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I am new to getting in the surf again. Did fish in this category surf, piers, and jetties a lot as a kid /teenager with bait. Werfless, has taken me out a few times and of course, we always catch something.

Tomorrow My wife is meeting a friend for a birthday lunch in San Juan Capistrano.

So per ...

Wow, cool post ^ Thanks. Friends helped me pick Del Mar...but I'll start scoping out more NC places.

Went for a short evening sesh and the bite was quite good. Seven fish in under an hour.
Gulp sandworms and long casts.

These 2 small corbina ate the same soft shell on consecutive casts. Burnout separates Torrance Beach and Redondo Beach.

maraxus wrote: Mon Mar 18, 2024 10:45 am Very nice sessions, thanks for sharing. Did you keep the eel or let him go?

Thanks! It was indeed fun. This eel is chunky and I gave it to a friend.

No double trouble there... Nice...
Butch

The YFC are here in north county. Caught a few yesterday on the good ole' morf big hammer grub. Love how hard they hit.

Otherwise, the water was chock-full of salad. Took me about a half-mile of walking to find a spot clean enough to fish.

Clear cool day, with little to no wind, and a small swell, So looked good, huh?... The only thing besides the goofy tide, was for some reason the the area inside the far sandbar was churning pretty good, and a pretty fair side current... Almost like wind waves, but no wind... Not un-fishable, but ...

I found 4 nice soft shells this morning and converted all 4 to corbina.

It is amazing how the corbina at my local beaches can tell the difference between hard and soft shell crabs. I use straight 8lb mono, so they don't seem to be line shy. My fishing buddies and I joke that they are "crab snobs ...

Beautiful leopards.

They are pretty fish...
Butch

Conditions were pretty nice so went for an afternoon session on Sunday. Salad was minimal so I tried soft plastics and luckycraft but there were no takers. Switched bait fishing with shrimp and got a short sand bass, a perch and bunch of leopard sharks.

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Yeah, I have to try some new spots myself. My boys love going to Tamarack to play, so I get stuck fishing there, but the swell there is strange - has a weirdly strong, rip-like current that pulls everything out between waves. Not a fan of fishing there much.

I enjoy fishing Grandview/Ponto, but ...

Conditions were pretty nice so went for an afternoon session on Sunday. Salad was minimal so I tried soft plastics and luckycraft but there were no takers. Switched bait fishing with shrimp and got a short sand bass, a perch and bunch of leopard sharks.

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Cardiff "should be" good spot given all the reefs, and last time I went I did get cabezon, calico and rock fish, etc. but the size was just lacking... Even the spotfin croaker I caught there was kinda small. Not sure what's the deal with that spot.

Cardiff "should be" good spot given all the reefs, and last time I went I did get cabezon, calico and rock fish, etc. but the size was just lacking... Even the spotfin croaker I caught there was kinda small. Not sure what's the deal with that spot.


I think it's simply getting too much fishing ...

I’m staying at the cottages on Crystal Pier for a week.. It’s a family trip with the Son and Grandkids joining us for the 3 Memorial Day weekend.. My wife and I came down yesterday and will be leaving next Wednesday… I’ll be surf fishing AMs 5-7 or 8… And maybe other times if the kids want to ...

Went out a couple times after work (Sunday and Wednesday) so get some time in the water in Coronado and not a bad session considering water conditions. Found a few open spots and small to average size fish.

Anyone seen good size sand crabs out yet?

Thanks guys for the sand crab report. I'll using my lucky craft since that seems to be working for me at the moment. Went out again yesterday in the low tide and caught a couple more hali's with one being just 1/4short of a keeper. Anyone know if you're able to eat fish during red tide?

I don't typically start surf fishing until the school year is over, but my dad has been doing pretty well the past few weeks on the halibut and he convinced me to join him on Sunday morning. We were on the sand right as the negative low bottomed out, and found a couple of good looking troughs that ...