Author: Bill Schaefer

Rumors of ghosts roaming the back of San Diego Bay have been told for years amongst the regular fishermen who frequent its shallow southern areas. The bonefish, grey ghost of the flats, have been harvested there since the 1950s and 1960s. Only caught in local commercial fishermen’s nets back then, they were ignored as an awful tasting and worthless fish for market. Fishermen over the years would catch one or two a year through the 1970s and maybe a few more in the 1980s and 1990s. But, in the 2000s, guides like myself and regular bay fishermen saw the numbers…