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Nice looking walleye! I wish they were a bit bigger, I like how they taste! But typically the ones that seem to live on our shores are small, and a quick internet search tells me that even at their biggest, they're still not particularly large.


I once asked the DFG (now DGW) if there was a ...

Nice looking walleye! I wish they were a bit bigger, I like how they taste! But typically the ones that seem to live on our shores are small, and a quick internet search tells me that even at their biggest, they're still not particularly large.


I once asked the DFG (now DGW) if there was a ...

Headed out today 730-10 fished the incoming to peak. Current was ripping south salad not so bad but lots kelp floaters to dodge.
3 caught small medium and large. This one is are is real close to my so cal PB. 12.75 on a rough measure.

Looks like I was just a bit south of @Jteo this morning at Mission Beach and my experience was similar. Incoming tide, sporadic kelp floaters, and a current that was indeed ripping to the south. I was generally able to avoid the mess in the water other than one minor surgery that needed to be ...

Absolutely beautiful morning at Mission Beach 8-)

It actually started a bit messy and a bit slow; current was swirling and the waves were crashing a little hard. Took almost 45 minutes to get any action and when I did, it was a perch about the size of my pointer finger!

Glad I stuck it out ...

Went out to get some more rain time in 6:30-9. Grass and kelp was non existent til the very end current definitely weaker. Caught 10-15 perch mainly in the small to medium range. Using predominately the honey badger paddle tail and a few on gulp.

Not the greatest report for Mission Beach this morning from 6:30 until about 9:00. Very cold air temperature, so much that I eagerly anticipated getting my feet in the water after re-baiting to warm back up. Never thought I’d say that with regards to the Pacific Ocean!

Calm surf, mild currents, but ...

After taking a month off from the sand, met up with @Jusbigguns this AM for a year ender. Never seen the surf so low & mellow as this morning, no swell whatsoever. Decent enough perch bite right off but shut down all together after 8 am. Outgoing tide was receding very fast. Couple of 8 inchers & a ...

Nice going, all sizable. Thanks for the report. On mussels or something else?

This low surf sure is interesting! I think I'll go check things out for a bit tomorrow morning, and then back again a bit over the weekend to play around in the afternoon negative tides.

Thanks for the report!

Very respectable perch.. And you beat the storm….
Butch

I had to check out the almost non-existent surf this morning at Mission Beach!! Truly a spectacle to see the ocean so calm, even at the highest tide of almost 7 feet. It was eerily silent at 6:30 this morning with only the occasional mini-breaker at the shore. Even the pelicans were in close, and a ...

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 ...