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Bomb casting set up with long rods. 11-13 feet.

One thing I've been experimenting with is sending four or five ounces, or up to around 100 yards, to vegetated reef sections. I have had success with 2 ounces plus or minus, and it works well in the sand spike on shorter casts, such as to the first ...

HK_Supermarket wrote: Wed Sep 10, 2025 1:55 pm idk anything about this... but I want to see a report when you find out what's out there

It's just an excuse to sit down and read a book. Seriously, you can catch a lot without going to that trouble, maybe even some sheephead or bump up the Sargo count a little bit. I will let you know!

This is also my first Fall. I fished year-round and sporadically when I was a kid/teen, but this is the first time I have been fully engaged in Surf Fishing mentally in San Diego. It's starting to have an effect. Crab beds are shrinking, and they are no longer available at as many tide levels in the ...

I did catch a nice spotfin around 20 inches this morning, and other than that, all perch.

Hi PK, There are still crabs in Del Mar, at least with today's tide. They are thinning out, though. That's what caught it. Also, throughout the summer, I have not caught a spotfin, of 15, or one corbina, of about 25 or so (small to large), on shrimp. Everything else eats the shrimp, or robs it.

Loveland Update,

Loveland Matters, especially since the typical season for draining it approaches.


Today, I was notified by the CalEPA Deputy Secretary for Water-Related Environmental Protection that she and the Water Boards' Chief Counsel (attorney) will plan to meet with me in Sacramento on ...

Loveland Update,

Loveland Matters, especially since the typical season for draining it approaches.


Today, I was notified by the CalEPA Secretary for Water-Related Environmental Protection that she and the Water Boards' Chief Counsel (attorney) will plan to meet with me in Sacramento on November ...

This morning was as calm in mid-Del Mar as I have seen it since June. Not much grass in the water until high tide, but I was leaving then anyway. Kept thinking I should throw the LC, but didn't. I found enough crabs to fish for a few hours, supplemented with a little market shrimp and another test ...

In a half hour at guard tower 36 in Carlsbad I caught a surf perch and my first corbina on a brown paddle tail grub. This was a receding low tide. I used a hybrid Carolina/Texas rig with the Carolina rig setup and the hook Texas style. It made it through the large quantity of vegetation ...

Well I came out to Carlsbad thinking it’s time to accept some skunks die to switching to artificials . I found a good list on king hole but tons of seaweed . Nothing else looked promising. Definitely with Bob74 in mind i t-rigged a little grub on the c-rig and got some bumps them 1 small perch ...

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O.k. It's done, took the first of probably several skunks at Del Mar—a few bumps on the grub, which I could fish open hook no problem. A few bumps on a 2" fake blood worm. Surf was 4' high/high-slack tide churned up in the middle of the day.

jwacky wrote: Tue Oct 28, 2025 9:01 pm Needs to be a dislike button skunk sessions!

It was good medicine! I am going to enjoy these skunks! It's the only path to a keeper halibut, at least at the beaches I love.

Sounds like some good outdoor time .
The picture conveys the sense of a beautiful day .