2/15 J st report - Kayak Fishing Adventures on Big Water’s Edge

taggermike · 02-17-2011, 11:49 AM

Deffinately the power plants in So cal kill more fish, larval fish that is, in a day than all other methods kill in a decade. And the larvae of every other creature in the area as well. driss, if that 15% water use per day number is correct than that plant is killing the vast majority of all marine life that spawns in the south bay.

I know 2 different people that have caught jack creval in the south bay. Also when I worked for the Hubbs institute's white seabass program we had a gill net sampling team that went all over So Cal looking for our tagged WSB. Of course with gill nets they also caught other things as well. On one of there South SD Bay samples they caught 2 scalloped hammerhead sharks at 5 1/2 and 6 feet long. I saw these sharks with my own eyes.
Mike

onetriphudson · 02-17-2011, 12:20 PM

I mentioned previously about the time that I spent down at G and J st fishing the piers as a kid. Every now and then, one of us would have a rod ripped right off the pier and it wouldn't even hit the water for a good 15 or 20 feet. My buddy and I would look at each other like the loch-ness monster just went by. We started loosening the drag, and we'd get to keep our fishing poles but the second you set the hook you would get busted off or spooled. I've seen it happen a half-dozen times and we always assumed it was a big shark or ray. I suppose you could take a 4/0 out there with 50#, but then you're really getting looks from people. Heck it's only 15 ft at the deepest spot around there. It's cool stuff though when you are a kid, really gets the imagination excited about fishing bigger water.

yaknewb · 02-17-2011, 12:56 PM

Iv been spooled on ob pier with the drag buttoned down with 30 pound line i really wish i knew what i hooked those times.

kobra · 02-19-2011, 06:56 PM

Those big spotfin are always a cool catch. I have'nt heard of anyone catching a jack cravelle in a long time. The last one I caught was over 20 years ago. A friend caught one a while back but that was when the power plant was still in operation. Without the warm water discharge, I kinda doubt that they are still back there. Hope I'm wrong though. Those things pulled really hard.

Piranha · 02-19-2011, 10:00 PM

I've been in love with spotfin croakers ever since I got my monster spotfin way back in 2004.

http://kayakfishing.com/images/Recor...n_corker_m.jpg

great fighter, good eating! Jerry/Piranha

dniss · 02-20-2011, 06:31 AM

Maybe I'll lay off the tubing for a while, if there's hammies like that in there. Definitely piques my interest, and I plan to do a lot of exploring in the newly opened salt pond at the south end, near where I've hooked the majority of sharks and rays I've caught in south bay. I've caught a few healthy juvenile (up to 22") WSB down there also.

yaknewb · 02-20-2011, 09:06 AM

Is that pond open to fish now?

02-19-2011, 10:00 PM	#5
Piranha Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Alhambra.CA Posts: 35	I've been in love with spotfin croakers ever since I got my monster spotfin way back in 2004. http://kayakfishing.com/images/Recor...n_corker_m.jpg great fighter, good eating! Jerry/Piranha __________________ Oh Lord, Thy sea is so great and my boat is so small!

02-20-2011, 06:31 AM	#6
dniss Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 77	Hammerheads Maybe I'll lay off the tubing for a while, if there's hammies like that in there. Definitely piques my interest, and I plan to do a lot of exploring in the newly opened salt pond at the south end, near where I've hooked the majority of sharks and rays I've caught in south bay. I've caught a few healthy juvenile (up to 22") WSB down there also.

02-17-2011, 11:49 AM	#1
taggermike Senior Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Chula Vista Posts: 1,589	Deffinately the power plants in So cal kill more fish, larval fish that is, in a day than all other methods kill in a decade. And the larvae of every other creature in the area as well. driss, if that 15% water use per day number is correct than that plant is killing the vast majority of all marine life that spawns in the south bay. I know 2 different people that have caught jack creval in the south bay. Also when I worked for the Hubbs institute's white seabass program we had a gill net sampling team that went all over So Cal looking for our tagged WSB. Of course with gill nets they also caught other things as well. On one of there South SD Bay samples they caught 2 scalloped hammerhead sharks at 5 1/2 and 6 feet long. I saw these sharks with my own eyes. Mike

02-17-2011, 12:20 PM	#2
onetriphudson Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Carlsbad Posts: 143	I mentioned previously about the time that I spent down at G and J st fishing the piers as a kid. Every now and then, one of us would have a rod ripped right off the pier and it wouldn't even hit the water for a good 15 or 20 feet. My buddy and I would look at each other like the loch-ness monster just went by. We started loosening the drag, and we'd get to keep our fishing poles but the second you set the hook you would get busted off or spooled. I've seen it happen a half-dozen times and we always assumed it was a big shark or ray. I suppose you could take a 4/0 out there with 50#, but then you're really getting looks from people. Heck it's only 15 ft at the deepest spot around there. It's cool stuff though when you are a kid, really gets the imagination excited about fishing bigger water.

02-17-2011, 12:56 PM	#3
yaknewb Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 143	Iv been spooled on ob pier with the drag buttoned down with 30 pound line i really wish i knew what i hooked those times.

02-19-2011, 06:56 PM	#4
kobra Senior Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: oceanside Posts: 880	Those big spotfin are always a cool catch. I have'nt heard of anyone catching a jack cravelle in a long time. The last one I caught was over 20 years ago. A friend caught one a while back but that was when the power plant was still in operation. Without the warm water discharge, I kinda doubt that they are still back there. Hope I'm wrong though. Those things pulled really hard.

02-20-2011, 09:06 AM	#7
yaknewb Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 143	Is that pond open to fish now?