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Updated October 10, 2025

U.S. OFFSHORE

Tanner and Cortes banks — It’s unclear if the bite fizzled on its own or the weather conditions in the past few days out there fizzled it for the fleet. Nevertheless, these banks are getting a break.

Inner pelagic waters — The latest offshore action is nearly close enough to be called inner pelagic, but not quite. It’s about 30 miles off Point Loma, so close enough for the passenger fleet, but maybe not the trailer-boat fleet.

Outer pelagic waters — There are still a wide range of places with a few fish to be found, but most recently the most active of them was just west of San Diego, within overnight range. The mix holds a few yellowfin, some yellowtail but mostly bluefin, 30- to 60-pound grade. The larger body of yellowfin that had been south of the Point about 90 miles was observed headed southward, out of reasonable range of the 1.5- to 2.5-day runs late last week. The new batch holds promise for the fall offshore bite.

MEX TERRITORIAL<12mi

(Mex license, passport and FMM)

Coronado Islands region, 3/4- full-day range — Boats fishing here turned to the bottom biters to fill in as the game fish action slowed to a crawl.

Southern coastal 1.5- 2.5-day range — Really not much to report with the 1.5- to 2.5-day boats fishing offshore and the long range boats straight-lining through this zone.

MEX PELAGIC>12mi

(Mex license only)

Open waters to full-day range — We’ll see. At press time it didn’t appear that the full-day boats had dared to run west, but that latest tuna zone is right on the edge of full-day range, just in a daring direction.

Open waters 1.5- to 3.5-day range — At press time the  best opportunity was west, straddling the line between U.S. and Mexican waters. But the best offshore fishing opportunities switch almost daily and the fleet could shift back south just as quickly as it shifted north back into U.S. waters after focusing pretty far south the week prior, which followed a 2-week focus on the outer banks. Currently the word for the south area is scattered yellowfin and bluefin, including some big ones, plus hordes of smaller yellowtail on kelps.

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