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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...
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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 ...