Slow Tide - San Diego Bay Fishing 

I just caught a bat ray 20 ponds 3 foot

Sculpin , good beer bad fish !

Brought home a #9 sand bass out in hermosa on the hobie revo

I'm from I.B. and fish the back bay on a kayak. Great job on showing the reality of fishing a slow day and navigating a busy bay." Go fishing hook that giant "

I have had some great fishing on San Diego Bay. I prefer the back bay from the Coronado Bridge back. Chartreuse 3/4 oz Strike King spinnerbait with willow blades on a slow steady retrieve is deadly. A 4" Berkley Gulp Shrimp on a 1/2 oz red leadhead fished in the deep channels on 10lb test line and a heavy action rod will put some big fish on the boat. Cast out and drift with the tide letting the baitdrag across the bottom. If you fee like you got hung up swing for the fence because it is a fish on. Fishing the eel grass flats with the spinnerbait on 10lb line or grubs on a 1/4-3/8 oz leadhead can be productive. Dropshotting the deep channels by the bridge on 6lb line and a 2" Gulp Shrimp about 18-24" up from a 1oz torpedo sinker can sometimes catch more spotted bay bass than you can count. You never know what you will catch in San Diego Bay. One year in January in a friend's boat we were trolling blue and silver jointed Rebel Spoonbill plugs around the Coronads bridge and ran into the motherload of legal log size barracuda. We caught and released so many fish we left them biting. I came back every day that week In my kayak trolling those jointed Rebel plugs and scored a bunch more of those cuda's. Your video brought back a bunch of great memories. Thanks for that!

I'm a SD resident and fish the bay from my Pro Angler often. The key to killing it in the bay is to start EARLY. Especially on a slow tide with little movement. If you can start at grey light, then that is ideal. These are my recommendations...... If you want a day FULL of having your rod bendo, then launch from Tidelands Park under the Coronado Bridge. Work the pilings, especially between 15 and 19. There are 2 shelves that have been dredged that you will encounter as you run perpendicular to the pilings. One between 15 and 16, and the other between 18 and 19 (which is where the main channel is dredged). Use your Mirage drive and steering rudder to your advantage. I recommend a drop shot configuration. I sometimes use 2 hooks at once on my drop shot. You don't even see baitfish traveling alone. So 2 seems more realistic a presentation to me. Slowly do circles around the pilings. If you're facing the tide, pump your Mirage drive VERY SLOWLY to create forward momentum. Keep it a less than 1 MPH. If you're going with the tide, let the tide do the work. Push in close and toss at the edge of the pilings. The concrete skirt only goes down about 8-10' underwater. Then it's hollow with huge concrete pilings inside the skirt below that point. It's LOADED with QUALITY spotties. If you want attractant to stick to your bait, then straighten out a paperclip and heat up the point with a lighter. It doesn't need to be red hot. Just hot enough to melt cured plastisol. Slowly poke the heated paperclip all over the bait to create tiny, shallow pockets for attractant to embed inside of. Heat the paperclip as necessary. Make a bunch of them all over the bait. They will have ZERO effect on the action. Then rub the bait down with your favorite attractant. The attractant will fill up the little holes and stay in place for a good while before another application is necessary. Those are some of my personal tips. I've had many 50+ fish days by doing this. I've caught multiple species doing this as well. Spotties, Sandbass, Sculpin, Halibut, Barracuda, Bonita, YF Croaker, etc....

Great vids! Everrytime on the water is a lesson to take notes from. Please keep making more vids in the bay as well as the islands/offshore. Warbaits!!!

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Cool video, as always, Thanks

Definitely more bay/deep sea fishing.. subscribed for those videos.. I’ve graduated fro freshwater long ago and tired of large mouth bass

those kayaks look super fun

Good job on video!

looks like a nice day. i moved up North and i miss my Kayak fishing there. Your cameras take excelent pictures and video, 4k ... "keep it fishing"

Another fun episode!!!

Great video, bro

Another awesome video!

Man. I was out yesterday morning on my compass for 3 hrs and didn't even get a bite with squid. I was under the bridge targeting halibut and the only thing I brought out of the water was the trash I picked up. And yeah the tide was on the ebb and was very slow, but that was the time I had to fish. Thanks for the vid.

Dude I have the same Revo x abu Garcia baitcaster reel! I use it here in the sf bay for striper, and have even dropped swimbaits for rockfish and lingcod with it. It performs so well, super happy I got it! And I’m surprised how well it holds up to saltwater as well.

Nice video love it beautiful place and happy holidays god bless you always 🙏🏻🙋🏻‍♀️🎣

Dude I never thought about that aspect, the fact that the bait can slide toward the hook point more easily with scent! That's a solid piece of info bro, thanks. Especially useful when throwing bigger profiles 🤘🏻

Another banger! Great info

Nice sculpin it's been awhile caught one of those 👌

hahah "got em" got me all lol . great vid afran :)

Dope video! Just subscribed!

Love the vids man! Love the products too!! My collection is getting bigger with ur products weekly 😅✌🏽

You rock the outback and pro angler?

When I run out of slugs I toss on a strike king worm cut down to 4inchs. They still hit it.

Early vid love it tho!

Got a bite on the bite! Haha

I fish that bay everyday for 3 years 8 hours a day you will catch 50 times more fish if you use natural colors. Through the bright color plastic away. Got to ask yourself whens the last time have seen a hot pink and hot green fish swimming around in the wild? I'll tell you never. Natural colors are always better. Cool video.

My favorite part about your bass fishing videos is that you talk us through what triggered the bite and what you did to entice the fish. That’s something I really wanna work on. Side note, what extension stick do you use for the underwater clips? I had a basic selfie stick I used in cedros but the saltwater seized it

Like 188 love you videos thanks

Great video Afran! Any word on if you guys will do a holiday special package like last year?

Just got the 1/2 ounce underspin today. Can't wait to try it out. Any suggestions on what to pair it with? I got some swimbaits that I can use with it as well. Thanks in advance.

Sweet video I like that you show all the baits you use. Where can I get the slow pitch jig? Thanks really love your baits keep up the good work 👊🏻

Love that demonstration on the plastics. If you could make a series on how to fish/jig certain plastics with underwater footage! Keep up the great work! You goin to Fred Hall this year in LB?

I'm up bout to do a lil editing... my son woke me up hungary for some cereal

I spotted the Revo Inshore baitcaster generation 4 that shit is sweet pulled me a nice size chunky Angel Shark paired with a Californian inshore series rod from Turner's outdoorsman 20 braid to 20 seagurd blue label. Question what power handles do you put on your Abu Garcia and where do you purchase them boss.

What size is that rod and size line you are using with the slug? Always enjoy the new uploads!

Bite must've been really slow if they weren't even biting the WB jigs on A-Rig. Cool vid nonetheless.

Hey man, when you are tying your leader to the jigpara or another micro jig are you tying directly to the ring that is set in the jig or are you tying your leader onto the split ring?

Do you stay in san Diego,or just come down to fish?

Interested in those slugs for bass. Who makes them?

Gotta talk a bit more about the structure you are fishing since we can't see the sonar.

what's up with sculpins, are they venomous on the spine?

Hot sauce YES SIR. I prefer New Port because when the fishing is like that there is always naked chicks laying out to look at. But the Dam Cops have been stopping me and looking through all my shit lately man.