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Pretty amazing just how much energy can be stored in a lure . Always disheartening to hear that dreaded SNAP . Nice Spotfin by the way . WR

Everydog wrote: Thu Jun 19, 2025 8:17 am Sent the lucky craft to San Vicente Island. Unfortunately, it was no longer attached to my rod and reel. I got bumped once before returning to bait fishing. Getting the bugs worked out. Croaker.jpg

Just got around to catching up on the LC posts & saw your fish. Nice spot fin, well done !

https://surffishingsocalsd.com/surf-fishing-report-socal/page/2/ . This is a link to a very good surf fishing site . Nick is a local , well written . There are very good articles about gear in particular that may help with the decision . The fishing articles are very good as far as info goes . He is ...

Ah yes, the reefs. Good for sargo, bass & other species. From or near jettys & rocky structure as well I'm told. You must be fishing TP and/or north. I'm mostly at SD & south, open beaches for the most part. I know I should venture north once in awhile but can't seem to get motivated to do the drive ...

Hadn't been out to PB in almost a month so gave it a look this AM. South of pier half way to LG station; what a mess of junk on the beach and in the water. If didn't get bit in 3-4 minutes, line loaded up with grass/lettuce. Lots of sand crabs though everywhere. One perchie and after half hour ...

Good size spot fin. Seem to be a lot more of them this year in the surf. They love those bigger crabs with roe, corbina too, if the perch don't get the roe first, LOL ! Bummer about the break off, always disheartening. Have you tried ghost shrimp ? Croakers & beans love 'em.

Nice fish
New to area. 1st trip out was this morning.
Fished from about 6:30 - 9
Caught some perch and 1 halibut.
Perch on crabs, probably should of had a few more but was using a size 2
Halibut was caught on LC

Saw/spoke w/ 1 other guy fishing, he caught perch and YFC

Have pic of Hali but don’t ...

I've gotten four of these in three trips and pulled the hook on about the same number. Frustrating. Using bigger-than-average sand crabs, which are a lot of work to find. But there doesn't seem to be an alternative.
Lots of other fish to catch. This morning, I tried the negative tide with a ...

Krocodile is one of my favorites . You can use the single Siwash as supplied . I use a dressed treble that I tie that is almost the same length of the spoon . Just make sure the treble as it came from the factory has the single hook portion pointing to the concave of the spoon . Less snags . 5/8 oz ...

Ah the Krocodile…..Baja staple. I like them when the surf is mellow, if the surf or currents are ripping, they still work but you can’t get that consistent sweet spot kick. I like trebles on the small ones either a feather or blank. Chrome with the chrome foil is my favorite. I’ll like j hooks on ...

Ah the Krocodile…..Baja staple. I like them when the surf is mellow, if the surf or currents are ripping, they still work but you can’t get that consistent sweet spot kick. I like trebles on the small ones either a feather or blank. Chrome with the chrome foil is my favorite. I’ll like j hooks on ...

Ah the Krocodile…..Baja staple. I like them when the surf is mellow, if the surf or currents are ripping, they still work but you can’t get that consistent sweet spot kick. I like trebles on the small ones either a feather or blank. Chrome with the chrome foil is my favorite. I’ll like j hooks ...

I find that I get wind knots if my lure is too light for my braid so that when I reel it in, the line is loose on the spool. The brand of braid matters too. I would get wind knots with suffix 832 30 lb braid with the lucky craft 110, but not with 20 lb braid. I switched to power pro super slick v2 ...

Been itching to get out, arrived around 6:30 and fished until 9:30 or so. Took a while to get any bites although I was feeling lazy and didn’t move much from where I set up. Ended up with three small perch on Gulp sandworms (blood) all caught very close to shore.

Still looking for my first fish ...

On the sand at 6 am armed with blood worms & ghost shrimp. Was hoping the change in location and menu would get some better action than just hand size perch. Didn't disappoint. Very 1st cast with BW got an 18" corbina. Quite a few perch hits followed and nailed a few but bait stealers were winning ...

Fished North County yesterday. Fished from 5:15pm until 8 pm . Still a good amount of people in the water. Caught 4 perch and 1 corbina (9”) all on crab. All were caught in the 1st hour of fishing. Current was strong to the north. Bite slowed, switched to LC, nothing caught. Waves seemed pretty big ...

Everydog wrote: Tue Jul 08, 2025 10:54 am Speaking of North County. There is a nice trough at Jake's in Del Mar right now.
Courtesy of Surfline.

Ooh that looks tempting enough to check out.

Going surf fishing this afternoon. Not much strategy, but mostly sand crabs and shrimp, either in the troughs or shrimp flung out on the reefs.
Butch has me hoping it will be a corbina day for me, or my son. 20 inches or better, please!

A full moon and rush hour traffic might be a temptation to ...

Those double trebles on a LC will do a number on a fish (or hand ) A tough day, I guess, but you did get some fish...
Butch