Fishing Report : It’s Still a Party for Albacore Boats

San Diego’s late-season albacore run continued Thursday, with five party boats catching fish of 30 to 35 pounds 50 to 60 miles out of San Diego. The fish were reported being caught within a 25-square-mile area.

Carol Sandner of Point Loma Sportfishing reported each of its five boats had 30 to 50 albacore on board before noon Thursday. The same five boats, carrying 94 fishermen, accounted for 408 albacore Wednesday.

The Times accepts and publishes the catch count as a public service. Any responsibility for accuracy is that of the landing operator.

SAN SIMEON--10 anglers (1 boat): 1 ling cod, 75 red rock cod, 75 bass.

MORRO BAY (Virg’s Landing)--13 anglers (1 boat): 12 ling cod, 70 rock cod, 50 red rock cod, 15 red snapper, 60 bass.

SANTA BARBARA (Sea Landing)--14 anglers (1 boat): 89 calico bass, 17 sand bass, 4 mackerel, 2 rockfish.

VENTURA (Ventura Landing)--17 anglers (1 boat): 65 calico bass, 81 whitefish, 7 rockfish.

OXNARD--113 anglers (3 boats): 490 rock cod, 8 cow cod, 117 rockfish, 1 barracuda, 138 whitefish, 145 bonito, 160 calico bass.

PORT HUENEME--29 anglers (2 boats): 210 rock cod, 116 calico bass, 30 bonito, 32 rockfish, 10 sand bass.

MARINA DEL REY--53 anglers (2 boats): 55 bonito, 1 barracuda, 2 halibut, 17 sand bass, 7 sand dabs, 200 rock cod.

REDONDO--72 anglers (5 boats): 3 yellowtail, 248 bonito, 193 calico bass, 173 rockfish.

SAN PEDRO (Ports O’ Call)--42 anglers (3 boats): 3 bigeye tuna, 29 calico bass, 78 sand bass, 23 whitefish, 165 sand dabs, 200 blue perch, 13 bonito. (22nd St. Landing)--46 anglers (3 boats): 3 yellowtail, 76 calico bass, 26 sand bass, 106 bonito, 336 rock cod.

LONG BEACH (Belmont Pier)--25 anglers (1 boat): 250 rockfish, 20 whitefish, 50 bonito, 235 mackerel. (Queen’s Wharf)--44 anglers (2 boats): 21 yellowtail, 2 barracuda, 90 bonito, 60 calico bass, 540 rockfish, 130 whitefish.

SEAL BEACH--12 anglers (1 boat): 180 rockfish, 60 bonito, 1 sand bass.

NEWPORT (Newport Landing)--13 anglers (2 boats): 25 bonito, 25 calico bass, 33 mackerel. (Davey’s Locker)--75 anglers (6 boats): 6 yellowtail, 66 sand bass, 47 calico bass, 79 rock cod, 500 bonito, 293 blue perch, 235 mackerel, 45 sand dabs, 1 barracuda, 1 blue shark.

DANA WHARF--35 anglers (2 boats): 84 bass, 23 bonito, 6 rockfish, 131 mackerel.

OCEANSIDE--28 anglers (2 boats): 48 bonito, 5 calico bass, 4 sand bass, 11 rockfish, 59 whitefish, 68 mackerel.

SAN DIEGO (H&M; Landing, Fisherman’s, Point Loma)--200 anglers (9 boats): 594 albacore, 8 skipjack tuna, 8 yellowfin tuna, 6 bluefin tuna, 14 bigeye tuna. (Seaforth)--75 anglers (3 boats): 2 yellowtail, 1 barracuda, 131 bonito, 104 calico bass, 4 sand bass, 26 rockfish. -add Freshwater

The water flow in one of California’s blue ribbon wild-trout streams, the East Walker River near Bridgeport, has been reduced to a trickle because of a repair job on the Bridgeport Reservoir dam. Trout have died as a result.

“We’ve had only a minimum flow over the dam spillway for 11 days now, and a lot of fish have been lost,” said Mike O’Brien at Ken’s Sporting Goods in Bridgeport, a fly fishing center. “The rest of the fly fishing season on the river is pretty much shot.”

Harry Pardick, a spokesman for the Walker River Irrigation District in Yerrington, Nev., estimated that work on the dam might be completed by next Monday or Tuesday.

WILLOW BEACH--Good catches of recently stocked rainbow trout from shore near hatchery. Fair to good results for boat fishermen off beach at hatchery or 58-mile marker.

LAKE MEAD--Weather improved. Fair to good striped bass action reported in Hemenway Harbor, Vegas Wash, with anchovies. Stripers chasing surface shad, sunrise to mid-morning. Slow for largemouth bass.

BULLHEAD CITY--Good shore trout fishing on lake with standard baits, or trolling sandy coves. Good catfish reports from Topock Marsh. Stripers slow.

SALTON SEA--Excellent for sargo, tilapia. Croaker fair. Slow for orangemouth corvina. Johnson Street best site for tilapia.

LAKE CACHUMA--Good catfish results in Santa Cruz Bay, with cut mackerel baits. Fair to good for trout, trolling five colors, at west end. Bass slow.

LAKE CASITAS--Light fishing pressure. Bass, catfish good.

LAKE PIRU--Good trout fishing for trollers, five to six colors, with some limits reported. Still-fishing for trout good, north end. Bass improved, two to three fish per rod, at 30-foot depths. Some catfish success, north end.

LAKE SKINNER--Good catfish results for fishermen using mackerel, nightcrawlers, east end. Richard Crawford, Riverside, nine catfish weighing 32-4, largest 13-4. Some bass success on plastic worms, nightcrawlers.

LAKE ISABELLA--Slow. Some success with small largemouth bass at Piney Point, Kissack Cove.

IRVINE LAKE--Catfish best bet, in mid-lake areas between dock, dam. Trout fishing starts Oct. 23.

VAIL LAKE--Bass, catfish good. Chic Hill, Torrance, 10-14 largemouth bass.

LAKE HENSHAW--Slow, light fishing pressure.

BISHOP AREA--Alan Winters, Hermosa Beach, 6-8 brown trout at Pleasant Valley Reservoir. Good results at South, Sabrina lakes. Lower Owens River dropped one foot, but still running high, fast. Some fishermen catching 15- to 16-inch browns with crickets, lures. Slow for fly fishing.

BRIDGEPORT AREA--More on dam project: 2,000 to 3,000 pounds of trout were netted and put in Bridgeport Reservoir before the job started, but estimates of downstream fish killed because of low water run are up to 1,000 pounds. Good fishing all week in Bridgeport Reservoir for fishermen using big trolling lures near surface. Good shore fishing, too. Trollers catching three- to eight-pound browns by hugging shorelines. Good reports from West Walker River by dry fly fishermen. Green Creek beaver ponds productive for some.

Trout Plants

A list of waters scheduled to be planted by the Department of Fish and Game, weather and road conditions permitting, by counties:

LOS ANGELES--Castaic Lake, Castaic Lagoon, Elizabeth Lake.

SAN BERNARDINO--Green Valley Lake, Santa Ana River.

RIVERSIDE--Fulmor Lake, Hemet Lake.

VENTURA--Lake Casitas.

INYO--Baker Creek, Big Pine Creek, Bishop Creek (Middle, South forks), Diaz Lake, Independence Creek, Lake Sabrina, Lone Pine Creek, Lower Owens River (Laws Bridge downstream to Stewart Lane), Pleasant Valley Reservoir, South Lake, Taboose Creek, Tinemeha Creek.