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Spent 2 hours at Dana Point Jetty, tried lures, squid, shrimp and lugeworms and didn't get a bite. The last half hour pulled out the old trusty night crawlers and was instantly bit. Ended up catching 10 white perch the last 30 minutes

Finally got back out to Mission Beach after last week’s king tides. Fished the outgoing tide from about 6:30 - 9:00. The water wasn’t super clean, with seaweed scattered on the shore and in the water. Thankfully, it wasn’t floating in huge clumps so I was able to avoid it pretty easily.

As for the ...

First time out in the surf in about four years and it was productive one. Fished from 7 to 9am, conditions were calm. Some salad in the water but stuck it out with the Carolina rig. Was able to get four good ones all about 9 inches and a baby halibut. A ton of bites and all in all,

I got out one last time before this storm rolls through but was already seeing some of the effects at Mission Beach this morning between 6:30-9:00.

Wind and strong currents to the north made fishing feel like a bit more of a chore than I’d like for it to be, but I did still manage to reel in four ...

Not sure if “peak” is the right term, but my son and I hit up Mission Beach to try fishing the extreme low tide of this weekends King tides.

We tripped over some really large clams that were getting exposed in the water, but the fishing was about as I’d normally expect; handful of perch of various ...

I had a small window this morning before some soccer games so I headed back to the beach. Still cold, obviously, but it was an otherwise beautiful sunny morning. Calm surf, calm currents, clean waters, and an active perch bite. Tiny coquina clams were popping up everywhere under my feet, which ...

Another beautiful, calm morning at Mission Beach. High tide, low surf, relatively calm currents. Other than a couple early clumps of grass, similar to yesterday, the water was clean.

Little to no easily observable structure makes things a little tricky but patience pays off. Took a while for the ...

I made it to the beach for an hour. Found 5 sand crabs and converted 2 of them to on back-to-back casts.

I wasn't gonna post this, because of the louse fishing, but I do enjoy reading your reports, so, fair is fair... Met up with my buddy of 65 years at Bolsa Chica for some much needed beach time at about 6AM... Tide was falling like a rock, but the weather and conditions were great..I used freeze ...