Anglers Enjoy Great Weather and Fun Fishing Heading into Late February!

SAN DIEGO一 Southern California anglers continue to enjoy a mild winter with the first part of February providing numerous warm, sunny days with pleasant sea conditions. Fishing continues to provide various fun options for anglers to choose what kind of fish to target during a day out on the water.   Along the San Diego County coast, there has been a chance at catching prize yellowtail, white seabass, or halibut along with good mixed bag fishing for calico bass, sand bass, and sculpin. Mexican waters also offer rockfish, reds, and lingcod during the two-month rockfish/groundfish closure in the U.S. Good news, is that the rockfish/groundfish closure in U.S. waters will soon be coming to an end on March 1.   Weekends have seen sport boats on 1.5-day and 2.5-day trips running down to the Mexican coast to fish the Punta Colnett area. They have found very good mixed bag fishing for reds, rockfish, lingcod, and occasional yellowtail or bonito. Fish counts from the most recent trips start with Tribute out of Seaforth Sportfishing with 31 anglers on a 1.5-day trip who caught 133 reds, 71 rockfish, 86 whitefish, and 20 lingcod. Fisherman’s Landing had Liberty out on a 1.5 day trip with 35 anglers...