Bluefin landed on 1.5-day

March 15, 2021

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Screen Shot 2021-03-15 at 3.38.04 PM — CORONADO ISLANDS YELLOWTAIL kicked off on the yo-yo iron aboard the boat San Diego, with 47 of the forktails landed by 34 anglers Sunday.

Yo-yo yellows kick off at Coronados

BY MERIT MCCREA

SAN DIEGO — The American Angler out of Point Loma Sportfish- ing fished a 1.5-day over the weekend and went looking for their first big bluefin of 2021 — and they got it! They found good sign in cool waters and stopped on two good spots of fish. One stuck with the boat and angler Joe Ferris hooked and landed the 125 pounder.

The famous long ranger has a series of the shorter trips already scheduled and will schedule more as the season gets going.

Capt. Ryan Bostian said the go-to setup was a 40-pound stick and either the full-sized or Jr.-sized jigs were effective but the full-sized versions had the edge on Sunday.

Those anglers padded their catch with 80 rockfish and 20 whitefish. The stops came as sonar fish, so anglers should be ready for the deep drop with the iron.

Local fishing aboard the half-day boats centered up solidly on the deeper reefs, garnering an- glers mostly rockfish, some sculpin, an occasional sheephead, lingcod or even sand bass.

Stand-out scores included rockfish limits for 11 anglers Fri- day aboard the Premier, plus 3 sculpin and a sand bass.