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Nice pics and beautiful fish…
Butch

12# mono to 4# fluoro leader to 8# Owner Mosquito hook. 3/8oz sinker..
Butch

mpa_slayer wrote: Fri May 23, 2025 9:54 pm Have they opened up the pier yet?

Nope still closed down. They said by summer, but summer is pretty close…
Butch

2nd day… 6-8 BSP. Mostly hand size… 2 bigger at 12-13”…My back has been wonky the last 2-3 weeks, so I’m not pushing it much. Only fished for an hour this am. Found a decent hole, but nobody home… The eel grass was a pain, kelp no so much. The rest of the conditions where about the same as yesterday ...

And I want to catch that fish in Butch's sdfish user photo!


I caught that fish almost exactly a year ago…. It was a little over 25” and the most solid built corb I have ever seen…I would like to re-catch it as well…As far as I know it is still swimming out there.. I wish us both luck… Maybe me ...

Day 5… Heartbreak! …After catching 8-10 decent BSP, I cast B2B sand crabs next to the pier, and I hooked a huge SFC... Of course it headed straight under it... I followed trying to keep it from wrapping the pilings... I followed into chest deep water with breaking waves under the pier.... I fought ...

Back to the mono vs braid.. I had a tussle with a big spot fin croaker under a pier this am….
I was using 6# Yozuri Hybrid with a 4#. fluro leader.. The leader finally broke, but I guarantee you if that had been braid, the fight wouldn’t have lasted 1/2 as long…. That Yozuri is some tough stuff ...

5th day… Plenty of decent grade BSP on B2B SCs. Eel grass and kelp a pain but started clearing at the end of the session… Tried for SFC by the pier.. Nada.. Then got into the perch at a hole farther south.. water warm enough, but the shore break a little sloppy, so I got wet again… I was kicking up ...

8-10# would be fine.. But the 6#, 4# leader is my everyday setup.. I’m pretty sure I would have caught that spot fin croaker, if it didn’t wrap around a barnacle incrusted piling.. I caught that 25”+ corbina in my avatar a year ago today on that same set up…. I’ve caught mid sized bat rays and ...

You were not kidding about the stingrays, Butch. I was at Del Mar again, and there were a lot of them, about the size of a dinner plate.
Not a ton of other fish. I farmed a keeper halibut, which just came unbuttoned in the last little wave, and got a 15-26 inch Calico. And just one perch and one ...

Last day… No fishing today… Back has been sore, and I have to pack up to go home…. Thanks for the use of your beaches and fish… All fish were only borrowed and returned unmolesed except for some lip piercings… Except that darn SFC has my hook in his lip.. If anyone catches a big spot with a #8 Owner ...

A steady, if unspectacular small to medium BSP bite.. Ended with 15-20 perch on B2B sand crabs… The perch were smaller than what I was getting in Pacific Beach a week or two ago… Water was cooler, with surf manageable.. Little to no salad to deal with… A buddy managed a 15" corb, but that was the ...

Way to beat the skunk… you’ll have better days… Glad you cold get out…
Butch

Nice comeback… Your son will remember the one that got a way…
Butch

@Everydog , Calcutta reels are very nice reels , I could make a list of all the attributes but they are in their own class. There are an amazing number of very high quality reels that can match the performance . Daiwa , Shimano , Okuma , and others all will fit the purpose . Guess the first ...

Happy Fathers Day to all of you Papas out there.. Gand and Great Grand as well…
Butch

I have been in touch with guide Wesley Brough about using his services, but haven’t finished our discussions… I primarily want to just fish for a couple of early morning hours every day.. Like I said, it’s not a fishing trip, but I would like to maybe get a couple of fish off of my bucket list…
Butch

Everydog wrote: Thu Jun 19, 2025 8:17 am Sent the lucky craft to San Vicente Island. Unfortunately, it was no longer attached to my rod and reel. I got bumped once before returning to bait fishing. Getting the bugs worked out. Croaker.jpg

I think you've got the bugs worked out...Nice SFC...
Butch

At least you made the effort… Better than me..
Butch

Good for you on getting Jake out… Nice SBB too.. I don’t tube at all, and don’t fish the bays as much as I used to, but they can really produce… Nice fishing for you two..
Butch