Crawdad pattern coming soon

It might not end up looking like this, but the colors will be similar.

November winner

Chad from the Chubasco II is the winner for November, he caught this chunky copper rockfish with the 3" manchovy pattern swimgrub.

From now on, the monthly photo contest will be for bay/lagoon caught fish only. I will still give out occassional prize baits for photos sent in from ocean trips and stuff, not for every single photo but for the ones that catch my attention. They just wont count for the monthly contest. I will have occasional seperate contests that pertain to freshwater and kelp bed fishing from time to time. Keep them photos coming!

A great weekend of bassin!

Both bays have put out plenty of fish this last week, with Friday and Saturday being the best sessions.

Harbor Island short sessions in the mornings followed by superb MB minus tide bass fishing in the early evenings.

Harbor Island numbers for the week:

4 sessions = 42 spotted bay bass, 4 halibut, 11 mackeral, 18 lizardfish. All fish were caught on 3 patterns at HI, leopard frog, keylime, and a baby bass pattern I have been working on forever.

Mission Bay numbers for Friday and Saturday:

2 sessions = 28 spotted bay bass, all caught on the baby bass pattern except for 2 that were caught with the ghost shrimp pattern. If I include all the hook ups that were lost right up front, the number would have easily been in the 50's. I lost a ton of fish....

The average size of the bass were between 9"-12" with a couple up to 14". There was absolutely no wind during any of the sessions, the water wasnt the cleanest but these huge tides always bring in a lot of junk. The fish didnt mind :)

It was nice running into several of you guys while out fishing, I hope the fishing was as good for you as it was for me.

Bait bargain: 2 weeks only

Package 1) Buy 4 dozen 3" swimgrubs, get 1 dozen 3" swimgrubs free.

Package 2) Buy 7 dozen 3" swimgrubs, get 2 dozen 3" swimgrubs, and a 3-pack of 1/4oz shad heads free.

Package 3) Make a custom 3" swimgrub order and recieve 1 dozen extra custom 3" swimgrubs.

Package 4) Buy (3) 4-packs or (3)8-packs of 5" calikillers or 5" slim slugs and get 1 extra pack of baits free.

Package 5) Spend $100 in any combination of baits and/or jigheads and receive $30 worth of additional baits and/or jigheads.

These packaged deals are only good from December 1st through December 14th. If you have any questions about anything just email me at tclures@hotmail.com.

A quick report

I was able to fish a couple hours on Saturday at Harbor Island, and I had one of the better sessions of the year. I only wish I could have stayed out longer, left them biting... I ended up with 19 spotties, 3 mackeral, 3 lizardfish, and 2 halibut. I lost about 6 others. I never moved more than 25 feet to either side of me..... It was just that good. Water was pretty clean and there was very little current. A little windy but very managable.

So this morning I went out on Bill Hokstad's boat for an MB session, and needless to say all the fish were sleeping, all but a few... 4 anglers, 9 fish total for 5 hours of fishing. Conditions werent so bad since rain was in the forecast, we got light drizzle only once while we were out. The wind did pick up after 10am, that didnt help anything. MB has just been terrible for me this year with the exception of the month of January. Even though Mb is my favorite of the two bays, SD Bay is much more productive right now.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Piechart now updated weekly :)

I want to thank everyone who supports T&C Lures, and escpescially the ones who send me in their fish counts. Because of the consistency of the reports I get I am able to update the piechart, and I will be updating it weekly. You can view the piechart in the "color" section of this site. It will be at the bottom of the page, just click the image to enlarge it.

October winner

The winner for the October photo contest is "carpkiller"(not sure of his real name). He caught this 19"-20" shortfin corvina while using the mackeral pattern swimgrub. I have only had a handful of pictures sent into me so please send in whatever pics you take of the fish you catch while using T&C Lures. Even if the fish are small, you never know.... Plus the more feedback I get from everyone the more frequent I can update the piechart.

Haloween special!

3" haloween pattern swimgrubs on special starting October 29 through October 31st.

$4 - dozen
$2 - half dozen

Get some!

Razor Clam pattern getting the job done

All of the fishing reports that have been emailed to me in the last 2 weeks have mentioned the razor clam pattern in it. It just might overtake the current #2 pattern which is the black widow. Here are a couple of cool underwater photos of some nice spotties caught with the razor clam over the weekend in San Diego Bay.

Thanks for your support!

I want to thank everyone who showed up today for the Bassin for Brest Cancer II fishing contest :)

It was a great turn out today, and there were quite a few fish caught today, not bad for not so ideal conditions. I wish I would have been able to run around and snap some photos, I left that up to my son and step daughter to do. Needless to say I dont have many usable photos lol. It would be great if everyone who took pictures could email them to me, I would really appreciate it.

Things got off to a great start with some fish being caught right away, much better than last years contest. The fishing wasnt wide open by any means, but there were fish being caught from beginning to end.

44 people signed up for the contest, out of those, 32 showed up plus we had 8 people show up on the stand by list participate. So we ended up with 40 participants which is great!

The fish counts look like this:

6 halibut(2 legals, a 24" landed successfully, and an estimated 30"+ that never made it to shore)

19 spotted bay bay( 16" being the biggest)

1 calico bass

14 mackeral

29 lizardfish

The winners for the fishing part of the contest are:

Brian Johansen - 24" halibut

Jordon Ong - biggest bass - 16" spotted bay bass

Jordon Ong - most lizardfish(5)

Ryan Sasena - most bass(5)

The grand prize was originally going to be 2 dozen custom baits and some jigheads, but thanks to a generous raffle donation from Len (a.k.a. Skrilla), we were able to have a custom wrapped bass rod as our top raffle prize. The winners for those two prizes were Becky Nava, she won the custom bait package, and Jarrett Rosenthal won the custom rod :) Congratulations to all the winners!

Next years BBC3 contest is going to be a lot bigger. The entire structure of the event will be a little different also, but there will be sponsors donating some nice prizes, and we are hoping to have a bbq as well. Even though its a year away, I am excited to know there are more people and companies wanting to donate to this great cause.

Thanks again everyone, today all of you were winners. Dont forget to email me your photos :)