Friday, January 13, 2012

You Need to Get Up to Get Downtown

TIDE | San Diego : :  5.1 high at 11:13am and  0.0 low @ 5:52pm | SD Big Bay Temperature 58°
Moon Phase : :  Full Moon on the wane | Fuel : : 2.796 gallons @ $4.05 a gallon = $11.35
Retrieval Speed : :    crawl       |     slow    |     medium     |   fast
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YOU NEED TO GET UP TO GET DOWN. Woke up at 5am to get on the water early before the Harbor Police and Navy leave their slips. Some of the structure downtown is super good to fish with big bass holding strong along the pilings. I try to move around a lot so that the Pier Workers don't call the cops on me. I pulled out eight bass from downtown all nice size then I moved south towards Coronado and fished the ell grass flats.

My teaser fly combination with the 3" Bleeding Olive Herring swimbait has scored me another double header this week.  I also got a few bass just on the top fly. Downtown along the pilings the hybrid fly/grub that I just made was the hot ticket today. It has a ton of flash and good movement with a fat Kalin Curly tail; the bass were all over it.

4 Calico Bass | 10 Spotted Bass {all catch photo and release}

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Monday, January 9, 2012

My Witness is the Empty Sky

TIDE | San Diego : :  6.6 high at 8:32am and -1.1 low @ 3:35pm | SD Big Bay Sea Temp. 59°
Moon Phase : :  Full Moon on the wane 
Retrieval Speed : :    crawl       |     slow    |     medium     |   fast
As the freezing moon slowly loosens its' grip on the night the suns warm glow illuminates everything in her path. Mundane objects like channel markers shed their dull existence just for a brief moment in time. This is the "magic hour" when night becomes day and slumbering fish become active. I caught six of the eight bass this morning from 6am to 7:30am. I had great conditions on the water today, perfect drifts and winds.

Over thanksgiving break my dad showed me how to make some epoxy teaser flies. We made them to match perfectly to my go to bass swimbaits. My first two fish I caught on the top teaser fly and my third fish was a double header. Its a different feeling that's hard to describe when you tie your own fly and catch fish on it.

The last few years I have tried to design my life to avoid the lull of domesticity and to escape the drudgery of everyday life by being on the water as much as humanly possible.
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