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Back to Del Mar yesterday for several hours of afternoon incoming. Pretty good tide for there, if fish are good around 2.5 to 4.5 feet, other times it sets up good. I stopped at H market to buy a few clams and two small squid. The waves weren't too big, but it was super churned up. I caught 1 perch on clams pretty quickly, then switched to a smallish piece of squid, and not too many casts later, hooked a big fish. It ran straight out, and it seemed like I turned him after about 30 yards. I made up about two yards, and it sawed me off. What fish bolts straight out fast for deep water that's much bigger than your typical fish? Not a great fishing day, other than that rush. Lots of bites on the squid, but probably mostly perch and little croaker. I know sharks and rays like it. To me, this fish shot out different from one of those, but still, good guesses. Now seeing some spotfin and corbina.

I was at Del Mar yesterday too, fishing the morning incoming tide. My guess is that it was a corbina. I saw several of them swimming up cuts onto crab beds between 20th and 27th Street.