Fishing during the MLPA Closures off San Diego - Options

Every year from Jan 1 to March 31 (or any last minute changes by the Marine Life Protection Act) Rock Cod are off limits in San Diego waters. San Diego runs several trips to Mexico waters out of San Diego and Mission Bay where you can keep Rock Cod. Even a few of our popular 1/2 and 3/4 day open party daily trips are running with an added fee of a day Mexican license and any fuel surcharge that MAY be in effect. These Cod (Reds) and Ling's (Cod) are an excellent food run. There's also overnight to 1.5 day trips running out of H&M Landing and Seaforth Sportfishng on Misson Bay.

For the daily local 1/2 day open party fleet fishing San Diego waters minutes from the landings the Sandbass is a popular (and very fun for fishing plastics) and abundant target for a quit few hours out on the water. In the mix can be Sculpin, Whitefish and Calico Bass - all excellent eating. The "sandies" can get relatively enormous upwards of 8 lbs. Year round San Diego hosts some excellent fishing opportunites and the 70's avg sunny weather year round and flat seas most days makes it a great getaway and place to start for any experience level fisherman.

I don't work for any of the landings but have fished here countless day a year since age 5. My goal is to get others as hooked on the sport as I and keep the sport alive. With closures, bad economy, high gas prices and a recent landing closure, the livelihood of generations of local fisherman is being threatened and we ned your support to keep this great sport we all love alive and available to all (including our ocean) for genrations to come.

I run a Sportfish San Diego, a one stop resource supporting the open party and private charter fleet. All the links and information is there. Thanks a lot for reading this.

Rob Mailly
SportfishSanDiego.com