Perch at Blacks
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Perch at Blacks
Got into some perch and snagged a few shovelnose at Blacks on Sunday. 4 perch on the morning falling tide, and ended the day with a beefy 12 incher.
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Re: Perch at Blacks
I snagged so many last year, the first one I knew it was a SNG and fouled in the tail the way it was fighting. It was about 2 feet long. Second one was smaller but hooked underneath the nose, looking like it was almost a legit eat.Midnightpass wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 9:38 am Nice perch... Those shovels must have been a tussle on the fly rod....
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A tail hooked SNGF IS a handful…Neuroshima wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 1:55 pmI snagged so many last year, the first one I knew it was a SNG and fouled in the tail the way it was fighting. It was about 2 feet long. Second one was smaller but hooked underneath the nose, looking like it was almost a legit eat.Midnightpass wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 9:38 am Nice perch... Those shovels must have been a tussle on the fly rod....
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Re: Perch at Blacks
There's always a few cuts right at the trail to the gliderport, but I tend to find most success near the north trail by the golf course. Interestingly, google photos has a new heatmap feature of where pictures were taken so you can actually see where most of my catches/pics were.
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Re: Perch at Blacks
Typo, meant to say "new."Midnightpass wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:12 am Never heard of the "near heatmap" feature before...
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Dumb question, but what is a cut? I checked out Blacks this evening near the North Trail, it was a low-ish incoming tide. It all looked like smooth beach to me, however, I’m absolutely terrible at finding beach structure.Neuroshima wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 8:50 am There's always a few cuts right at the trail to the gliderport, but I tend to find most success near the north trail by the golf course.
The only exciting moment was seeing the back of something big scurry away in ankle deep water just a few feet away, I think it might have been a shovel nose or a leo. Otherwise a whole lotta nada.
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You guys are brave venturing down to blacks. You may see something you’ll never be able to unsee
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The space in between two sandbars.Rattus wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:33 pmDumb question, but what is a cut? I checked out Blacks this evening near the North Trail, it was a low-ish incoming tide. It all looked like smooth beach to me, however, I’m absolutely terrible at finding beach structure.Neuroshima wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 8:50 am There's always a few cuts right at the trail to the gliderport, but I tend to find most success near the north trail by the golf course.
The only exciting moment was seeing the back of something big scurry away in ankle deep water just a few feet away, I think it might have been a shovel nose or a leo. Otherwise a whole lotta nada.
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Re: Perch at Blacks
Neuroshima, thanks. I had known them as rips or channels, but see its the same concept. I can spot them from elevation but have a very difficult time seeing them on the beach.
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Re: Perch at Blacks
I watch the top of the waves as they come in, and look for where the white foam disappears.
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I also go to https://hdontap.com/#beach and watch the surf cams to "practice" reading the water.
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Re: Perch at Blacks
I've heard humor of group debauchery. Never witness anything in my 6 years of fishing there, almost weekly during corbina season. If it does happen, it must be up against the cliffs and not near the shore and not between the hours of 6-10AM when I usually fish. That's what I like about Blacks, even at high tide, most of the bluffs are still a hundred feet or so from the water line.
With the explosion of OnlyFans, the tide has actually turned a bit in a straight man's favor, with all these influencers trying to create content. Example below. The most uncomfortable I've been is when this old fly angler vacationing from the midwest came up to me, baffled that one could fly fish the surf, holding my sand crab fly above his dingdong.
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Re: Perch at Blacks
I used to surf down there alot back in the day and there were always a few boots, jacket, gloves and scarf guys down there with no pants on yanking the crank that you had to navigate by. Pretty sick and twisted.
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