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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 ...

jwacky, yeah maybe if they play there again. I definitely would try the bay side especially if the wind was westerly. The beach had a lot of trash on it, especially plastics. Even a “beach whistle” which I thought was an east coast thing. Plenty of parking there and easy walking.


People seem to ...

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 ...

Fished the outgoing tide at Mission Beach from 6:30 until about 9:00am. Really calm surf, but also a little breezy. Overcast, cool weather. The water was very clean, though, which is always nice!

The bite was slower than Saturday. I caught a couple on my first two casts within 15 minutes of ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

I got out one last time before this storm rolls through but was already seeing some of the effects at Mission Beach this morning between 6:30-9:00.

Wind and strong currents to the north made fishing feel like a bit more of a chore than I’d like for it to be, but I did still manage to reel in four ...

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 ...

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!

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 ...

Hi all!

2025 was the my first year of surf fishing after many, many years of fishing freshwater around San Diego. It all started on a camping trip at South Carlsbad State Beach before Memorial Day Weekend. I'd joked that I was just going to eat what I caught, and brought a couple small poles and ...

My first corbina, in my first year of surf fishing.

Perch tacos.

Flour, egg wash, Japanese panko.

Fresh cabbage, red onion, tomato, lime juice, salt and pepper pepper.

Sour cream/crema, mayo, chipotle in adobo.

My first corbina, in my first year of surf fishing.


That is really cool!
I have never caught a Corbina.
Thanks for sharing and tight lines :-)


Probably won't find many of them in Lake Murray :lol:

I drive by your stomping grounds multiple times a week on the way out to fish the surf. I ...

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 call ...

Oops, meant to post this a bit earlier.

Nice conditions with the outgoing tide this morning at Mission Beach from 6:30 until about 9:30. Light current, smallish waves, calm tide and almost no kelp/grass. The bite died off hard around 8:30 but I had a pit stop to make on the way home so I spent an ...

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 ...