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So I butterflied out a dorado to cook for my family's early labor day party. It's not a true zarrandeado since I didn't do it over hot coals but 45 min on the smoker and a few on the grill for some color does the trick.

Looks great!

For the last few years, if I'm on a full day or longer, I have a setup with me that's minimum 50-60 pounds. Rollin out tonite on thr Old Glory overnight with 2 40 pound setups, a 60 and an 80. Tight lines and following seas!

Epic trip. El capitian Josh hunted them down....We pulled em in...

Howdy. I wasn't gonna write this up but a fellow sdfish member inspired me to do so. I did a turn around trip so two in a row. The first trip went as follows... Arrived in the zone early enough to get a 2 hour night bite which was super surprising to me, fished hard but nothing was cooperating. Grey ...

Very steady beach fishing in late June. Tallied 30+ calicos, 8 short white seabass to about 22", and 2 legal halibut - all gently released except the halibut. Saw some relative beginners get a legal halibut yesterday from the rocks throwing a swimbait. :D

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Fished North beach Coronado, at sunset, for 2 Hours on an incoming tide. Birds diving everywhere! pelicans,seagulls and terns bait in the water appeared to be anchovies but cold have been grunion considering the coming full moon. Thick salad inside the surfline made it impossible to fish although ...

Good size YFC. Way to go. How were the conditions, i.e., kelp & grass in the water? PB & south has been a mess past 3 days, unfishable


It was actually not bad at all, fairly clean with some grass here and there. I started out casting from the shore to about 60-70 feet out with zero success ...

Guess we're all a little late to the party and you're probably on your way up as I type this. There's 50 miles of coast line between TP and DP, so I'd just find whatever is most convenient for you.

Halibut season is warming up and grunion are expected this weekend, so your LC might be the best bet ...

If you really care about avoiding gut hooking, I suggest that you use inline (non-offset) circle hooks. 95% of time your catch will be lip-hooked, like in the picture below.
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Hook set would be different with circles and will take some time to get use to. I use them ...

Butch, aka @Midnightpass is an expert at curing bloodworms.


Mike I’m not much of an expert on anything… But I do save and cure my blood worms.. I believe they usually work about as well as fresh.. I lay them on a piece of newspaper, salt them with non-iodized salt and let them dry overnight in ...

Squidco has Bait. Splurge on the Ghost Shrimp, you only live once, you might as well spend it out your rod bent.

The one advantage of salted, dried and frozen blood worms is that they are tough.. I’ve had one worm last a session, with catching multiple fish.. Also, they are no trouble to use.. No stink, no mess, no special packaging.. They will sit in your pocket for a week and be as good as the day you pulled ...

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My PB halibut from the surf at just over 27"... I don't really fish these guys as I prefer corbina and SFC but have caught a ton of them as by-catch, but mostly non-legals... Only a couple of legals... You would be surprised how many you can catch with sand crabs ...

On Labor Day sunset, I caught a legal barracuda from the surf, 28 inches, on a t-rigged white fluke in the La Jolla area.

I caught a short one from the sand in June, but this was a big surprise.
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Saw this on channel 8....

Got out for an early AM sesh Friday. Good size swell & outer breaks but very fishable inside. Water clean & felt about 61. SC beds not visible but scraped up half doz small ones. Got hit first 3 out of 4 casts, perch were biting non stop from 5:45 - 7. About half way into it crab beds appeared. got ...

The grass / kelp , (wrack ) is annoying , the San Diego area beach grooming is only from the high tide line up during the months the grunion run and their eggs hatch . If it were not for the preservation of the grooming code , PB and Mission beach would be a desert the grunion are not the only fauna ...

Straight mono, no leader works for me for LC's & the like.

Braid is asking for trouble. It’s all the hype now so to each their own. I never use braid unless I’m frogging or dropping iron deep.