Mission bay is on fire....8-5-12

Hit mission bay this morning at grey light. tide was bottomed out at like a 0. tide was turning and starting to come in. started throwing the 1/2 oz. dirty war swimjig with a med willow leaf attached. slow rolling it through the grass was the ticket. The bass were on the chew from the start. They have moved into shallow water as well as the deeper water. It was a bite or fish every third cast or so. I had 7 fish within the first half hour. My mission was to get a big hali, I knew they were out there, since I had a giant hitch hike on a lizard fish the other day. So I moved out to some hali areas to see if I couldn't find one. It didn't take long and I had a nice hali on the war blade. didnt have a good measuring tape but taped at just 22. tried to get a good pic but shook loose during the pic. I think I call it paddy rappahed. anyway kept on finding the bass, so switched up to a drop shot with a fluke to see if I could find some. Nope more bass then the lizzys. I pinned a lizzy on the rig and drifted the area. Got a good pick up, and let it run a bit to eat the bait, but when I set the hook it pulled the bait/hook. Guess what I could find another lizzy to safe my life. lol. So I tied on a 5" swim bait that was the closest color to a lizzy. started to blast it as I was leaving when I got slammed, set the hook one good pull and bust off the 15lb flouro leader... tied my last one on and gave it another go. got two good bites and missed fish. just as I was leaving I gave an area a work over when whamm. fish on. good drag runs hard pulls. boom nice wsb came up. looked close to legal so I netted it. came up just short a few inches. but a great fight on the bass gear......legs were getting tired and wind was up so i headed in. picked up a few more sbb on the swimmy and bolted....Great morning out there, the fish are chewing, Now the question. hit the green bass pig pen. or head back down to the bay........HHHMMMMM

The lizzard that got hit the other day....
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Hali on the war blade

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Thing tried to escape his pic op.

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average chunk bass....

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They were full of clams....

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Then hard hit, and a great fight...

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great day out there..A bit too windy for the yaks...but the tube was perfect easy to keep in the zone.....

Awesome report n thnx for the early morning Fish porn!

Yeah boy! Sweet report bro! Thanks for sharing.

Nice catch and sweet WSB

nice catches! and nice WSB!

Awesome post an pics! I gotta gey out there soon!

nice WSB and hally thanks for the fish porn

nice, really need to get down there...
do they have any campgrounds down in that area near the bay?

Yeah they do. Campland by the bay is right on mb. I dont know of any others off hand. But there are alwsys folks in motorhomes camping in the lots...dont know how they get away with it.

Wow,nice report and pics. I used to
love to go to Mission Bay,only I was
always chasing the two-legged fishies
back then.LOL It was the early 80s.
Is there still an old wooden roller
coaster down there or did it get torn down?

Wtg!

nice work

nice fish wtg

Wow wtg!!!!
Nice varieties there
Thnx for the report

Great report !!

I got to get down their
Nice report

blues4bill wrote:Wow,nice report and pics. I used to
love to go to Mission Bay,only I was
always chasing the two-legged fishies
back then.LOL It was the early 80s.
Is there still an old wooden roller
coaster down there or did it get torn down?

Its still there. They restored a while back. My kids rode it a few weeks ago. Funny my grandma ( who is 99 trs old) tells us stories from the old days of drunk sailors standing up in it and falling off getting killed or wrecked..not too much safety back them.

Nice report, nice fish.

faster u fool wrote:Yeah they do. Campland by the bay is right on mb. I dont know of any others off hand. But there are alwsys folks in motorhomes camping in the lots...dont know how they get away with it.

do they have tent sites?

That i dont know..

Wow Awesome Day Need to get down there someday
Thanks for sharing

seems like a good day! i gotta hit this spot up one day.