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Felt like getting out after the work week. Still some summer crowds so took it easy and waited for the swimmers to tire out. Decent amount of folks fishing, some catching stuff some not.

As for myself, caught a few Walleyes and a nice sized BSP before packing it up. Nice evening overall, gorgeous ...

My son wanted to get in on the fishing action and asked to try some north county beaches. We attempted South Carlsbad State beach and Tamarack beach but shorelines were either too small or far too crowded to enjoy it.

Settled on Fletcher Cove (my personal favorite beach for relaxing), battled a ...

Wrapping up the morning at Mission Beach, arrived around 6:30 with pretty much the entire beach to myself. Caught a croaker early on (my first!), a walleye, and then around 8:30-8:45 pulled in 4-5 BSP in the span of 10–15 minutes.

Must’ve been getting bites after that rush because I was pulling in ...

A variety this morning; started off at 05:30 with a dinner plate size ray followed by a small leo. Perch bite was slow at first but turned on around 6. Got 10 overall plus a mid size corbina, about 14", over next 1.5 hours, mostly on sand crabs but a few on some left over ghost shrimp. Perch mostly ...

I’ve been spending my early mornings chasing the silver ghosts on ultra light. My failure has been great with only seeing a couple shallow but not connecting to any. I’ve been fishing George’s, seaside, and Del Mar with no luck so far. I’m really trying to scratch this fish off, any tips or ...

first post in long while, haven't been on this site in years and I'm glad to see SD fish is back to fishing posts. 😅 IYKYK
Fished blacks in morning on a flat medium high tide. got mixed bag of critters, started off with YFC on first cast which was confiscated to Mr. Osprey. It wasn't wide open but ...

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 ...

SKUNKED!

I was due for a skunk session.

Lots of grass, weird tide. Nice weather, at least.

Guess I’ll just have to get back out there another day.

Back at it at Mission Beach this morning. Better conditions and was getting more bites, although only two small guys made their way to shore. A tiny perch and (I think?) a baby croaker. Must’ve felt bad for my day yesterday so it humored me

Let's say a jetty is accessible to the public from a certain point.

If you navigate the jetty below the high water/tide line, can you fish the entire jetty even though above it may be private property?

I thought that California law said that you can't own the water. You can only own the land ...

After over a week on the sidelines with back spasms decided to give it a go this AM. Photo tells it all of conditions. The junk was washing back into the cast zone all up & down the beach, some spots would clear momentarily then fill in again. Lot of false kelp hits. That said managed a half dozen ...

The corbina and croaker were biting in close today. This 18” corbina ate a thumb sized soft shell and the not so common spotfin ate 2 small soft shells.

New beach for me; fished other N. County areas in the past but not this one. A very nice beach, easy close in parking, just a short walk down a ramp to the beach and great water conditions. Was hoping for some croaker & corbina action but turned out to be exclusively perch, 6 total over 2 hours ...

The tide was out, the crabs were big and the perch were small. New personal best (worst?) for smallest perch

Caught one other little guy, though I was getting what felt like some decent bites. Just felt like getting out to the beach on a Thursday evening for some fresh ocean air.

Went to Carlsbad area 8/13 for my second try at the surf. It was slower this time with a ton of wave action. Got one decent perch. Wasn’t going great, so I hit the little Batiquitos lagoon jetty and caught several baby sand bass, a baby calico, and a rock wrasse. Went a little farther south for the ...

A short late AM session just south of pier. Clean water, better than expected conditions, tide incoming at about 4' at 10 am. Lug worms & mussel the bait of choice today. Good perch bite, best 2 hits turned out to be 2 guitar fish, both around 2'. 6 perch in the mix, all 6-8". Called it at 11:30 as ...

I catch most of my big Halibut in the Surf before the Sun comes out. When that gloom clears up the Big Halis tend to move onto a little deeper water. I also fish the morning after the Gruinion Runs. On the beach at 5am and done by 9-10am. I almost exclusively use 5 inch Pearl ZMan Streakz on 1/8 ...

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 ...

So, I had three trips to Del Mar and no other fishing since the last report. I enjoyed the fishing, but the story was just the same old thing. I haven't caught a spotfin in three consecutive trips, but it's been a long time since my last trip without at least one chunky corbina in the mix. It was ...

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 ...