San Diego & SoCal Fishing Forums

Upper Otay has been repeatedly tested for oxygen and it remains super low to zero. No point in putting fish in if they cannot respire. As far as Sutherland, we shocked that lake this spring and there were fish EVERYWHERE...600-700 bass over 12" in 6 hours. I know everyone C&R's just about e...

Bait balls of shad and good amounts of bluegill for as cold as it was. We were done by May when they really start to push shallow.

San V has the best trophy redear and SE strain bluegill potential IMO.

There are Pumpkinseed in Lake Hemet and Big Bear Lake. They do well in higher elevations CDFW is also trying to establish a unique Sacramento Perch population in Lindo Lake following the complete draining of the East Basin and soon to be drained and rehabilitated West Basin. It is critical that ALL ...

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Bigscale Logperch were inadvertently introduced to CA in a shipment of sunfish to ponds on Beale AFB in Yuba County in 1953. The ponds were flooded and the fish were flushed into the Feather River. They have since made their way anywhere water from Northern CA is pumped.

Schooling a fish biologist with wiki links. Bravo Pulled straight from Dill and Cordone (1997), History and status of introduced fishes in California 1871-1996 Fish Bulletin 178, but it could be misinformation...what do I know? I was not contradicting anything you said, read my post again if you th...

Fish off the pay dock with split shot/fly lined FRESH cut sardines on 6-8 lb. to get the abundant yearling stripers. Limit is 10 with no size restriction. The mercury consumption warnings don't really apply to the small ones as they haven't lived long enough to accumulate harmful levels yet. One fis...

Use what you have, but fresh will out catch frozen

Been doing nothing but saltwater/offshore for the the last decade plus after being a strict bass fisherman and I wanna do some Huddleston big fish fishing this winter with my calico gear. Which lakes still get trout stocks? Which lake would I have the best chance at 8 + pounder on a big trout swim ...

There definitely aren't as many 8lb+ bass as there was back in the 70s-90s! San V use to have them..then they stopped stocking trout! Rare to run into one these days Anglers also killed 30-35% of the harvestable bass population annually back then...something else much more influential on bass growt...

Good to see a couple bass on a stringer. Our lakes could use a whole bunch more of that.

Actually most "wild trout" in SoCal streams/creeks/rivers are genetically feral remnants of fish stocked years/decades ago. There are only a couple waters with genetically identifiable southern DPS "steelhead" genetics and they are closed to fishing without any public access.

All of the sporadic water quality tests that CDFW has conducted over the last several years have shown anoxic conditions and extremely high conductivity (salinity amongst other minerals) in the water. No one knows why, but the development in addition to natural conditions could be the reason. I beli...

This podcast/video is a must listen/watch for anglers. Listen to the evidence and decide for yourself.

Here are von Bertalanffy Growth Curves of LMB from Sutherland using data collected in the early 1960's (LaFaunce et al 1964), most of the 1980's (Bottroff 1987) and in 2015 (OEHHA data 2016). The biggest variable from the early 1960's to now is the difference in exploitation (harvest) of LMB and how...

Anglers get to fish out of their own rental boat in a designated section (Pine, Hauser or Main arms) with a CDFW "concierge" boat close by to collect fish for scientific data collections.

I imagine the people who managed these reservoirs when they were built didn’t have the same worldview as the people who manage them now. The people running them now are more concerned with what kind of stick figure is on the bathroom doors at the reservoirs instead of how much water is in them. I f...

I modify the finesse A-rig into a "chandelier rig' putting 4 willow blades on the outside arms with a short wire leader in the middle to extend it back a bit with a 1/16-1/8 oz/3" swimbait trailer. Only one hook to deal with and the same illusion of a small school of fish. The straggler ge...

There will be about 15-20 boats out each day with 4-8 of those SHARE participants. The balance being CDFW staff.