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Way to do, dude! That's awesome that you and the family got to work together to land that beast. As a dad who fishes with kids all the time, the chaos you described of the tangled line and not having all of your gear totally hit home for me. Fishing with kids is super stressful and awesome at the ...

Nicely done. An easy way I've found to deal with unhooking rays is to use two pairs of pliers. I grab the tail with a pair of heavy duty needle-nose pliers to keep it from slashing away at me. Then I use my curved-tip hemostats to remove the hook from the front end. Pulling back with my pliers on ...

Eating the Sand Crabs kicked up by my feet….

I found a few croakers, rays and this above average Corbina yesterday in close with soft shell crabs. Then this special guest star bit surprisingly hard.

Nice corbina and a tough little bone... Very interesting fishing excursion Mike... WTG!...
Butch

Thanks for the report… Don’t feel bad, I’m on a roll with Mr. Skunk…
Butch

That's too bad. Kelp was nearly completely gone from much of Del Mar yesterday through high tide swing, even around the reefs. What a pleasure to fish without that. Fishing seemed down, but not out by any means.

There is no rule. The fish move in and move out, kind of like the weeds. One thing for sure, if the bite stops completely, you have two choices. Stay and wait for the next group of fish to move in. Leave that spot and try and find a new group of fish. This time of year, the fish seem to hang on the ...

I’ve caught several huge ones. One on live Squid at Catalina, and a couple on Sardines while fishing for Halibut in Dana Point Harbor. All were bigger than 5 pounds, all were released. No I didn’t know the World Record was smaller than that at the time. The Capitan of the Clemente slowed his Boat ...

The surf definitely has gotten tough this past week. Tons of weeds at Blacks too. If I let my line sit for more than 10 seconds I was pulling in a weed ball. I nearly skunked too. But ended up with 2 in the final hour. Hope the weeds get pushed out soon and the bite turns back on.

jwacky wrote: Mon Aug 04, 2025 10:22 am ... vibe seems to be a factor for sure. Get tense and frustrated and no fish is gonna bite on that negative energy!!

I agree with this 100%! Attitude and intent matter.

The other fish is with a rather bad photo of the angler, and it shows I caught it with an Ugly Stik, too. ...doing ya'll a favor skipping that one.

New beach for me; fished other N. County areas in the past but not this one. A very nice beach, easy close in parking, just a short walk down a ramp to the beach and great water conditions. Was hoping for some croaker & corbina action but turned out to be exclusively perch, 6 total over 2 hours ...

I got on to mussel meat from one of Nick Heid's surf fishing tutorials. You can find them fresh or frozen (off the shell) at most Asian seafood markets. With fresh ones I'll salt them night before, toughens them up for better hold. Freezing any leftovers I find doesn't work well. My preference is to ...

We call those small Corbina - Cigars. Sometimes they swarm the beach.

Got back out this morning after grouting/caulking the shower last week.
Fished with LC from 6:30 to 7:15, got nothing
7:30 to 8:20 switched to crabs, only caught 4 small perch. Oh well, better than grouting a shower
Planning on another go at it on Friday

It beats me in front of a computer all day… And no skunk..
Butch

Went to Carlsbad area 8/13 for my second try at the surf. It was slower this time with a ton of wave action. Got one decent perch. Wasn’t going great, so I hit the little Batiquitos lagoon jetty and caught several baby sand bass, a baby calico, and a rock wrasse. Went a little farther south for the ...

A short late AM session just south of pier. Clean water, better than expected conditions, tide incoming at about 4' at 10 am. Lug worms & mussel the bait of choice today. Good perch bite, best 2 hits turned out to be 2 guitar fish, both around 2'. 6 perch in the mix, all 6-8". Called it at 11:30 as ...

Hit it today from 9:30 to 11. Only caught 3 perch, largest maybe 6”. Plenty of bait thief’s today. Swell was way down from Wednesday. Wind was from southernly direction at about 12 or so, kinda choppy. Saw 1 guy to the north of me, didn’t seem to be having luck.