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Great day of fishing, so glad to see the big ones coming in now. Thanks for the report!

Fished Mission Beach from 6:30-10:00. Beautiful morning out there, and I was almost disappointed because I’d wanted to try some new rain gear I’d gotten :lol:

Instead, it was all sunshine and literal rainbows.

The current was a little strong at times but certainly manageable/navigable. Once I ...

Finally headed north. I struggle reading the beach in PB wondering if I lost the ability or if it was just that smooth structure wise. Welp there was definitely a lot more to read in Solana. Caught 8 perch all in the average model one pushing 10 but no dinks or bait pickers.

And finally caught ...

Glad to see the quality is going up there. I think it's spawn time for them soon. Were you fishing closer to the jetty or pier?


I might have to try a Lucky Craft next time. Always wanted to catch one on a LC.


I picked up a few battlestars on Monday but was not brave enough to tie one on to ...

Beautiful fish! Great to hear the water is clearing. I wonder if it's because the swells are coming from the NW so it can brush the kelp away when the current is moving south?

Thanks for the report!

The mornings are starting to get a little chilly!! Hard to feel the bait as I set up the early casts 🥶

Shorter hours for me today since the bite died earlier than yesterday, and I used that experience to just shut things down instead of holding out hope for any last nibbles. First cast was in the ...

Pre-holiday report from Mission Beach. Calm and clean surf this morning, and fished the incoming low tide up to almost its peak. Hooray for holiday time off from work! It feels like it’s been a while since there has been “fishing hours” tides of less than 6’ down here so it was a nice change of pace ...

Man today was weird...
Hit incoming for the first time in a month. Low tide and day break coincided wave power at a complete zero rating. Man it felt all lined up.

On the water by 630 absolutely nothing til about 830 then 3 on back to back casts. Then nothing. Went for a late breakfast at Ki's ...

Beautiful morning out at Mission Beach today; fished the outgoing tide from 6:30 until about 8:30, very calm waters with very little north/south current, and very clean (bordering on clear by the end of my session!). Very light crowds… everyone must’ve been sleeping off the damage they did on ...

Hello all,

Had this entire week off, and decided to try "Jwacky's" suggestion for using mussel meat.

I bought a pack of frozen mussels from H-Mart.... What a WEEK!

I caught so many high quality fish! Slab perch, Giant smelt, and several BIG corbina.

I had 2 days with over 20 fish.

For the sake ...

Nice going, definitely a good outing. Perch that size are fun

Quality perch.. Glad the king tides worked for you.. They were predicting some surf along with the tides up here in OC/LA so I didn't go out... Maybe I should have...
Butch

I walked south Mission Beach just before sunset with the family. Really wanted to check out peak low tide, and it was pretty crazy to see!! We were able to walk out what felt like forever. Those large birds we typically see nose diving into the water way off in the distance were easily within ...

Fished both sides. Fished bay side where Bendo suggested from about 6:30 to 7:15. Tide was coming in, a little wind in my face. Grass on 8 of 10 casts. Came back after the 1st game. Gave it another go from about 9:45 until 10, tide was going out. Grass on about 7 of 10 casts. Talked to 2 others ...

Finally got back out to Mission Beach after last week’s king tides. Fished the outgoing tide from about 6:30 - 9:00. The water wasn’t super clean, with seaweed scattered on the shore and in the water. Thankfully, it wasn’t floating in huge clumps so I was able to avoid it pretty easily.

As for the ...

Just a thought. When I was growing up we had a strip of ivy growing next to the street. It was full of Snails. I would gather up those maybe 20-30 at a time in the early morning. My Mom Froze them and when we went Surf Fishing, which was often, we would cut them in half with scissors and hook it on ...