San Diego & SoCal Fishing Forums

I've always liked watching Mikey's "Fish and sips" videos. Dude is a happy to be alive kind of guy, loving a simple life. After going through the CA boater's course, he needs a new life jacket

My son is out for the weekend from college, instead of meeting him for dinner, I like to spend the day outside fishing. We tried something new in lobster fishing. We did a noon to midnight on the Triton out of La Harbor, a half day fishing and half day lobster at Catalina Island. Since its lobster ...

Had an afternoon and an early morning session. North county reefs. Mostly used 13 ft rod and 40 lb mainline to cast over the reef edge. #2 and #1/0 circle hooks.

The best fish is always the one that was lost. How true! This morning I felt some smaller fish biting, some were fairly strong. Then Bam ...

I went to the Shelter island pier last week but it was dead. Out of couple dozens of poles only a few macks and some smelt in 3 hours. I don't know if it's the water temp or something else that is affecting the bite. Gonna try again when the water temp gets above 65.

Thanks for the insight. I usually go to Oceanside. Water temp is 61-62 right now

Whenever I make bait on my boat I'll start at MB jetty but if that doesn't produce my go to is always Crystal pier right next to it. 98% of the time it produces but lately with the thick red tide it may be tough

Walked down to a favorite beach spot to fish a weighted weedless swimbait (shown) along the sand/rock shoreline here, with much smaller surf today.

The recent south swells have migrated tons of sand north on my beach, and have unburied the local acres of eel grass - which is all dead and drifting ...

I've been on other forums for years, just found this one. None the less, figured I would post something. This was last Sunday, it taped out a tad over 100" (largest male I've seen). Quick measurement and returned to the water, swam away strong. Always good to find a forum, hopefully you guys don't ...

Hello everyone, my name is Verne and I typically fish from N. OC to N. LA counties. I'm 100% catch and release, and unless shark fishing I usually fish solo. Hope reports from this area are okay on this site, if not please let me know.

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1st one for this season at MB, 21.5" on 2 small sc's, near high tide this am. So far, the crabs have been either very small or golf balls. Good fun also to run into Jusbigguns on the sand.

I went out at low tide in the evening and caught three corvinas and one ray all on gulp bloodworms.

Salad was ungodly, yet again. Went around low tide 7-8
pm. Water temp is still wonderful, but with that comes a bunch of swimmers/surfers and, recently at least, snorkelers.

Anyway, fishing was pretty good. In those about 1.5 hours each day for those 2 days, we got 3 croaker, 1 sargo, a couple ...

Saw this on Reddit. Anyone get a chance to cast a line? Check it out tomorrow?

Just checked the Surfline Cams, and the birds are feeding heavy at Torrey Pines today. Swell is gonna be jumping all day today and maxxing out at 10-15 feet the next couple of days - beware of huge sets!


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Started the day by finding only 2 sand crabs, so I went with the old stand by.... Dried, frozen blood worms... I first tried Seal Beach for no bites on the SCs or BWs.. After wasting a couple of hours there, I made a run to Huntington Beach... Good choice... After a few misfires with 2 dinky BSP, I ...

Guess we're all a little late to the party and you're probably on your way up as I type this. There's 50 miles of coast line between TP and DP, so I'd just find whatever is most convenient for you.

Halibut season is warming up and grunion are expected this weekend, so your LC might be the best bet ...

Oceanside harbor beach near the south jetty ...finally one nearly worth a photo.

First legal hali from the surf. Caught down in San Diego on a white fluke drop shot. It was the only fish I caught and I was just getting ready to leave to try the bay instead of the surf.

These 2 small corbina ate the same soft shell on consecutive casts. Burnout separates Torrance Beach and Redondo Beach.

Went fishing about five or six times over the past few weeks for my first time in years. Happy to say that there are plenty more fish biting these days than two years go, when I left off. I've only caught BSP and Walleye SP, but I'll take it. Each session has been yielding at least a fish every 20 ...