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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 ...

If you really care about avoiding gut hooking, I suggest that you use inline (non-offset) circle hooks. 95% of time your catch will be lip-hooked, like in the picture below.
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Hook set would be different with circles and will take some time to get use to. I use them ...

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My PB halibut from the surf at just over 27"... I don't really fish these guys as I prefer corbina and SFC but have caught a ton of them as by-catch, but mostly non-legals... Only a couple of legals... You would be surprised how many you can catch with sand crabs ...

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 ...

Fished south of Crystal Pier Tuesday and Wednesday morning with sand crabs. Water temp around 67, light grass with the occasional big chunk of kelp. Water seemed a little sandy to me. Bite was slow but fish were bigger than what I normally catch here. Caught 3 BSP Tuesday. Caught 2 YFC and 4 BSP ...

Usual bait stealing critters this morning. Lots of sc's again, but mostly small, none with roe but quite a few soft shells. Water temp felt around 64-65, no grass problems, just a few kelp floaters. Got a half dozen hand size perchies & one small ray. Nice to see a different species showing up ...

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 ...

Comes through again. Another "never been fishing in my life" person gets fish on Gulp at the pier. 2 baby yfc in 15 minutes

Pescando el rio después de el huracán Hilary (Pesca con mosca)fly fishing (pesca de lobina)

Fished South San Diego Bay again this morning. Launched about 0630 and first cast around 0645. High tide around 0715

We both caught fish on the first cast and quickly caught several more. Five or Six long drifts today. One of those only produced a couple of fish each but the others were pretty ...

My right hand has carpal tunnel and it's been painful casting and stripping line for extended periods of time.

I borrowed a technique used by stillwater guys, using a floating line, long mono leader, and break-away strike indicator. The idea was to adjust the leader length below the indicator to ...

More trips since last week still see lots of bonito locally. Maybe even more than before.

Todays trip hooked up immediately on dropping back a couple of crocodiles to troll to search for fish. Hit within seconds. Caught a couple more casting the croc then switched to the fly rods and a size 4 ...

Did my now yearly, go hike your legs off and find a creek with trout. Searched the google for a new creek and landed on 1 that looked like it should have water. With the recent rain, i deff had some water moving. First few pools didnt have anything swimming around that i could see and i wasnt ...

Water is warm now. Don't need waders or boots.
I have spare dive booties, fins, pfd even an extra tube that holds.air pretty well.
Pm me if you want.to give it a.shot.
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i will throw the offer out as well, usually hit sd bay every friday. mostly shelter island and tidelands coronado. i have ...

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Pesca de lobina en RIO ( floattube fishing San Diego river ) BASS FISHING SAN DIEGO CA

Pesca de cabrillas con Sombrilla (A RIG fishing for spotted bay bass )

Looks like a great day to me, that was one of your home made baits I think, nothing more satisfying than getting them on your bait, what size head was that?
Have a great GOBBLE, GOBBLE DAY
Thanks for your post

I love my zippered waders! Absolute game changers. I found Paramount Outdoors over a year ago and the Deep Eddy Zippered Waders that I got from them are the best I have ever owned. After purchasing them I reached out to them telling them how much I loved them and let them know I make YouTube Videos ...

Never used them.. But are your fins loose enough to accommodate those lugged soles? .. I do mostly sandy beaches and don't need anything more than barefoot or flip-flops, but I could see the extra protection and support being good for rocky, rougher terrain... I don't know how the extra weight over ...