Bait Barge- San Diego Bay

[Mr. NiceGuy]

Originally Posted by LEEZO

The hali's have been hanging out around the coronado bridge as well.

In that area it's also worth exploring Tidelands Park area, the area south of the bridge where the main channel intersects the channel to Glorietta harbor, and also along the channel all the way down to J Street Marina. I haven't been there recently, but that's been a fruitful area for me in the past.

Going that direction I think I would shift to lighter gear and smaller bait because of the more shallow and calm environment. I don't know, but I think a 3-way with a heavy weight and 40# leader I might use out by Zuniga point or in the ocean would be counter-productive in that part of the bay.

I switched to fresh dead squid on the north side of the bridge once and caught a 4' angel shark. Poor thing came up like a big piece of wet carpet and slid back down the same way. He didn't seem to care much, but I still felt bad about hooking him and dragging him up to the surface. Corvina are abundant around there.