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Did a charter on the Tribute on Oct 1st. Flat calm ocean...Found a pod of yellow fin and had pretty much wide open bite for about 4 hours straight. Fish from 25 to about 50 pounds. No love on the blue fin night bite but we grinded it out all night...Then we found the yellow fin a little later the ...

Excited by the recent fishing reports, I booked a spot on the Twilight trip on New Seaforth. Captain mentioned occasional yellowtail catch on fly lined sardines as stick baits. On the way to the fishing grounds, captain already spotted yellowtail action, fish boiling on the surface. I was super ...

Got out on our BW charter on the Tribute on the 18th for a 2 day....Water was rough to say the least. Battled through it fished hard for little prize. But did get to see the tax man collect on our hard fought gains. See Tribute Sportfishing Instagram for the whole video.

Tax man ate a 40 pounder ...

We did it!! All previous fish counts were filled with small blue fin to 15 pounds! We thought we'd be fishing the same......but the big ones showed up in force. Made it to the grounds on our 1st day at about 9 pm and on our first drop we landed 3 over 80 pounds. Then we picked em up throughout the ...

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 ...

This is even better than Solunar Tables for explaining why the bite was slow. Water was too cold or too warm. Now if I could just find a way to predict when the bite was going to be good instead of an excuse for a slow bite.

Got 17 spotted bay bass at Tidelands this morning. Was doing well until ...

They're not, but their eggs are poisonous.

I watched my friend catch this unlikely suspect last week. A quick photo, then released.

He's confused, it's a true sculpin, not a poisonous spiked scorpionfish.

OOlicon wrote: Mon Oct 02, 2023 6:11 pm He's confused, it's a true sculpin, not a poisonous spiked scorpionfish.

Good point. True sculpins, such as cabezon, are from the Cottoidea family, whereas the California Scorpionfish is from the Scorpaenidae family.

Grandson called me Friday night and asked If I'd like to do a little surf fishing with him and his buddy... His buddy is a fisherman but hadn't surf fished since he was younger... My Grandson supplied all of the gear for him to use... We decided on fishing the inside and outside of Alamitos ...

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

...and I gave it shot. Water was murky, especially close to city water runoffs. I walked about half a mile away. The water still had a brown-ish hue but at least no weird smells. Still not great condition but it could start raining any minute so what's the heck, just cast.

Got some bites. Some ...

Spent 2 hours in the afternoon trying my luck from the shore. Got couple of bites but only managed to catch a single calico.

After a cancelled session Wednesday at Coronado due to impossible kelp/grass conditions followed by a skunk at Mission, decided to give it another go yesterday 20240829_063409 copy.jpg morning at PB. Got there at first light and couldn't miss for an hour & half. The perch were hitting as soon as the ...

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Saw this on channel 8....

Surf fishing today at low tide. Pretty calm conditions but was late to get out so limited on time. Was targeting sheephead and surprised to see this on my line, but a welcome surprise

**UPDATE**

The grunion were there! Not huge #'s, but plenty to have some fun and see an amazing display of nature! Pretty big wave power, the big washups seemed to have the most fish coming in. Put about a dozen in a bucket just to observe, used a few for live bait later, but they kept getting ...

Fished Del Mar for a few hours late afternoon. Crowds weren’t too bad. Water was dirty but not too much salad to snag on. Started off with landing two small YFC right away. Nothing for the next hour or so until this Corvina took a liking to the Gulp Sandworms of all things. Fought much harder and ...

Sight-fishing between Blacks and Del Mar has been "excellent" this season, except for the whole catching part. This year is the first time I've seen spotfin tailing in the surf, but almost like a first-cast-curse, I've only been able to catch the first one I spotted (pun intended) in late May, using ...