Fishing in San Diego

[greyhoundfan]

Winter fishing is tough here in San Diego from the beach. It's been pretty choppy. You will need to get a fishing license if you plan to fish on the beach, but you do not need one if you fish from the piers..Except for Crystal Pier..I think.

Fresh water lakes you can hit are Lake Poway, Lake Dixon (2 20lb plus bass) have been pulled out of this lake. These are public lakes so you need license and maybe lake permit to fish. Check out SDfish.com for more info on the local fishing scene. Good fishing reports that'll help you out.

 

[JardiniBoy]

Winter fishing is tough here in San Diego from the beach. It's been pretty choppy. You will need to get a fishing license if you plan to fish on the beach, but you do not need one if you fish from the piers..Except for Crystal Pier..I think.

Fresh water lakes you can hit are Lake Poway, Lake Dixon (2 20lb plus bass) have been pulled out of this lake. These are public lakes so you need license and maybe lake permit to fish. Check out SDfish.com for more info on the local fishing scene. Good fishing reports that'll help you out.

Thanks bro ... that's some good info!

I'm interested in the piers you mentioned that don't require a license ... also because I'll probably only have a short rod to use. Does anyone have specifics on these?

 

[greyhoundfan]

There's a site for everything..

http://www.pierfishing.com/

website for all California Pierfishing. Great site with info. They ocasionally post monthly reports on what is the hot catch along with directions on how to get to each pier by region. In the San Diego area you can search on Oceanside Pier, Imperial Beach Pier, Ocean Beach Pier. There's probably more but that's all I can think of. Buy some blood worms and hang out right above the wave break point, you might catch a yellowfin croaker, corbina, or spotfin croaker.. all good fighters.

 

[JardiniBoy]

There's a site for everything..

http://www.pierfishing.com/

website for all California Pierfishing. Great site with info. They ocasionally post monthly reports on what is the hot catch along with directions on how to get to each pier by region. In the San Diego area you can search on Oceanside Pier, Imperial Beach Pier, Ocean Beach Pier. There's probably more but that's all I can think of. Buy some blood worms and hang out right above the wave break point, you might catch a yellowfin croaker, corbina, or spotfin croaker.. all good fighters.

Wow ... spot on bro! Thanks

 

[ewurm]

Winter fishing is tough here in San Diego from the beach. It's been pretty choppy. You will need to get a fishing license if you plan to fish on the beach, but you do not need one if you fish from the piers..Except for Crystal Pier..I think.

Fresh water lakes you can hit are Lake Poway, Lake Dixon (2 20lb plus bass) have been pulled out of this lake. These are public lakes so you need license and maybe lake permit to fish. Check out SDfish.com for more info on the local fishing scene. Good fishing reports that'll help you out.

I have heard Dixon has some great monster LMB!

 

[fishfool]

The lake's stock rainbow trout at this time of the year, and the water in the lakes are cold so the bass are deep and dont eat as much. The ocean is cold also,so the boats target bottom fish "rock cod" we have boats that go out for 1/2 day 3/4 day full day all the way to 3 week trips, you can buy a lic. for a day ,week,or the whole year. If you fish off one of the boats they have all the tackle for rent. Have a good time out here.

 

[fugupuff]

fishing in cali isn't that great really. the midwest you'll see a lot more action. during the summer, if you take a party boat, either 3/4 day or full day, for sandbass is a guaranteed catch, most fish in the 2-4 pound range, sometimes giant squids bite, which are fun, they run in the 10 pound range and run like a salmon.

yeah we have monster large mouth, but so does florida and many of the southern states, and they're not all that cool looking in my opinion. in the midwest you can catch some huge blue catfish, channel cats, flatheads, muskies, pikes, large mouth, small mouth, walleye, sturgeon, trouts, salmons, the list goes on and on, bowfins, drums!

so back to california...yeah, not too much unless you have a boat or take a boat, or pay to fish out of a man made lake

or you can take over night trips to mexico during tuna season, which if you're lucky and skilled, catch tunas from 5 pounds to 100 pounds on any given day! then sashimi after you catch them!

you're from Taiwan, there are a lot of nice fish off the ocean in Taiwan, just have to find somewhere that's not polluted! triggers, puffers, groupers, jacks, all kinds of cool looking fish!

 

[adamstv]

OKOK what month are you gonna be there. And im sorry bro but a saltwater/freshwater fishing liscence will cost you a lot more since you arent a cali resident. We are talking hundreds of dollars.
I recommend saltwater since deep sea fishing is my passion. Im very familiar with the charter boats and which ones have the best crew and what fish to catch if you wanna eat it since I am a deck hand at daveys locker sportfishing and Newport landing.

You can bass fish almost anywhere but you can only catch huge yellowtail(hamachi) and yellowfin tuna in certain places. Not to mention hundreds of true saltwater bass and rockfish.

p.s. dont pier fish, its not that exciting and all those species they list on the site are almost unheard of.

 

[ancientfishfan]

How close are the Monster Bass lakes to San Diego? If you can make the trip, you might catch a world record on Lake Castaic.

Not that close. A 3 plus hour drive North. Castaic is in the northern part of los angeles county which is a couple hour drive from SD. I'm lucky and only live about 30 minutes away. Problem is I'm a trout guy when it comes to freshwater. Never had much luck with the bass even at Castaic.

Never fished freshwater in SD. Go to the Sierras to get my freshwater fix. Have done some spear fishing while free diving in the kelp a couple hundred yards from shore in SD. It was the wrong time of year for the good stuff like monster white sea bass or yellow tail. I can tell you there are a ton of decent sized (for that fish anyway) calico bass. Saw some small 'cudas too. Calico taste good!

 

[ancientfishfan]

OKOK what month are you gonna be there. And im sorry bro but a saltwater/freshwater fishing liscence will cost you a lot more since you arent a cali resident. We are talking hundreds of dollars.
I recommend saltwater since deep sea fishing is my passion. Im very familiar with the charter boats and which ones have the best crew and what fish to catch if you wanna eat it since I am a deck hand at daveys locker sportfishing and Newport landing.

You can bass fish almost anywhere but you can only catch huge yellowtail(hamachi) and yellowfin tuna in certain places. Not to mention hundreds of true saltwater bass and rockfish.

p.s. dont pier fish, its not that exciting and all those species they list on the site are almost unheard of.

I'd be talking to this guy!