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Spent a few hours at Mission Beach again today, and showed up to calm waters and a late arriving “high” tide. Sand crabs were plentiful but the bite was pretty slow. Reeled in a few times to see my crabs picked over without even feeling bites some of the time!

Regardless, skunk avoided. Caught a ...

New to surf fishing. I've been out a few times now and have managed to avoid the skunk. Went out to Torrey Pines for the first time this morning targeting corbina and spotfin. Fished from 5:30-9:30 and managed two. My first ever corbina and a new pb halibut. Still hunting for that legal. Both we ...

I went back to North TP yesterday, fishing from about 11:00 to 3:00 PM.
Lots of sand crabs, but mostly hard-shelled, whereas there were tons of soft ones a few weeks ago. Weeds were medium to a PITA.
Caught a mix, around 7-8 fish all in a near-shore trough. Only one perch, but they are chomping ...

It was easy to park at the pay lot off McGonigle.$10. I have been driving by Carmel Mountain Road for about a month now, and while it would be a little farther to walk, there has been parking open every time. I had my wife with me, so paying for parking was easier to accept.

A man posted a picture ...

Wife asked if I wanted to go to the beach. So I packed 1 rod. Arrived at beach about 12:15. Waited until about 2:30 after tide was coming back in to fish. Fished off and on between beverages until about 4 pm. —- skunked.. Used crabs and gulp worms.
Had a few nibbles, but nothing hooked. Noticed ...

Really good perch bite yesterday for about an hour, 7 - 8 am on the incoming tide. All on small sand crabs that had roe on a #6. Could not find any softies. Got 10 in all, more than half were 10-11" plus. Was alternating baits with another rod setup with a larger #2 hook using lugworms and ghost ...

Gotcha on the parking. I may consider getting an annual parking pass for next year but $200 is pricey. Would have to do a lot of fishing in the N. county to make that worthwhile. I can make it to Mission, Pacific or OB in 15 minutes, takes twice as long to TP plus lot of free parking, at least ...

Thursday's outing should count as three trips. I stayed so long at the beach. I had a friend join me in the mid-morning, and my wife later joined me. I didn't want to jump back into evening rush hour traffic, so I stayed. I got three more spotfin, a corbina about 16", and some YFC. I paid for it in ...

Four hours at Mission Beach this morning starting around 6:09am… caught one perch in hour four, ha. Skunk avoided! Phew.

Pretty slow bite all morning as the tide came in (duh). Not much action save for a couple larger bites that I couldn’t land.

Still beats not fishing at all, and was a ...

Fishing makes no sense.

Went north of Mission Beach boardwalk this morning, just to switch things up a bit. Caught a couple perch early, and then a ray and a GNSF. I brought spare leader line that ran out on me, and at some point I was just fishing using main line that was all curled up for ...

Fishing makes no sense.

Went north of Mission Beach boardwalk this morning, just to switch things up a bit. Caught a couple perch early, and then a ray and a GNSF. I brought spare leader line that ran out on me, and at some point I was just fishing using main line that was all curled up for ...

Took my friend to Hospitality Point. We used mussel, anchovies, squid. He caught a baby calico but I got nothing. (Well, it WAS in the middle of the day, so I wasn’t expecting much.)

After dark and just before high tide, I went to north end of Marine St & cast out near the reef using grunion on 2/0 ...

While walking the dog I watched a guy south of Crystal pier catch a corbina in the surf, so I figured I’d go fish some. I fished the surf south of Crystal pier, mostly in front of the lifeguard station, from maybe 8:30-11:00 this morning. I went under the pier for sand crabs and got 20+ with roe ...

After work session from 4pm-7pm.The little bit of rain just before helped clear the beach of people quite nicely. Caught 5 yellowfin croaker and 2 surf perch. Almost all my bites were past the breakers barely anything in close. Tried for halibut on a double dropshot with no luck but doubled up on ...

Yep, fun morning. Trying to share a couple pics, maybe, I think.

Anyone looking for sand crabs, there are massive beds of them up in North Carlsbad as of Sunday evening. Mostly nickel sized, over 50% over that size or bigger had roe.

Fished from 5:30pm-7:30pm. Lots of perch in the shallows. Saw a couple guys fly fishing who caught a couple beans, no luck there ...

Sounds like fun . Learning something new / different . I have done a bit of dabbling in the long distance casting myself . There are some websites that go pretty deeply into it . I have been using mono main and shock lines connected by a Crazy Alberto knot . .040 mm diameter Suffix Siege or ...

Tides...goodness, certainly one of the most important elements in surf fishing. Here are a few things I've observed over the years: When fishing on beaches with lots of kelp/eel grass I like to fish from an hour after low tide, up to high tide. This keeps most of the kelp/grass on the sand and not ...

Got out Thursday am for a short session & to check for sand crabs under the pier. Lots and lots, micros to small; gathered up a bunch with roe & a few softies. Another close-by angler mentioned a lot of crab beds appeared at low tide a few days earlier. Tide was only about 1' incoming. Water felt ...

The bite was fast and furious at Mission Beach this weekend! Mostly perch, but fish are fish, especially lately.

I "cheated" a bit Saturday morning and made a very early morning pit stop at Crystal Pier to check out the crab bets y'all mention being there, and sure enough, there were plenty. Got ...