Hunting Harbor 8-20-2020

[Tigermidge]

I have ben fly fishing for 20 years and 10 Surf fly fishing and about 6 Bay fly fishing.
You can catch any fish with steamers you catch with bait or lures.
ALL the bass are on the bottom 95% of the time.
I have caught 32 inch Halibut on a fly, and Bonita, WSB, Yellowtail, Calico, Spottie's, Sandies, surf perch, corbina, SNGF, Bat Rays, spot fin croacker, yellow finned croacker, and a others as well.
I love it.
I just can't fish 100 ft. down, 50 or 60 is my max..
Mark F.

[Harry Hill]

Originally Posted by Tigermidge

I have ben fly fishing for 20 years and 10 Surf fly fishing and about 6 Bay fly fishing.
You can catch any fish with steamers you catch with bait or lures.
ALL the bass are on the bottom 95% of the time.
I have caught 32 inch Halibut on a fly, and Bonita, WSB, Yellowtail, Calico, Spottie's, Sandies, surf perch, corbina, SNGF, Bat Rays, spot fin croacker, yellow finned croacker, and a others as well.
I love it.
I just can't fish 100 ft. down, 50 or 60 is my max..
Mark F.

How do you get that deep? I'm thinking a shooting head in front of braid but how long a cast do you make to get 50 feet down. I see guys trolling flys on leaded line but not casting long distances. I used to fish lakes and rivers but I never got that deep. Of course thing have come a long ways since I used to fly fish so many improvements I'm thinking. I did read about some guys catching spawning ling cod off the rocks near La Jolla.

[Tigermidge]

The Fly line I use is 100 Ft. total length... Heavy sink tip first 30 to 35 ft. intergraded sinking/running line behind that for the rest of it.
I can cast it 50 ft and let it sink for 30 seconds while I kick my hobie in revers, letting out more line.

Mark

If you would like I will send photo of the lines i use.

[Harry Hill]

Originally Posted by Tigermidge

The Fly line I use is 100 Ft. total length... Heavy sink tip first 30 to 35 ft. intergraded sinking/running line behind that for the rest of it.
I can cast it 50 ft and let it sink for 30 seconds while I kick my hobie in revers, letting out more line.

Mark

If you would like I will send photo of the lines i use.

thanks, I know the guys fishing for stripers locally are using flies behind a lead core line to get the depth. I haven't seen the flies but I'm guessing it is something along the line of a thread fin shad. I fished Silverwood Reservoir before the stripers got there but any big streamer with a lot of white would kill the brown trout that were in the lake. Are you standing up when you cast? I don't know if I can still send a streamer 35 yards. The guys I see fishing the bays are fishing a lot shallower than 50 feet but they seem to do pretty good on the spotties.

[daperrin]

Hi Mark, those are some good size Spotties. Do you just troll the fly behind you on the surface usually?

Also wondering, do you feel the fish are equally distributed in the bay or is it better closer to the harbor jetties or the back side of the bay?

Thanks
David