Monthly Archives: January 2017

Thursday, went fishing with my bud's Tim and Ben. We Fished SD Bay to prefish for the upcoming tournament. After a handful of bass and a few short halibut the weather was to nice to not go check out the local structure spots along our coast. What a good choice that was. The bite was on for good size calicos and sand bass. After around 80 bass in a few hours the wind came up so we went back to the Bay for a few more bass and a 25 inch halibut. Friday, hit SD Bay again this time with my girl and team mate for Saturdays tournament Jojo. The wind was up and the tides were strong so fishing was tough. We fished only a few hours and ended up with a handful of bass and a 24 inch halibut. Saturday, we fished the Open Bay Bass Tournament. This is the biggest bay only tournament in SoCal. We targeted the sand bass and ended up with 10 legal size sand bass and 3 legal size spotted bay bass. You can only weigh in your top 3 bass which were all sand bass for us. The weight was 6.80 for our 3 fish which was good enough for 2nd place!. All our fish in the bay were on the 3/8 & 1/4 oz Hookup Baits jigs in all colors and outside the bay the 5/8 oz. In all colors. Pictures from the Report See More Pictures & Comment [...]

Friday went out looking for local yellowtail in the am. No luck, we then hit structure spots for around 40 mixed bass. Then fished San Diego Bay for a couple hours and caught around 20 spotted bay bass. 5/8 & 1oz Hookup Baits jigs in all colors for the inshore bass and the 3/8 oz Hookup Baits jigs in chovy and red crab for the bay. Saturday fished the Salt Water Bass Series tournament on San Diego Bay. The tournament was for spotted bay bass only and each team can weigh in 5 bass of 14 inches or over. We ended up taking second place. Just onces out of first. We ended up catching 11 bass over 14 inches and around 70 bass total and 4 halibut one of them going 24 inches. 3/8 & 1/4 Hookup Baits jigs in all colors worked well. Pictures from the Report See More Pictures & Comment on Facebook   #hookupbaits #dontblinkonthesink #nolivebaitneeded #ownerhooks #freedomboats

Fishing report for the first 2 weeks of 2017. Wednesday before New Years fished local SD structure with the owner of Freedom Boats, Dan, his Father and Tony. We had good mixed bass fishing and we caught around 50 bass. Then that afternoon fished with a buddy and we got around 40 mixed bass. 5/8, 1 & 1.5 oz Hookup Baits jigs in all colors worked. New Year's weekend Jojo and I traveled to Pyramid Lake, NV. We fished 2.5 days and ended up with 17 cutthroat trout total with the average being 3 to 5 lb. Caught my personal best the last day of the year a 10.5 lber on the Hookup Baits 1/16 Black Gold! Other colors used those days of fishing were the 1/16 Glow Green and Brown Gold Hookup Baits jigs. On the way home we stopped by Topaz Lake for and hour of fishing and I got 3 nice rainbows on 1/32 Black Gold. The following Tuesday I fished with a fellow Freedom Boat member and his friends. We were catching bass about a mile out from Mission bay when I hookup on a 32 lb yellowtail. It took a 5/8 Black Gold Hookup Bait on the drop. We then slow trolled the 1 oz. Hookup Baits jigs and hooked 2 more boating one of them that went 28 lbs. These 2 hookups came on a Chovy and Sardine Green colors. We also caught some bass and rockfish. Thursday Tim and I hit Lake Wolford [...]