Hunting Harbor 8-20-2020

[Harry Hill]

Originally Posted by Tigermidge

I have ben fly fishing for 20 years and 10 Surf fly fishing and about 6 Bay fly fishing.
You can catch any fish with steamers you catch with bait or lures.
ALL the bass are on the bottom 95% of the time.
I have caught 32 inch Halibut on a fly, and Bonita, WSB, Yellowtail, Calico, Spottie's, Sandies, surf perch, corbina, SNGF, Bat Rays, spot fin croacker, yellow finned croacker, and a others as well.
I love it.
I just can't fish 100 ft. down, 50 or 60 is my max..
Mark F.

How do you get that deep? I'm thinking a shooting head in front of braid but how long a cast do you make to get 50 feet down. I see guys trolling flys on leaded line but not casting long distances. I used to fish lakes and rivers but I never got that deep. Of course thing have come a long ways since I used to fly fish so many improvements I'm thinking. I did read about some guys catching spawning ling cod off the rocks near La Jolla.