La Jolla Calicos this Sunday

[NICKWORN]

Thats all I can really say brother, is head straight towards the point and you will see plenty of boats and cattle boats there fishing the kelps. As far as what to use, bring an arsenal, you never know what they want.

[skrilla]

Stick to 40-70ft depth from LJ reserve all the way to South LJ MLPA. If high tide you can get in tight and fish the rocky shoreline but beware of freak waves.

[east county dirtbag]

I caught a bunch of calicos today. It seemed like that was the only kind of fish biting. I caught 2 while troling for yt with a rapala magnum xrap mackeral color. 2 troling a mackeral color krocodile and caught 5 while drifting throwing a green clear plastic swimbait on a 1/1/2 oz jighead. All were just short of legal. I was in 45-65 fet of water between the condo and the mpa border. The wind and chop were up making casting and positioning somewhat of a struggle. I hooked into something large at one point that may have been a yt but after the initial run the hookset was lost and my line went slack. Lots of pbs, cattle boats and yakkers out today but most were concentrated in the nw corner. I did not see any bendos while near the floatilla

[east county dirtbag]

One more thing. The sea watch out of seaforth was posted up about 100 yards west of boomers beach and i paddled by them on my way in. There were like 10 furbags circling around grabbing everyones chovies and 2 people were hooked up to birds. Why do those dumbass charter captains take their boats in there?

[FullFlavorPike]

Originally Posted by east county dirtbag

Why do those dumbass charter captains take their boats in there?

Because people pay them to...

[east county dirtbag]

Originally Posted by FullFlavorPike

Because people pay them to...

I get that people pay them but that particular spot is not good with the seals and birds... and dismal action.There's a whole ocean there. You could almost cast there from the beach

[taggermike]

I was out Sunday n did pretty well on the calicos. Preface this by saying I very rarely fish calicos, am not too skilled at it, and won't work hard at catching them.
After seeing the big counts on the calis I decided to bring a bait caster n a bag of plastics. I caught a yt on the out side and on the way in headed for the children's pool. (actually off boomers) I don't have a meter but if guess I was in 40' of water.saw some birds and a couple Cali boils. Started casting a 1/2 jig heads and a brown swim bait. Got bit about every cast. Landed maybe a dozen n headed in. I was ran thru the plastics cause the bass were so aggressive they were eating the swim baits out of the hooked fish's mouth. On 4 consecutive casts I landed bass with just the jig head in thier mouths. I'm not s light line guy in LJ cause I've hooked big yt while fishing for calis n small bonito n hot myass handed to me. I was using a 30 lb mono leader over 65 lb braid. Fish bit it fine.

So what it's worth, paddle toward the point until you get outside the reserve. Turn south and work between 20-40'. Like usual keep an eye out for birds. Mike

[Croaker Dave]

Originally Posted by east county dirtbag

One more thing. The sea watch out of seaforth was posted up about 100 yards west of boomers beach and i paddled by them on my way in. There were like 10 furbags circling around grabbing everyones chovies and 2 people were hooked up to birds. Why do those dumbass charter captains take their boats in there?

I give them thanks for distracting the dogs so a few macs lasted me all morning