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Crab sandwich for the win! Nice action, Butch

Got out for a late afternoon/sunset session last Thursday. Plenty of sand crabs but unless softshell or with roe, not getting hit. Half dozen or so of the usual hand size perchies, nothing bigger than 8". Had 2 good non perch hits and fish were on momentarily then unbuttoned. Suspect large corbina ...

Midnightpass wrote: Sun Jun 08, 2025 11:41 am Glad you finally got him or her. Nice fish.. I’ve yet to get one this year… Looking forward to many more for the both of us…
Butch

Thanks Butch. You're due, hang in there bud.
Bill

Went out first thing this morning with no luck whatsoever, but the water was clean, the sun was shining (in eastern San Diego, anyway), so I headed back out this evening.

Skunk avoided! One small perch, followed by a second, slightly larger perch. Had a third on the line but it broke free as it ...

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 question ...

Midday trip to Solana Beach/Fletcher Cove for some fishing and family time. Sand crabs were a little tough to come by but caught 6 perch (personal record for a session!) on both blood and camo Gulp sand worms. Surf was on the heavier side, little bit of kelp, but all in all a fun day on the shore ...

Blood worms great bait but expensive & not cost effective for catching just perch IMHO. Corbina & croaker love them as well if only they could get to the bait before the perch do !

Thanks for the report and hints guys . I do most of my perch fishing Jan to the end of May . If you want the bigger models , Green or Red shore crabs about the size of a quarter are top notch . One thing I will say if you have the gumption to DIY and the time . Ghost Shrimp = fish crack in the surf ...

...and crabs were a little tough to come by but caught 6 perch (personal record for a session!) on both blood and camo Gulp sand worms. Surf was on the heavier side, little bit of kelp, but all in all a fun day on the shore...


Sounds like a fun session :)

As for sand crabs, I use a homemade ...

To Mike M: I had 2 comments to your post that for whatever reason did not post yesterday . . . kept getting messages that the site was experiencing issues. Anyway, (1) I said you're fortunate not having to deal with the bait stealing perch at your beaches, lucky you ! and (2) about the red/orange ...

Yes Butch. For me, hook crab from top down to digger & egg on hook tip where roe would be. Looks like Mike hooks from bottom up so egg at end of hook near digger. Either way works.

Good stuff right now. clear water moderate surge, big school of bait (white seaperch? walleye?) in view. 4 lobsters chillin on the piling...another one walking up and down the piling in the background.

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This is ...

Today’s lesson learned is that I should probably keep at least a little bit of an eye on surf conditions before heading out. South Mission Bay at the peak of morning high tide was brutal. Heavy surf, lots of grass.

A small 3” bait fish of some sort washed up at my feet at some point so I’m not ...

https://surffishingsocalsd.com/surf-fishing-report-socal/page/2/ . This is a link to a very good surf fishing site . Nick is a local , well written . There are very good articles about gear in particular that may help with the decision . The fishing articles are very good as far as info goes . He is ...

Hadn't been out to PB in almost a month so gave it a look this AM. South of pier half way to LG station; what a mess of junk on the beach and in the water. If didn't get bit in 3-4 minutes, line loaded up with grass/lettuce. Lots of sand crabs though everywhere. One perchie and after half hour ...

Just a quick thought. I don’t know what the conditions were. Generally a lot of weeds come with swell. If it was after the swell and relatively calm, you can throw a Sand Crab under a Bobber. Now before you start laughing, the Bobber floats with the weeds and you give it the best drift you can. We ...

I've gotten four of these in three trips and pulled the hook on about the same number. Frustrating. Using bigger-than-average sand crabs, which are a lot of work to find. But there doesn't seem to be an alternative.
Lots of other fish to catch. This morning, I tried the negative tide with a ...

Good size spot fin. Seem to be a lot more of them this year in the surf. They love those bigger crabs with roe, corbina too, if the perch don't get the roe first, LOL ! Bummer about the break off, always disheartening. Have you tried ghost shrimp ? Croakers & beans love 'em.

Nice, calm evening on the water tonight! Bigger crowds as we get into the heart of summertime but still plenty of room to fish.

Reeled in four total perch between my daughter and I. One for me on with a sand crab on my new rod and reel (went with a Penn Squadron III and Spinfisher VI), three for ...

What happened to the croakers? This won't be new to anyone except possibly to Mike, if so. But was it ever good?
Delicious.
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