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Got back from work and headed out at 4am to embarcadero to catch some mackerel. Only 2 people there when I showed up, bait in water boiling from school of baby baracudas chasing them around some decent size mixed in couldn't get them to bite only chase. Caught 7 mackerel on mackerel for bait on...

Hit the pier in the AM, 6am was a bit late for the high tide, got around 5 mackerel. Came back in afternoon from maybe 4-7 and landed another 8 mackerel fairly slow. Using mackerel for bait, on a bobber rig with about 6ft of leader egg weight and hook to sink it as the drift is very fast.

https://youtube.com/shorts/JnP40g4Yw04?feature=share https://youtube.com/shorts/iM6LitFhabc?feature=share https://youtube.com/shorts/24PImb4bDOc?feature=share Tensions were high 🤣, without photos or videos no one will believe me ;)

No real date on this report as it’s many days of fishing. Crazy days, golf cart stolen because they left the gate open for us fisherman, last time they did that… young kids messing around ruined it for others. birds crashing, no crazy bait in water, smelt in variety of sizes but no big schools...

Also an update, dont want to make another post. Intel is that grunion showed up to coronado pier last night. Cheers

I’m also fishing today on the bay, 6 small round rays, 1 medium batray, 1 large batray 40-50lb, 1 bonefish( first for me). ghost shrimp and mackerel for bait. Windy cold rain spots

Stopped by the pier after the rain to try and catch some mackerel. Ideally was planning to use my ghost shrimp but wind was too strong. Threw a sabiki and first cast instant bite into 3 more then it slowed. Set up another rod and sabiki tangled with 3 macks and that was it. Not a bad day of...

The one I have is from anglers choice for 100$, the original hoop ring is too heavy so I swapped for a lighter one. At the lb fred hall there was nets at turners for really cheap but I didn;t want to haul with me. I also swapped out the rope 3 way for 100lb mono crimped to create less...

That is neat, I never seen anyone use an actual pulley on the net. I also found out that the cheapest bread you could buy is white bread from food4less, walmart is ok but you want clearance bread that is about to expire. At food4less they cost about 1.40 cents each bag and when on clearance just...

Always welcome, I always loved this site when I first started fishing so I will be posting more as long as I am not working. Will post more tips and stuff also for those curious but not enough to ask/shy. Tight lines

Some videos of the fun in the sky, ike jime the thresher can see the nerves if you look closely

Tons of birds on the water, will have to look them up by name later. Smelt action was on, 4-6 inch smelt on sabiki rig, small smelt all over moving, shiner perch,walleye being caught by the gate. I made a caltip(call instead) of over limits but none came. Later I hooked into a thresher, decent...

They were from the king tides in december the local commercial lobster fishermen didn't remove his traps in time or didn't care and thats how they ended up there. There was also a yellow weather buoy that washed to the front of the back of the pier but has been removed since maybe 3 weeks ago by...

Yesterday went to the pier looking to catch something, bait was scarce as the wind was low until it went 22mph so I called it a day. When walking up I noted to take photos of the current buoys stuck on the pilings near the surf zone and here are the photos. There are a lot of traps stuck under...

Went back last night, 2 medium rays, 6 small bat rays, 1 shovelnose med size, 1 small halibut Thanks! ALso an update on imperial beach pier The weather buoy( yellow one) that was way far away is now infront of the end of the pier. Commercial lobster traps are all over the place and scattered...

Fished the bay for a variety of species, overall day 8+ missed runs(small critters, 1 pulled hook on large ray, 1 legal halibut, 3 batrays(1 huge), 1 butterfly ray, 1 baby leopard All released except the halibut, went to tacos. Pier fishing has been slow in imperial beach so I have been...

Started the day off as usual with another 14 hour grind catching baby smelt and nothing else. Had a moray eel from last night from someone else and decided to soak that all day. 1st run took off and spit, 2nd one hooked. Here is the photos/videos, I did not measure it but it goes 8/ almost 9...

Fish was released, very small wound as it wasn’t a target species and I have no net. Tried to give it the smallest wound possible, it swam off fine. 5 planks long I will try to measure it today. That gaff shot is the only one near its tail

Caught this on the bottom, biggest one I ever seen