South SD Bay 8/12 - Kayak Fishing Adventures on Big Water’s Edge

taggermike · 08-14-2013, 08:14 AM

La Jolla is always an experience with big fish a possibility every trip, but the close to home stuff is fun too. And with out the crowd and parking issues. I grew up in Chula Vista and have been fishing SD Bay since I was a kid. Over 40 years now, crap I'm getting old. I've caught enough spotties in that time that I rarely even target them any more. Other fish like halibut, corvina, and bonefish are the targets now. I've seen 2 scalloped hammer heads come out of the deep So Bay and a buddy has caught 2 jack craval down there. So ya never know. The whole area at the south end of the bay is all closed USFW reserve land. So osprey, brant, tern colonies, and a bunch of other birds are around. I've seen peregrine falcons chasing shore birds there. Add in the sea turtles and you have a unique habitat in so cal. In the winter there are often huge schools of little bay anchovies from Jst over to the Cays with bird working all over them. It's kinda strange to see spotties and yellowfin croaker boiling. Corvina, halibut, and bonito, when they're around, get in on the action. I don't eat the fish from down there but this dead of winter top water/shallow water fishing is a fun break from our usual winter bottom fishing. Ok, enough of sounding like the Chula Vista chamber of commerce. Mike

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08-14-2013, 08:14 AM	#4
taggermike Senior Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Chula Vista Posts: 1,589	La Jolla is always an experience with big fish a possibility every trip, but the close to home stuff is fun too. And with out the crowd and parking issues. I grew up in Chula Vista and have been fishing SD Bay since I was a kid. Over 40 years now, crap I'm getting old. I've caught enough spotties in that time that I rarely even target them any more. Other fish like halibut, corvina, and bonefish are the targets now. I've seen 2 scalloped hammer heads come out of the deep So Bay and a buddy has caught 2 jack craval down there. So ya never know. The whole area at the south end of the bay is all closed USFW reserve land. So osprey, brant, tern colonies, and a bunch of other birds are around. I've seen peregrine falcons chasing shore birds there. Add in the sea turtles and you have a unique habitat in so cal. In the winter there are often huge schools of little bay anchovies from Jst over to the Cays with bird working all over them. It's kinda strange to see spotties and yellowfin croaker boiling. Corvina, halibut, and bonito, when they're around, get in on the action. I don't eat the fish from down there but this dead of winter top water/shallow water fishing is a fun break from our usual winter bottom fishing. Ok, enough of sounding like the Chula Vista chamber of commerce. Mike