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Started the day by finding only 2 sand crabs, so I went with the old stand by.... Dried, frozen blood worms... I first tried Seal Beach for no bites on the SCs or BWs.. After wasting a couple of hours there, I made a run to Huntington Beach... Good choice... After a few misfires with 2 dinky BSP, I ...

Nice job! Keep it up!

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?