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RBFishing wrote: Fri Feb 27, 2026 4:50 pm I found my way to North Ponto beach. Caught 1 hand sized BSP. Tide was -1.1 at mid day so I was able to wade out far.

One is better than none... Congrats on the skunk breaker...
Butch

Terramar 3-14. There was so much seaweed I had to quit. No bites.

bdb74 wrote: Sat Mar 14, 2026 12:33 pm Terramar 3-14. There was so much seaweed I had to quit. No bites.

Sorry to hear that

Tamarack beach North jetty of the North Agua Hedionda outlet 3-15 morning. I had a few nibbles and one corbina on a 2" motor oil grub on c-rig.

Went out from 4pm to 5:30. 2 perch, combined length under 10”. A few more nibbles, probably the same size. Both on camo gulp. Switched to bloodworm gulp - no takers.

Tamarack 3-22-26. 1 8" BSP on the c-rig grub. I hooked something so large I could not pull it in and then it shook the hook.

bdb74 wrote: Sun Mar 22, 2026 10:42 am Tamarack 3-22-26. 1 8" BSP on the c-rig grub. I hooked something so large I could not pull it in and then it shook the hook.

Those mystery beasts... thanks for the report.

bdb74 wrote: Sun Mar 22, 2026 10:42 am Tamarack 3-22-26. 1 8" BSP on the c-rig grub. I hooked something so large I could not pull it in and then it shook the hook.

Same happened to me last week, C-Rig Gulp worm, thought I snagged as couldn't pull the line, but then felt some head shakes and line started zipping from the reel, I probably adjusted drag too high in order to stop so it cut off.
I suspect it was either ray or guitarfish, what else big like that will take Gulp worm. That what makes surf fishing so exciting, you never know what kind of monsters lurking there and what you can hook.

Nick has a great fisherman tale on hooking up Great White, entertaining reading.
https://surffishingsocalsd.com/a-fisher ... ly-hooked/

Looking good up north with some 1-2 foot surf? Has anybody gone fishing today/lately? I can't go today. Haven't been fishing much at all. How is the fishing and sand crab emergence? Anywhere happening for you?

I was at Tamarack several times over the last 2 weeks and could discern no structure whatsoever. I saw no one else catch anything and the looks on their faces said "skunked". I worked hard up and down the beach for maybe 1 BSP each trip. The sand crabs are the size of pillbugs. The only fish I saw were BSP under 6" close to shore. Whatever is going on in the posts about other places seems like a different county or state compared to Carlsbad right now.

Thanks for your update. I got out yesterday afternoon. Even around the submerged reefs, good holes were hard to find; subtle differences in stacking waves made a difference, though. I felt it was too rough for Lucky Craft, so I switched to gulp sand worms and dehydrated lug worms. After about 3 hours, I got 6 small perch and two small yellowfin croaker. Sand crabs are tiny, but beds are coming along. One of the friendly surfers said he saw a good school of chunky spotfin croaker. North Torreypines /Del Mar Border. Some big kelp stringers were coming in, but otherwise fair on the weeds.

Keep going guys… Summers a coming…
Butch

Everydog wrote: Fri Apr 10, 2026 11:19 am One of the friendly surfers said he saw a good school of chunky spotfin croaker. North Torreypines /Del Mar Border. Some big kelp stringers were coming in, but otherwise fair on the weeds.

I've been seeing schools of them and corbina at Blacks these past 2 weeks. They were feeding hard today, I think on bean clams. I did not see any sandcrabs.

Thanks, Neuroshima. That's great news.

I took two skunks today,sort of .
I got a spot at the San Elijo campground and but I didn’t fish her I went back to 27th in Del Mar for the first time. . Never saw so much trough but there weren’t any fish in it . So wanting to catch a fish I went down to 11th which hardly ever misses . It was pretty churn up but I got bites . I wanted to catch something in on the full length gulp sand worm but clearly little fish were just pulling it . A shorter piece would have hooked but I persisted with full length . Caught nothing ! Beautiful day out here . Crabs not big enough yet and grass was good . Parking was good at 27th at about 3:30 and 11th street at about 5:00