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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Re: Halloween Biters 10/31

« on: December 11, 2022, 08:18:39 PM »

I've seen Shark Huggers before, but you might be the first Shark Kisser!   LOL


Nicely done boss on the Halloween treat!

I make love to every soupfin i catch if i remember to

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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Halloween Biters 10/31

« on: December 10, 2022, 08:43:47 AM »

This was a trip i had forgotten about for awhile but it's my last report for now because things died down once november came around other than a couple missed fish here and there.

Got to the beach earlier than usual with my friend and it was fairly grassy. Had to recast every 10-30 minutes or so but we did our best to fish through it. Tide was outgoing till around 11pm so any biters we would have would be later in the night.

Grass was clearing up and around 9pm my friend's rod goes off screaming with the first biter of the night. Was hoping it would be his first soupfin but it wasn't fighting good so started to think leopard. I go to land it in the skinny water and sure enough it has spots. Depressing. Took a couple pics and sent it back hoping that didn't happen again.

Couple hours later i cast a whole small bonito but i decided to only flick it about 40 yards into the first set of waves since longer 80ish yard casts were producing nothing. About 30 minutes after peak low my rod gets hammered on the short cast. Fighting pretty bad so i was not happy because i thought it was another leopard. Once it's in the skinny it started pulling harder and turned into a soupfin, just a small one at around 5.5ft or so. Got a nice picture with it and sent her back.

One last biter on my friends rod that spit the bait on the low incoming tide, but no more fish.

The bite in general died after this for a while. Although lately i have had a few opportunities at fish, just missed the bites.

10/31/22, Soupfin, *66 inches approx, Female, Bonito, 2ft surf, 65 degree water, low tide, waxing crescent moon, SD county

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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Re: The Curse Is Real 12/7/2022

« on: December 08, 2022, 07:11:39 PM »

Hell yeah, good to see you guys getting on em again

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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Low Tide Biters 10/29

« on: November 28, 2022, 08:45:53 AM »

Headed up to the north la area that has been producing for me with a buddy to fish casted baits. We got to the spot near the peak low, some salad on the beach but none in the water so it was very fishable.

Baits were out at low tide and since bait pickers hadn't been too bad i gave mine a longer soak. At about hour in to soaking i get a screaming run and then it stops. Wind into it to pick up the slack and it's still there. Fighting pretty hard and made a couple good runs before i got into the surf. After a few attempts to tail grab it i got the fish into ankle deep water and it's by far my biggest soupfin and probably the biggest I've seen in person. At least 6.5ft and ridiculously fat. Definitely pregnant so we took only 2 or 3 pics and sent her back.

Got another bait out and after another 40ish minute soak I'm bit again. My friend has never caught a soupfin and I've caught quite a few so i decide to hand him this one. Once it's in the surf i go to leader it and i was pretty surprised when i see it's a small black seabass. Kept it in the wash while handling it and got a not so good picture of my friend with it. Took a while to release because when a wave would come in, the fish would turn around and charge the beach with the wave. Finally got it to swim off after a few minutes but releasing sharks is much easier.

Soaked for a few more hours for no biters. Both fish came withing a couple hours of low tide once the tide started coming in. Also learned my lesson to never hand off a fish again.

10/29/2022, Soupfin, *78 inch approx, female, mackerel, 2-4ft surf, 66 degree water, low incoming, waxing crescent, los angeles county

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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Re: Soaking the SK (11/16)

« on: November 17, 2022, 06:50:35 PM »

That beach has been pretty hit or miss but i had a couple good nights there this year. Bouncing from spot to spot has been the most productive way of getting bit down there, sometimes fishing 3 beaches in the same night

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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Re: Sevengill Soup 10/25

« on: November 10, 2022, 09:42:56 AM »

Getting it done, wish I could get out more.  Congrats my man, here are the critters

Thanks for always posting pics, appreciate it

Can't wait for my new free rod haha

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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Sevengill Soup 10/25

« on: November 10, 2022, 06:40:19 AM »

Got off work early enough to make the drive up to a ventura county spot with a friend. Got to the beach about an hour before dark, conditions were good other than a lot of salad on the beach. Tide was incoming so we took some time to throw all the salad high up on the beach so it wouldn't end up in the water again later.

