Torrey Pines 9/15

[Andrew_WOT]

Was there before sunrise, fairly clear water, not much seaweed.
Couldn't find any sand crabs beds, like at all. Started with dried lugworms, nothing, switched to gulp sandworms, nothing.
Like a desert, not even a nibble, even no birds in the surf line or any kind of activity, no rays, no beans, ghost town.
Before leaving around 8:15 tried lugworms again, and got a ... GRUNION. That's a first for me. LOL
Also found few small sand crabs beds on my way back, with ant size micros.

[Perch killer]

Wow, sounds like Mission & PB a few months ago. Very frustrating I know. Mission has actually perked up the last 2-3 weeks. Still mostly small to medium perch with some 10"+ models now & then but a few spot fins & good size corbina in the mix as well. Have been thinking of doing TP but you may have changed my mind ! Thanks for the report

[pseudoMoGil]

Nice job on the grunion and appreciate the report, TP was my favorite spot to fish last summer and it’s crazy how different the fishing there has been this year. I had a great day of fishing at MB this weekend and plan on heading there again tomorrow. Can’t say the sandcrab situation is better (probably a lost cause at this point) but dried lugworms were getting bit.

[hrierdan]

Strange how TP can be so terrible, and MB can be picking up. My hope is that as the water cools down the fish might actually come back. Might need to drive somewhere different this weekend (TP is just so darn convenient though

[DarkShadow]

The bite being better the further north you go, matching up with water temps being cooler, the further north you go, leads us to an interesting observation.

At least you have sand to dig up. Many a beach here further north in LA/Orange County lost all its sand due to that storm surge from the last hurricane.