in the bay ASAP... Any ideas for a new guy like myself? I haven't the slightest clue on where to go...I'm going to participate in the Heros On The Water event on the 27th but I need to get out there and practice first.

The Cuda has landed!

You can meet me tomorrow at mission bay

well, if you are wanting to go out Wednesday, you could certainly hook up with Easyday there at Mission Bay, and have the benefit of some MB experience with you, to show you some good info about MB fishing.

but if you are going to go out to some Bay by yourself soon....
then IMO - for newbs, SD Bay is a much better place to start & learn Bay fishing.

i have fished both SD and Mission Bays for many years.
i ALWAYS catch 2-4 times as many TOTAL fish every outing in SD Bay, compared to Mission Bay.
while i always catch FEWER TOTAL fish in MB, the Spotties are ALWAYS bigger & fatter in MB.

SDB has WAY LESS eel grass, than Mission Bay.
MB has eel grass EVERYWHERE.
SDB has some eel grass, mostly in the shallower areas.
but majority of SDB has weedless sandy bottoms.

that eel grass is a haven for the bigger bass in MB.
but it makes the fishing much more challenging for the angler.

for beginners, i would recommend Shelter Island beach (sand) launch, by the moored sailboats. then just go straight out from launch, and get out in the med to deep channel areas. then just drift with tide/current/wind, using plastics or gulp on lead jig-heads, allowing them to bounce along the bottom during the drift. you can usually just keep drifting and working baits on bottom endlessly in SDB, and you will only occasionally get tangled in eel grass or weeds, and you WILL CATCH SOME FISH.

where as in MB, you can NOT typically just drift baits on bottom endlessly there, because you constantly get weeds & eel grass all over baits, which then has to be reeled in, removed, then re-cast, etc.

hope this helps. good luck with it !!
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