Congratulations to Adam Hinkle of La Mesa, who caught a 87-pound Blue Catfish with 4lb test line in Lower Otay Lake. Adam was fishing for bass when the big blue hit, in which apparently took him over an hour to land.
At 87lbs, this fish exceeded the breaking strenght of the 4lb rated test line by over 20 times. It also shatters the current International Game Fish Association line-class world record for that test line. Adam could have applied that record, but chose not to because he said that the fish was caught accidentally.
Fishing: Lake Poway
Decided to fish Lake Poway, but got up kinda late so I was a little mad at myself leaving the house at 6:00 am. Usually, I'll have the line on the water by now.
Got to Lake Poway at about 6:30 am. As I was pulling up I saw a car outside the gate with the gate still close. As I pull up to the gate, I saw the sign saying the lake opens at 7:00 am, so I wasn't mad at myself anymore but mad that the lake opens so late. Had no choice though but wait, so sat around talking to other anglers waiting to be let in.
Finally, the gate opened at 7:00 am and got to start fishing. Weather was a liitle cool, drizzling and a little windy. As is walk up to the lake, saw that the water level was up, the highest I've ever seen it. So walk all the way to Boulder Bay and fished there pretty much the whole time. Managed to catch a couple of small bass on dropshot rig using Roboworm MMII on a 7-ft med-light rod, shimano spinnning reel w/6lb flouro.
It was starting to drizzle again, I was wet, cold & hungry so I decided to call it the day around noon. Fishing was tough, with the water level so high there was really not much shore access, would have been great if I was in a boat. But as I always say, any day of fishing is a great day!
Rough Day On The Water!
Fished the kelp beds on Saturday. Got on the water at about 6:30 am and line on the water about 7:15 am. As soon as we got on Mission Bay channel we could already see that water conditions were going to be pretty rough, so we kinda prepared ourselves for some beating.
We started out at La Jolla kepl beds slow trolling irons & swimbaits in hopes of catching some yellowtails, but to no luck. So started casting out soft plastic swimbaits & slugs weedless in to the kelp and started hooking up some calicos. Nothing of the size we were looking for though. So after an hour, we decided to hit up our honey hole somewhere in Point Loma.
Took about 20 minutes to get to the honey hole after manuevering through all the kayakers out on the water. My first cast produced a nice sandbass and then my buddy at the same time hook a really nice calico. This went on for a couple of hours. The honey hole really produced for us this time. Ended up catching 3 sand bass and 9 calicos most in the 5-6lb range.
After a few hours of just getting beat up by the rough water condition, we decide to call it the day. It sure was a fun day, I just wish that the water was a little calmer so we could have stayed out longer.
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