Erik Landesfeind, Author at BD Outdoors

Good Spring Fishing Continues For SoCal

It’s been another pretty good week of fishing across Southern California and the big news continues to be the bluefin bite. As has been the case in recent weeks, the bluefin bite has been sporadic with big scores coming late last week, before things slowed …

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3 Top Rockfish Rigs – How To Video

Erik Landesfeind, BD Pro Team member, demonstrates how to rig up three of his favorite rockfish rigs using lures and bait. Erik first demonstrates how he likes to build a rig for lingcod when fishing a larger bait like big mackerel, sanddab, or other large …

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SoCal Inshore & Offshore Action Improves

It’s been another week of good fishing across Southern California. Starting up north, the seabass fishing at the northern Channel Islands was great this week with most boats reporting limits the last few days. Earlier this week they were forecasting lots of wind for that …

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SoCal’s Spring Fishing Continues to Improve

While the weekend’s full moon had a negative impact on some fisheries, overall its been another good week of spring fishing. Better yet, a few recent catches indicate that we might be at the beginning of a more “normal” summer season. I put normal in …

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Good Fishing Weather In SoCal Weekend Forecast

It’s been a mixed bag of weather across Southern California this week. With hot temperatures over the weekend followed by cool overcast and sometimes windy weather the rest of the week, it feels like a cross between winter and June Gloom. Whatever the case, spring …

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Big Bluefin Bite Continues

Well, it’s been another mostly windy week across much of Southern California, but the good news is that the fish are biting nonetheless. This week’s top story continues to be the bluefin tuna bite that’s happening within 1 1/2-day range of San Diego. The boats …

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Spring Fishing Heats Up

Though the wind continues to be a factor up north and on the outside, it’s been another week of improved fishing across Southern California. The bluefin are finally starting to cooperate down south, the yellows are biting at the Coronado Islands, and boats fishing from …

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Good Fishing Across Southern California

It’s amazing what a week of semi decent weather can do for the fishing in Southern California. For the first time in weeks, we were able to string together almost a week’s worth of nice days and the fish responded despite water temps in the …

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Improved Weather in SoCal Weekend Forecast

I wish that I had some great fishing to report on today but this has been one of the windier weeks in one of the windier months we’ve had in a very long time. March tends to be windy in general but this seems like …

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Rockfish Action & Good Sign Offshore SoCal

It’s been yet another week of mostly bad weather and things aren’t looking to promising for next week either. That being said, the weatherman definitely missed last weekend’s forecast by a mile. They were calling for wind up north and outside, with calm weather along …

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Good Fishing Weather For SoCal’s Weekend Forecast

BD's Erik Landesfeind is optimistic about the weather and the fishing that SoCal anglers might expect for the coming weekend. He sums up recent fishing reports and offers his predictions.

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Great Fishing During SoCal Rockfish Opener

Erik Landesfeind sums up the SoCal rockfish season opener. Great fishing was had despite some wind and Erik predicts what the weekend will hold in store for anglers chasing a variety of rockfish.