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Not sure if “peak” is the right term, but my son and I hit up Mission Beach to try fishing the extreme low tide of this weekends King tides.

We tripped over some really large clams that were getting exposed in the water, but the fishing was about as I’d normally expect; handful of perch of various ...

Nothing more fun than putting a group of your friends on a hot Surf Bite.

Fish the inlets(River mouths) at dead low or high Tide for those elusive Halibut. Use at least a 5 inch white Swimbait to discourage the “Potato Chips”. It’s all about the Tide and the bite window is short most of the time, sometimes it never slows down.

Great Post! They only thing I can add is "time on the water". Nothing beats time on the water for learning by trial and error. Plus, when you have bad days that means (from a probability prospective) that you'll have just that many good days to come! Thanks for spreading the passion!

I had a small window this morning before some soccer games so I headed back to the beach. Still cold, obviously, but it was an otherwise beautiful sunny morning. Calm surf, calm currents, clean waters, and an active perch bite. Tiny coquina clams were popping up everywhere under my feet, which ...

Hello SDFish,

Landed PB Striped bass today from the shore. Measured at 29 inches and 8.77 lbs. Previous PB at 25" and 7 lbs.

Another beautiful, calm morning at Mission Beach. High tide, low surf, relatively calm currents. Other than a couple early clumps of grass, similar to yesterday, the water was clean.

Little to no easily observable structure makes things a little tricky but patience pays off. Took a while for the ...

I have fly fished mission beach 3 or 4 times this winter, always first thing in the morning… went last Saturday by Santa Clara (tower 19)… been getting 4 to 6 perch each time. Biggest one was 11 or 12”, lots of smediums and very few micro ones

I made it to the beach for an hour. Found 5 sand crabs and converted 2 of them to on back-to-back casts.

Nice! I'm convinced perch will eat anything. The finger-sized perch regularly take my lugworms that are as big as they are!!

Nice going. I’m convinced too. I posted a couple of pics with the perch and LC almost the same size.

Nice perch... There are fish that'll eat about any size bait.. Those perch look to have the breeding colors.. I wonder if those are territorial attacks on the LC?
Butch

Nice morning at Mission Beach, fished the low tide from 6:30 until about 9:00. Not much current, clean water with almost no seaweed whatsoever. Waves just high enough to keep things moving in the sand.

Nothing of note (quality-wise) aside from 9-10 perch, but I was catching them at a pretty steady ...

I wasn't gonna post this, because of the louse fishing, but I do enjoy reading your reports, so, fair is fair... Met up with my buddy of 65 years at Bolsa Chica for some much needed beach time at about 6AM... Tide was falling like a rock, but the weather and conditions were great..I used freeze ...

Made it out to Mission Beach this morning to get some fishing in before peak high tide. It was messy. Couple line snags in the grass, including a full on snap, strong currents, and very powerful waves. Surf report says 7’ but I’m sitting at Woody’s drinking a coffee and the water is coming up to ...