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Got out on our BW charter on the Tribute on the 18th for a 2 day....Water was rough to say the least. Battled through it fished hard for little prize. But did get to see the tax man collect on our hard fought gains. See Tribute Sportfishing Instagram for the whole video.

Tax man ate a 40 pounder ...

Went out on a charter Friday on the Fury. Destination SCI. Rough crossing and woke up outside of Wilson cove for a full in bid whitefish bite..(on seabass spot)..The Featured guests Seabass and Yellowtail were no shows to our party, but plenty of nice calicos, sheephead,whitefish for all. Great ...

Nice! Were they right up against the rocks like the perch are?

Have caught a few dinks in the surf recently. Nothing impressive at all. But today one short hali maybe 20” spit up this thing which i learned is a queenfish. Pretty cool

Walked down to a favorite beach spot to fish a weighted weedless swimbait (shown) along the sand/rock shoreline here, with much smaller surf today.

The recent south swells have migrated tons of sand north on my beach, and have unburied the local acres of eel grass - which is all dead and drifting ...

The water is starting to warm up ;)


@vdisney would be nice to see some of your famous surf fishing shark reports


This was last Sunday, first time in three years I chased the 'toothy critters'

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I've been on other forums for years, just found this one. None the less, figured I would post something. This was last Sunday, it taped out a tad over 100" (largest male I've seen). Quick measurement and returned to the water, swam away strong. Always good to find a forum, hopefully you guys don't ...

foulhook wrote: Thu May 25, 2023 7:16 am Glad to see you posting a report on here, always have seen your post on other sites
Nice shark is that a seven gill?

Yes, it's a male Sevengill

Happy Memorial Day friends! Perch fishing was great yesterday, my buddy and I caught 10+ perch each within an hour. They were about 10-12 inches. We also went to Oceanside pier and caught 8 Mackerel that we plan to use today for leopard sharks! Water clarity has improved a ton and water temps are ...

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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Caught this off the surf! Not sure what it is. Thinking Corbina?

On the sand for just an hour+. Found a school of spot fins or should I say they found me. 22", 5lbs and an 18" one. Two more on but came unbuttoned.

Been fishing since May. First two weeks I went every day to Torrey. Skunked. Since then,I have caught close to 100 fish at my favorite beach. Occasionally would come back to TP to try again... skunk. The other day finally caught my first fish... three small corbina which were released. Lots of kids ...

Plenty of action today on the north jetty. Went out a few hours after low tide and stayed until the tide started falling.

Kelp bass, rock wrasse, perch, sculpin, and cabezon were attacking on every cast. We were throwing dropper loop rigs with shrimp on size 4 hooks, and within 10 seconds of the ...

Biggest one for me.
4lbs 22".


Took my grandson one morning. Brought the ligth weight for him and a bigger one for me.
Plan was to set up a rod holder and soak some squid while I help him manage the smaller one.
After about 2 minutes he was not wanting to be the patient fisherman. So I decided to ...

Hit a beach yesterday am that hadn't been to since last year. Was targeting yellow fins at a reefy/rocky area of the beach. Usual perch suspects were around but being patient led to a good strike. Fish jumped to surface and got a good look, for sure a good size yfc but disappointedly a break off ...

We did our yearly trip to Tulum Mexico... We meet a bunch of friends down there every year and it's not a fishing trip... I fish an hour or less, some days, while my bride lounges under a palapa... This area is getting more devoid of sea life every year... They are constantly cleaning up the ...

I’ll probably never have a day like this again…

Grandson called me Friday night and asked If I'd like to do a little surf fishing with him and his buddy... His buddy is a fisherman but hadn't surf fished since he was younger... My Grandson supplied all of the gear for him to use... We decided on fishing the inside and outside of Alamitos ...

1st day out in awhile.. Beautiful day at Bolsa Chica .. Scrounged 3 sand crabs :roll: and figured I would use freeze/dried bloodworms, Since my local bait shop had no fresh bait… I got one dink perch on one of the sand crabs, and nothing else for awhile… Then the switch turned on about an hour ...