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This late season corbina ate a crab right at the edge of the sandy brown water. Good news is they are still around.

That's a great session for your first time! Keep up the good work!

Hey fellow surf anglers,
I'm going to be giving a surf fishing seminar at Tackle Day, November 1 at Fisherman's landing. I'll be covering the equipment I use and will demonstrate how I hook and fish baits like lug/bloodworms, sand crabs, ghost shrimp, mussel... and whatever other baits I can find ...

I had a small window to get some fishing in this morning; nothing out of the ordinary for the past couple weeks but some experiences/notes/observations:

I was there from 6:30 - 9:00. A little over an hour passed before I got any action at all.

The tide was higher than I’d anticipated based on ...

Healthy 25" Bean today @ Mission Beach
Bit in tight, 10' out.

The tide conditions weren’t ideal but I wanted to take advantage of the earlier sunrise this morning at Mission Beach. The current was manageable, although I’m not sure the same can be said for the grass everywhere. It came in spurts and could generally be seen in the water, but man, when it grabbed ...

Problems from my limited understanding of local:
Strong currents
Lots of debris and salad
Wading out to get in casting distance of natural food source areas gets dangerous with high current.

Today & tomorrow likely your best windows for half way decent conditions. So Cal Forecast, mainly directed to surfers, has put out a Hazardous Conditions Warning for Thursday & Friday, surf 2-4' OH by afternoon & 2-3' OH Friday, tapering off over weekend. Good luck, stay safe.

So nobody going to fish high tide this week.Can't you just stand back a little more a cast. I am going out Thursday. At least I will get some exercise. I am going to but a chunk of bait on and see of something bites.


I fished this morning and will post an update in a separate post.

The flaw ...

I couldn’t stay away. I got breakfast at Mission while the highest morning tired receded a bit (pic below of the high mark, halfway up the beach to the bike path!!) and made my way to the water.

All things considered, the water was relatively calm. The current was a little strong but not as strong ...

Looks like fun out there. On a good bite you can throw Trout Spoons and Spinners at them. With that treble hook back there you hook mostly every bite. This can really add to your numbers plus the Hardware Perch seem to average a little bigger. Good choices are Roostertails, Small Kastmasters and ...

Nice session…
Butch

Nice! It's always fun when you land that cast directly into a fish's mouth, haha.

The tide is cool to see, for sure. When I first pulled up Monday I was surprised at how calm it was... until I realized it was because the tide was already up the slope of the beach into the soft sand part! It was ...

I'll be out tomorrow early probably staying into peak high. Plan to hit the pier pilings and then trying to hit that shelf that's normally out of water. Will report on it.

Thinking the sand crab nursery under the pier will actually be in a foot or 2 of water and accessible to some larger fish. And ...

That's exactly why I wear a vest, and clip my cheap flip-flops to the vest.... Nothing to set down... Just stroll the beach... My fishing buddy lost a pair of sandals... Leaving them under a life guard tower...
Butch

Took the day off to create a four-day weekend, so I headed to the shore for some fishing.

Mussels were the bait du jour.

I got there close to 6:30 and fished until about 9:00. Relatively calm morning while the tide was out, but as the clouds burned off and the tide started to come in, the wind ...

Happy Veterans Day to all who have served, and special recognition to the families of those who served as well.

Today was pretty much a copy & paste of yesterday at MB. Relatively calm morning, and between 6:00 - 9:00 I was catching a steady stream of perch. Smaller than yesterday, but more spread ...

Oooh a walleye at MB don't see much of that. Looks like a great day and it looks like the incoming front and flat tide has them fired up!

Quality perch... Love the wallies...
Butch

Quality perch... Love the wallies...
Butch


Thank you. Did not know what a Wallie was. Had to look it up.


They taste pretty good too!! I feel like they're a bit more oily/buttery tasting than the barred surf perch. My profile pic is one because I just loved how the first one I caught at MB ...