The fishing along the San Diego coast was a bit disappointing. Lee Lynch and I fished at Mission Beach and Torrey Pines Beach on Tuesday, April 11, and at the beach at the end of 11th Street in Del Mar and the Del Mar Dog Beach on Wednesday, April 12. We neither saw a fish nor hooked a fish. Usually, you can at last see fish silhouetted in the waves but we didn’t even see that!

Discouraged, the next day, Thursday, April 13, we headed out to Coronado and at the foot of the bridge there is a park named Coronado Tidelands Park where you can park for free and gain easy access to the bay. We pumped up our float tubes and kicked out into the relatively calm waters of San Diego Bay. We caught many Spotted Bay Bass in the span of about 3 hours. You know you’ve had a pretty good session when you can’t remember how many fish you caught. None of these fish were all that big, but at that point we didn’t care. As we began to kick our way in, I hooked into something that seemed to pull really hard, but with no movement. I thought I might be snagged on something, but I was gaining line back if I pulled really hard. It took me at least a half an hour to haul in a large kite someone had lost. I pulled it out of the water at the beach and started walking back to the truck when I saw a San Diego City maintenance worker. I showed him the kite, told him the story, and offered him the kite. He was really excited because we said he was going to give it to his grandson the next weekend.

You just never know what’s going to happen when you go fishing!