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Friday 7-11 am. A good amount of walking in the first hour and a half to try to find a break in probably 3 miles of shallow/flat sand bottom due to accumulated sand from previous months. Finally, I came across a small cut next to a shallow sandbar with a good amount of N current from the short ...

First time Surf fishing. I was fishing in the morning for 7:00 am to 9:00 am. Caught 5 Perch. A lot of fish nibbling on my bait. Maybe I will try a small hook next time. No seaweed that was a good thing.

Midnightpass wrote: Sun Oct 26, 2025 8:55 am About the same time frame, conditions, and results for me in Bolsa Chica with freeze/dried blood worms... I should have done a report, but was too lazy...
BUtch

Nice fishing with ya, even if it was 90 miles apart

I couldn’t stay away. I got breakfast at Mission while the highest morning tired receded a bit (pic below of the high mark, halfway up the beach to the bike path!!) and made my way to the water.

All things considered, the water was relatively calm. The current was a little strong but not as strong ...

Try finding some bigger mussel and use the lip. You can feed it up the hook, like a worm, and it will both stay on the hook well and look like a worm as you retreive it slowly toward shore. I've also found that if you crush mussel you can use the meat with a bit of shell attached...as this is how ...

6:00 am till 8:00 am. Caught 7 Perch. The bite was crazy right From the start. Two of the fish Were caught as soon as the bait hit the water ,on the drop. It did not get that bad. It was kind of cool watching the tide come out that. I would walk out and cast as the water is receding and then I will ...

I fished Carlsbad near lifeguard tower 36 around high tide. There was one other angler there. He was using what looked like a camo sandworm. I didn't see him catch anything. I was using a 1" red with blue flake curly tail grub and caught one BSP. I had another pull the hook off because I neglected ...

Went this morning from 6 to 8. From 6 to about 7:15 used 2 different LC and then a 4” paddle tail. Nothing on either LC, only 1 hit on the paddle tail that felt kinda small. Finished up with gulps. Used camo and then red. Caught 1 small perch, missed a couple of more.

6:30 to 8:30. Mission Beach had some good size Perch today. Caught 9. Those were the largest perch I have ever caught. Around 12 inches. No seaweed or grass. Water was clean. Pelicans were diving on schools of fish about 100 yards from shore.

Fished Mission Beach from 6:30-10:00. Beautiful morning out there, and I was almost disappointed because I’d wanted to try some new rain gear I’d gotten :lol:

Instead, it was all sunshine and literal rainbows.

The current was a little strong at times but certainly manageable/navigable. Once I ...

Beautiful morning out at Mission Beach today; fished the outgoing tide from 6:30 until about 8:30, very calm waters with very little north/south current, and very clean (bordering on clear by the end of my session!). Very light crowds… everyone must’ve been sleeping off the damage they did on ...

Fished north Mission Beach this morning with the (rapidly) outgoing tide from 6:30 to almost 9:00. It went out QUICK!

Caught the usual perch of varying sizes, 8-10 total, all of them on mussels. Mostly on the smaller side, but a few in the 9”-12” range. It’s fun to get a “big” bite on them, but ...

6:30 to 9:30. Caught 11 perch. All good size. They were hitting the bait hard today. All around 11 to 13 inches. I cast out my bait and noticed I had a wind knot. So as I was untangling it all I could think about was my leader getting tangled. Then a Perch took my bait. So I was on tangling my line ...

Fished the outgoing tide at Mission Beach from 6:30 until about 9:00am. Really calm surf, but also a little breezy. Overcast, cool weather. The water was very clean, though, which is always nice!

The bite was slower than Saturday. I caught a couple on my first two casts within 15 minutes of ...

Bendo wrote: Sun Dec 14, 2025 5:53 pm Those Small Corbina are called Cigars. If you seen one, you know why.

I guess this would be called a cigarette then?... That was my 13 yr old Grandsons hand...
Butch

Redemption! I’ve had a lot of raised eyebrows upon disseminating this information. A few angry comments about sharing a secret bait, over the years. Thanks! I think it’s as good as Powerbait for Trout…Great for Fishing Bluegill with the Kids because the “foot” is tough.

Nice looking walleye! I wish they were a bit bigger, I like how they taste! But typically the ones that seem to live on our shores are small, and a quick internet search tells me that even at their biggest, they're still not particularly large.


I once asked the DFG (now DGW) if there was a ...

Headed out today 730-10 fished the incoming to peak. Current was ripping south salad not so bad but lots kelp floaters to dodge.
3 caught small medium and large. This one is are is real close to my so cal PB. 12.75 on a rough measure.

Looks like I was just a bit south of @Jteo this morning at Mission Beach and my experience was similar. Incoming tide, sporadic kelp floaters, and a current that was indeed ripping to the south. I was generally able to avoid the mess in the water other than one minor surgery that needed to be ...

Not the greatest report for Mission Beach this morning from 6:30 until about 9:00. Very cold air temperature, so much that I eagerly anticipated getting my feet in the water after re-baiting to warm back up. Never thought I’d say that with regards to the Pacific Ocean!

Calm surf, mild currents, but ...