where do you hoop? bay or lj?
 

Where do most of you prefer to hoop? In lj or SD bay? I know hoopin can be good in both areas. Jusg trying to see where most of you guys prefer

Mission bay jettys and south of the OB pier.

I was wondering about boat traffic at LJ during the first few days of opening week. With so much more structure, is it less busy than other places where the break walls are where many people are concentrated?

For my first time I'm going to LJ. I figured that more people will be at the bays earlier in the season so less boats to contend with.

Opening day la jolla we didn't see any other boats out. Launched at casa beach as the surf picked up... Landed at the children's pool because we couldn't find the break in the reef on the way in. Managed 4 legals each. Definitely a different ball game at la jolla...in the pitch black.

San diego bay
 

I hooped San Diego Bay, near Zuniga Jetty, very good. But any place in the bay I got my limit in bugs.:lobster:

I could imagine that opening day at zuniga will be a mad house and a not so safe place for a kayak

La Jolla is usually pretty quiet. I hit LJ 99% of the time.

On the opener (Saturday) evenings from the Point to the Bird Rock MLPA,
I saw two sets of hoop nets last year, and maybe one set the year
before. So there should be "plenty of room" to drop a few nets.

From the stories I've heard, the harbor jetties are a madhouse ... but can
be great.

Although I think this year many more guys are still getting their fill of boat
use and fishing time on the offshore fishing bonanza which hasn't
happened like this in quite a few years - hooping likely less popular this year.

While open ocean is very interesting at night, when the fog rolls in and I
can't see the bow of my kayak - I will be HAPPY NOT to be sharing the
water with Container Ships, Aircraft Carriers, and a bunch of speeding
yahoos.

So I hit LJ 99% of the time. Colder water years can be tough. Some years
have been great. The lobster packs move around day to day, seems there
is no one area in which they are concentrated every night.

Bad News: Commercial traps/pressure, drifting grass/kelp, lots of
shorts, eels, and ISOPODS eat thru your bait, you will see big sharks,
its very dark, and, landing in surf.

Good News: Very few seals.


:cheers1: Here's to a good year! Good LUCK!


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Thanks for this very good info. I hopefully will be hitting lj opening weekend if I can get my hoops together

There is great lobster fishing along the entire coast anywhere there is a reef. In the beginning of the season, fish anywhere there is a rocky bottom. As the season goes on, and the legal bugs start to thin out, fish shallow. So shallow that you have to be careful of the waves breaking on top of you. You can not compete and win while fishing where the commercial guys fish, but you can fish where they can not get.

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