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This beach can be tough to fish with any kind of swell, and yesterday was enough to make it a little difficult. The water seemed cooler and there was some salad in it to add too the work.. Anyway it was fun fishing with my Grandson again, and he out fished me with 4- BSP and a 15” corbina… I beat ...

Landed an 18" spotfin this past weekend. Put up a great fight. Also landed a few corbina that put up some nice fights as well. BSPs aplenty within 20 yds, while the croakers are biting further out.

No perch biters this morning at SMB, just nibblers. Very slow for first hour then got 2 solid hits. Lost one but got this one up on the sand . . 18".
Bite want dead after 7:30, swell & wind came up from SW.

Croaker on gulp worms and probably 6 perch as well. Nothing too great size wise but fun nonetheless.

I was targeting corbina with translucent soft shells when this hungry guy showed up.

Assume you knew not a hali peeling your line ! Great catch & congrats !


Thanks yes a novelty and very memorable event! It was almost dark, fish was pulling pretty hard at times. I was thinking a big calico. But I had no idea what it was until it was laying on the wet sand. Even then, it took me ...

Fished south of Crystal Pier Tuesday and Wednesday morning with sand crabs. Water temp around 67, light grass with the occasional big chunk of kelp. Water seemed a little sandy to me. Bite was slow but fish were bigger than what I normally catch here. Caught 3 BSP Tuesday. Caught 2 YFC and 4 BSP ...

Caught off the surf at Redondo, using the Chika Chika pattern Lucky Craft. 20lb braid on a Penn Fierce III, 9'0 Okuma Hawaiian Custom.
I cast into a noticeable rip current and was quickly bit by this 26"er. I kept casting into the school in hopes of landing another. Hooked up twice more, but both ...

I fished the surf south of Crystal Pier from about 8-10am this morning. Water still cold, 64ish. Wave action down some from the weekend. Grass was light, not a problem. Sand crabs getting scarce except under pier, and sand crabs are generally getting smaller in size. Current pulled south to north so ...

I haven't been out for a while and decided to take a 30 min hole shot at RAT today. I found 3 soft shells and converted all 3

Nice sandies… WTG…
Butch

Sand bass salad Way to go in tough conditions.

Howdy folks. I haven't been fishing much, but have a a few recent opportunities to visit the beach. The water is colder, but I still saw some beans in the surf. My wife got a new job at Scripps. Today they gave her a tour of the pier, and she sent me a picture of this huge school.

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Grandson called and asked if I'd like to fish with him and his girlfriend.. Sure... So we made plans to fish Alamitos Peninsula with some lug worms... We tried the bay side 1st for no bites.. Very clear water, but no sign of bait or anything else... Then we jumped over to the ocean side and it was ...

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The grunion were there! Not huge #'s, but plenty to have some fun and see an amazing display of nature! Pretty big wave power, the big washups seemed to have the most fish coming in. Put about a dozen in a bucket just to observe, used a few for live bait later, but they kept getting ...

Just an update, got out to Mission 2 days ago. Water conditions real good, sand crabs showed up finally. Lot of small perch, a few larger 8-10 models. Only slabs caught that I was aware of were by-catches from guys tossing LC's for hali's. Water 60+ and with crabs now showing, won't be long for ...

Got out for an early AM sesh Friday. Good size swell & outer breaks but very fishable inside. Water clean & felt about 61. SC beds not visible but scraped up half doz small ones. Got hit first 3 out of 4 casts, perch were biting non stop from 5:45 - 7. About half way into it crab beds appeared. got ...

Spent a few hours at Mission Beach again today, and showed up to calm waters and a late arriving “high” tide. Sand crabs were plentiful but the bite was pretty slow. Reeled in a few times to see my crabs picked over without even feeling bites some of the time!

Regardless, skunk avoided. Caught a ...

After work session from 4pm-7pm.The little bit of rain just before helped clear the beach of people quite nicely. Caught 5 yellowfin croaker and 2 surf perch. Almost all my bites were past the breakers barely anything in close. Tried for halibut on a double dropshot with no luck but doubled up on ...

Yep, fun morning. Trying to share a couple pics, maybe, I think.