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Took a break from studying for finals and went out on the beach for 2 hours this afternoon, fishing the incoming tide. There were a ton of man-o-wars. It was very slow until ~6 pm, then the bass hit less than 30 seconds after a cast. Got the spotfin shortly after, then it was dead again until i ...

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 ...

1st one for this season at MB, 21.5" on 2 small sc's, near high tide this am. So far, the crabs have been either very small or golf balls. Good fun also to run into Jusbigguns on the sand.

Have not seen any yet in the skinny. Fish were holding in a nice inshore trough.

I picked one up today and lost one in Del Mar.

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Best perch from a session last week. 14 inches and lots of spirit!

Hit the surf 7 am. Threw LC almost the entire time. 3 solid bumps 2 hookup’s that resulted in spool (almost I had to palm the spool so I don’t lose my braid) left at 10 30. Lots of sand crabs but they were very small.

I was there yesterday morning at sunrise. Walked south all the way to flat rock. Lots of exposed reefs and attached kelp that I got snagged on a bunch. Lots of cobble in the shallows, as well. I found several beds of micro crabs up high out of the water, but all crabs were small. Didn’t catch ...

Well I hit up the beach in Oceanside at Cassidy Street at low tide in the morning. Nothing bit on the gulp sandworm. This morning I hit up South Ponto, wasnt there very long, had to get back home for work. There are tons of sandcrabs there, but they are tiny tiny. The cobblestones are pretty rough ...

Been fishing since May. First two weeks I went every day to Torrey. Skunked. Since then,I have caught close to 100 fish at my favorite beach. Occasionally would come back to TP to try again... skunk. The other day finally caught my first fish... three small corbina which were released. Lots of kids ...

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Thanks, Hilary. How does the drop in temp change your fishing strategy? Hit the bays instead of the surf? Hmmm...


Fish is still biting ok in the surf. Hit LJ yesterday for a 2 hour session and landed 7 or 8 including a 16in calico, a decent sargo, and some others ...

Good conditions yesterday, water warming up, salad free. No sand crabs until an hour before the 8:45 high; most had no roe. Quite a few guys chucking flies, more than I usually see. Lot of mid size perch & missed on a medium size bean, unbuttoned right in front of me. Then, was not looking for this ...

Fished TP yesterday and it was weeds weeds weeds.
Every cast returned handfuls of weeds and sometimes big clumps.
Never seen it this bad, at least that I can remember. There have been days with kelp and weeds and was able to catch something, but not yesterday.

Water got cold about a week before Hilary, I had to switch back to my full suit for surfing before the storm. The bite has been really slow everywhere I've been in North county outside of the tide maxing or bottoming out. Dusk has been okay too, dawn has been lackluster.

About 66 - 67, didn't feel cold to me.

Temps may drop a degree or two again for a few days from a mild NW wind swell passing through.

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 ...

Been a month off the sand so with water temps still fairly warm, decided to make a beach visit yesterday afternoon. Corbina & croakers are still around if you can get your bait to them before the perch stealers. Conditions not great, sloppy surf with sets every 5-6 seconds & fairly heavy salad ...

It was also wild "morning full of life" here in the WindanSea area on 12/27. Acres of birds, terns, shearwaters, gulls, pelicans, cormorants and loons etc. Some schools of anchovies up in knee deep water it was reported by a friend. He hooked something good-sized but lost it when a pelican somehow ...

Just checked the Surfline Cams, and the birds are feeding heavy at Torrey Pines today. Swell is gonna be jumping all day today and maxxing out at 10-15 feet the next couple of days - beware of huge sets!


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