Corvina 9/19

Woke up to a gloomy day, fiddled on the internet, had a while to wait before a soccer match I wanted to watch came on. I decided, around 9:30 a.m., to go toss some lures to see if I could pick up some fish due to the weather change. It's recently been sunny, and the water very clear, a tough time to fool fish. But the clouds, and light wind seemed worth trying.

I packed pretty light, filling my pockets with lures, camera, phone, pliers, and wallet, hung my license around my neck, grabbed a combo that had a Spin Bomb already tied on and hit the car.

I'd wanted to go to a spot downtown (literally) where I've had good numbers and variety, but there are airplane races down there this weekend, and my spot is home base for just about everything that goes on down there. So I went to a spot in Mission Bay, where I've caught most of my biggest spotties, and recently hooked and lost a decent halibut.

I got there to light wind, and dark skies. I locked up the car, and headed to the nearest patch of shoreline. The Spin Bomb I had on was the 1-oz version, and I had 12 lb test on. That means I could really let loose, and get the lure out where I needed it, to cover as much area as I could.

Not long after I took my first cast, probably 15 minutes, I tossed a long one, into the wind and made so I could retrieve with the slow incoming tide. Almost as soon as the big lure hit the water I felt a tug, and swung on it. Fish on. I knew it wasn't a spottie, not only because it hit so quickly on a lure near the surface, but alsu because it didn't put up the wiggly fight of a spottie. It was more of a back and forth swinging fight. I saw some flshes of white, and thought maybe Yellow Fin Croaker. But once I got it near enough, I realized I'd gotten a personal double first... 1) a corvina in Mission Bay, 2) on a Spin Bomb.



This little fish was photographed more than Lindsey Lohan lying on a sidewalk. I even sent off cell phone pics, before I returned it to the bay.

After that I got a medium-sized spottie, but didn't feel it was pic-worthy. Then it started to rain, so less than an hour after arrival, I was on my way home... a short, but very rewarding, trip.