Mission Bay, Nov 05

[Harry Hill]

Met Amish Ed and his friend Steve at 05:30 to hit the bay, first time there for me. It was cool out but not terrible. When I left Yucaipa at 03:30 there was ice on the horses water. Lots of spotties, mostly small but a few in the 13" range and two over 14". I started out fishing a 3" white fluke on a scrounger head, when that quit working I switched to a smaller fluke and picked up a lot of 10" spots. Then I started trolling a small crawdad diving plug and the big spots liked it. I was fishing light tackle and I had one fish on that I couldn't get off the bottom, it eventually took me into the eel grass and got loose from the plug. Still a great day, ended up down to my t-shirt and shorts and it was still warm.Thanks to Ed and Steve for letting me tag along.