Got done with cleaning the beach and baits were out by sundown. On my 2nd soak, i get a screaming run that only lasts for a second or two before it stopped. Bait was completely gone, so i put on another mackerel and casted again. 5-6 minutes later and another screamer. This one sticks and it's a definite soupfin. Get it landed after a few minutes to see it's my first male and a pretty good one for a male too. Couple pics and back it went

Couple hours go by with no biters until right as the tide started to shift to outgoing. My rod tip goes crazy but no clicker and then it stopped. Wind on it thinking it's just some kelp until it hits the waves and starts thrashing at the surface. My buddy goes out to leader it and it's a little 5.5ft sevengill and my first one of the year. No fight at all but still cool to see one so early before winter. Got a handful of pictures and then took a release video of it trying to eat me.

My friend wasn't really getting bit until he had one short bite during the outgoing, but nothing landed after the sevengill and then the salad got bad so we decided to pack it up and leave.

10/25/22, soupfin, *71 inch approx, male, mackerel, 1-2ft surf, 67 degree water, incoming, new moon, ventura county

10/25/22, sevengill, *66 inch approx, female, mackerel, 1-2ft surf, 67 degree water, high outgoing, new moon, ventura county

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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Re: Biter on 10/8

« on: November 06, 2022, 09:23:26 AM »

Awesome Boss!  I'll get that up on the list this weekend. 

Nice Soupie and love the reports as I can't buy a bite from a soupie or seven this fall so far.  I did catch a bunch of fresh bait, so that may help over the year-old mackerel from my freezer I've been using.

This fall has been very productive but having fresh bait and timing the tides have been critical in getting bit. This storm we just had seems to have killed the bite but we'll see how things go. If it continues like this and the soupie bite doesnt recover, i think it's time to head a few hours north for winter sevengills on dropped baits

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Saltwater Boat Fishing Reports / Re: Solo swordfish on the inflatable

« on: November 05, 2022, 06:49:22 AM »

That's badass, congrats

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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Re: Biter on 10/8

« on: November 04, 2022, 09:33:30 AM »

Thanks verne. Also water temp was 68 for this one if you want to start adding that

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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Biter on 10/8

« on: November 04, 2022, 08:44:56 AM »

Decided to head down south and got to the beach with my dad around the start of sunset and got baits out right as the sun was going down. Conditions seemed good at first, good incoming tide and minimal salad although that didn't last long.

I only had to wait about half an hour when at around 7:30 my bait gets slammed. Definite soupfin, but half way into the fight it gets lazy but heavy. When we get it into the surf we see why, it's wrapped up like a burrito inside a massive ball of kelp. We land the fish, take it out of the salad monster, took one pic and released it.

Seemed like we were going to be having a pretty productive night, but that was it. After a couple hours the salad started rolling in pretty thick so we packed up a little early and headed home.

I have quite a few other reports that are a little more exiciting than this one on the way as well so stay tuned for those.

10/8/2022, Soupfin, *70 inches approx, female, mackerel, 1-2ft surf, incoming, waxing gibbous, sd county

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General Board / Re: I need some good news...

« on: October 14, 2022, 09:52:12 AM »

It's fall and the soupfin are biting in the surf. Will post reports soon

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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Re: A Lot Of Fish Reports In One

« on: September 11, 2022, 08:18:19 AM »

Thanks a lot for posting the pictures verne. And yeah, if this doesn't motivate any of you enough to hit the surf, i don't know what will

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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Re: A Lot Of Fish Reports In One

« on: September 11, 2022, 07:51:56 AM »

Damn, when do you sleep young man?  Sounds like you've been busy, congrats on the multiple critters.  Email me the pictures and I'll post them if you'd like.

Not much sleeping happens when you fish that much, sometimes i go days without it haha. When you put in that much time with a bait in the water it usually pays off though. And i sent you an email with pics

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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Re: A Lot Of Fish Reports In One

« on: September 10, 2022, 02:27:24 PM »

Will just add the soupfins from 8/13, 8/14, and 8/21 since they are my fish and bit on the surf casted baits.

Soupfin, 8/13, *75 inches, Female, Mackerel, 1-2ft, Incoming tide, Waning Gibbous, LA county

Soupfin, 8/14, *66 inches, Female, Bonito, 1-2ft, Incoming Tide, Waning Gibbous, SD county,

Soupfin, 8/21, *74 inches, Female, Mackerel, 1-2ft, Outgoing Tide, Waning Crescent, SD county

Would also like to add that these three soupfin bit on a water temperature drop as i don't typically have much luck with them in warmer water. Water in the surf was up to 73 degrees and nothing was biting in the surf, all on drops. It then dropped to 66-67 for about a week and they all seemed to come back into the surf for a bit. Went back up to 73ish and haven't caught any soupfin in the surf since. I think adding water temperature to the conditions that are written down in the shark list would be a good addition since it definitely plays a big role in getting bit