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Fished north Mission Beach this morning. Got my line in the water by 6:30 and just wrapping up now at 9:30. Winds picked up as the tide started to recede, which makes it feel like a grind, which tells me it’s time to go home.

Pretty decent conditions today. Choppy water but smaller waves and swell. Not a ton of current, seems to be swirling a bit close to shore. No grass/seaweed, which is always a plus.

As for the fishing, decent perch bite. Caught 8-9, mostly small to medium, and one just large enough to turn into lunch later. The highlights though were some of the “summer species” starting to show up; caught my first guitarfish and corbina of the year, although both were small. The SNGF still pulled and buried like crazy and was a bit of a fight, but the 10” (ish) corbina came in easy. Mussels and lugworms were both working, though it was mussel that pulled in SNGF and corbina. Caught a couple of the little guys on Gulp camo worms.

Great session and thanks for the report! I plan on being near Tower 15 with a buddy tomorrow morning, probably hucking spoons. No issues getting the guitar landed on mono / fluoro I see? What line weight?

kastmaster wrote: Sun Mar 29, 2026 10:22 am Great session and thanks for the report! I plan on being near Tower 15 with a buddy tomorrow morning, probably hucking spoons. No issues getting the guitar landed on mono / fluoro I see? What line weight?

No issues. I’m using 15 pound mono, 15 pound fluoro leader. This was one of the smaller that I’ve caught since last summer, and my son caught a massive one late summer on the same setup. It’s a good fight although other than rays, they’re my least favorite thing to catch (so far).

Good luck tomorrow!

Nice going Joe. Good to see something other than the usual perchies.

Nice fishing.. As Neuroshima said in his post… Summers coming….
Butch