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Tides...goodness, certainly one of the most important elements in surf fishing. Here are a few things I've observed over the years: When fishing on beaches with lots of kelp/eel grass I like to fish from an hour after low tide, up to high tide. This keeps most of the kelp/grass on the sand and not ...

Thanks for the report Joe. All too familiar. Not sure you're aware of the MLPA boundary If you decide to go north of the pier. The south end of the no fish/take zone is at Diamond St. the big staircase down to the beach. Stay south of it. Seen LG's & DFW folks escort unaware anglers out of there ...

I fished the surf south of Crystal pier about 8:30-10:00 this morning. Sand crabs are plentiful under the pier, with roe and some soft shells. Grass was minimal. Water felt colder. Bite was very slow, only a few bite surgically stealing roe. So I switched to the smallest crabs with roe I could find ...

Small 4 to 10mm orange bead directly above and inline with the hook to color any bait you use . Just a thought

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.

I’ve really been blurring the line between Mission and Pacific Beach lately so I’ll call the weekend “both”. I think the LG towers are all pulled in for whatever reason so no marker to go off but I was approximately where T-21 would be and south. There was an early high tide both days so I tried ...

This late season corbina ate a crab right at the edge of the sandy brown water. Good news is they are still around.

Took the day off to create a four-day weekend, so I headed to the shore for some fishing.

Mussels were the bait du jour.

I got there close to 6:30 and fished until about 9:00. Relatively calm morning while the tide was out, but as the clouds burned off and the tide started to come in, the wind ...

Happy Veterans Day to all who have served, and special recognition to the families of those who served as well.

Today was pretty much a copy & paste of yesterday at MB. Relatively calm morning, and between 6:00 - 9:00 I was catching a steady stream of perch. Smaller than yesterday, but more spread ...

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.

6:30 to 9:30 . Cold but doable. Caught 14 today. All different sizes. No grass or seaweed. Very clean water again. Sandworm.

Nothing out of the ordinary to report from Mission Beach this morning. Pretty clean water, little bit of a current as the morning high tide came in, very minor grass/kelp that mostly came off the line as it hit it.

6:30-9:00ish yielded 6 or so perch. Slower day than previous outings but the perch ...

The mornings are starting to get a little chilly!! Hard to feel the bait as I set up the early casts 🥶

Shorter hours for me today since the bite died earlier than yesterday, and I used that experience to just shut things down instead of holding out hope for any last nibbles. First cast was in the ...

Man today was weird...
Hit incoming for the first time in a month. Low tide and day break coincided wave power at a complete zero rating. Man it felt all lined up.

On the water by 630 absolutely nothing til about 830 then 3 on back to back casts. Then nothing. Went for a late breakfast at Ki's ...

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 ...

Hello all,

Had this entire week off, and decided to try "Jwacky's" suggestion for using mussel meat.

I bought a pack of frozen mussels from H-Mart.... What a WEEK!

I caught so many high quality fish! Slab perch, Giant smelt, and several BIG corbina.

I had 2 days with over 20 fish.

For the sake ...

Hardly my own recommendation, I’m only taking and passing along advice of everyone who’s been so kind as to provide it to me. Glad it worked for you!! Where were you fishing?

I’ve gotten better/faster with tying the elastic with each session at the beach! My “trick” is to just let it hang from the ...

Well, It wasn't a "Black Friday... But looked to be a good Friday...
Butch

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 ...

It seems nice that these big low tides are lining up with the afternoons.
I may test one or two... hoping for low winds; waves are reasonable.
Any thoughts?