Sea temps at 77 degrees in La Jolla

[Ken Jones]

Are we going to see an influx of southern species? More typically it happens offshore but maybe a few exotics at the piers?

 

[josh]

I hope so. I'm going to hit Balboa early Wednesday morning. Seems to be a good spot for exotics when the water starts getting warm. Maybe some Bonito at least?

 

[Ken Jones]

The San Diego piers are the ones who are most likely to see some action soon. I wouldn't be surprised if Crystal starts kicking out some yellowtail.

 

[Snookie]

This morning I heard that Newport was 78 degrees yesterday. A friend on Balboa caught 3 big bonitos, lost one and the two he had weighed about 3 pounds. Those are decent bonito. We only got some small halibut and one medium shovel nose guitarfish. Saw quite a few yellowfin croaker caught on mussels but they were small. Nothing unusual with the warm water,YET!

Snookie

 

[josh]

Hope things turn up! Been here since 6:30, so far seems slow up and down the pier

 

[Brock Norris]

Yes warm water years bring us lots of interesting fish and i enjoy the exotics but warm water is brutal on our kelp beds and i love our kelp beds as thin as there getting in so calif

 

[josh]

It was brutal today. Swells were pretty big and everything was dead. Fished from 630AM to about 1PM, live sand crabs, frozen squid, frozen anchovies, nada. Saw nothing but a few smelt caught anywhere on the pier. I'll be back on Monday, hopefully things shape up a bit better then.

 

[Ken Jones]

Brock is right about the kelp beds, we see tremendous loss of the kelp during these warm water conditions so it's always a balancing act of short term and long term expectations.

 

[Angler67]

Yeah Wed was DEAD off the end, lots of tiny smelt but nothing chasing it but cormorants. Tried splasher, croc and jig/feather in all directions for several hours, not any interest, not even from the tiny barracuda or needle fish that were around the week before.

 

[Ken Jones]

That's not what we were hoping to hear.