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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Re: Tuesday Night Soup Kitchen Report! (5/3)
« on: May 04, 2022, 01:55:01 PM »
I guess it will be a while before i go down south again
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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Re: Tuesday Night Soak (4/19)
« on: April 21, 2022, 07:43:05 PM »
The current has been pretty bad down in SD county the last couple months. Nice to see another shark hit the sand though
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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Re: 4/17 OC Bat Rays
« on: April 19, 2022, 04:43:53 PM »No kidding, I wish we saw that bat that big at the SNBF-XV!
Well done boss and it looks like you're doing better than many of us lately. I've been having a hell of a time getting bigger critter bites this year.
Bravo sir!
The surf fishing is improving a lot so I'm sure we'll see you guys getting on more fish very soon.
But let's hope for no more bat rays
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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / 4/17 OC Bat Rays
« on: April 18, 2022, 08:21:53 AM »
Went to an OC beach that started producing some fish about a month ago for some morning fishing. Started fishing at the 2nd half of the incoming tide. Surf was small and almost no salad.
Had baits out by a little after 7am. Not too long into the soak, I notice my dad's rod get hit and the line slacks up. I pick it up and wind to set the hook and hand it to my dad. Fish made a good first run and walked him up and down the beach. After about a 20 minute fight on his spinner, he finally gets it into the surf for me to grab it and it's the biggest bat ray I've seen in person. I could barely even move it. I measure it with the rod and when I got home it came out to 57 inches wide. Got some pictures of it and slid her back into the surf.
Some guys next us fishing light line were catching fish after that, a couple croakers and small corbinas as well as a couple small bat rays. After they left a kid came by to fish the same spot and caught 3 more small rays.
Around 11 or 11:30am my dad gets another biter. Quick uneventful fight and it's another bat ray but not as big, somewhere in the 40-45 inch range. One more big run from a ray that dropped the bait right when he touched the rod. I couldn't get bit to save myself, my baits sat untouched the whole time.
No more bites after that and we left at 1:30. Wish something more interesting and toothier would have bit, but at this point we'll take anything after having such a slow start to the year. Fishing is definitely improving though.
Had baits out by a little after 7am. Not too long into the soak, I notice my dad's rod get hit and the line slacks up. I pick it up and wind to set the hook and hand it to my dad. Fish made a good first run and walked him up and down the beach. After about a 20 minute fight on his spinner, he finally gets it into the surf for me to grab it and it's the biggest bat ray I've seen in person. I could barely even move it. I measure it with the rod and when I got home it came out to 57 inches wide. Got some pictures of it and slid her back into the surf.
Some guys next us fishing light line were catching fish after that, a couple croakers and small corbinas as well as a couple small bat rays. After they left a kid came by to fish the same spot and caught 3 more small rays.
Around 11 or 11:30am my dad gets another biter. Quick uneventful fight and it's another bat ray but not as big, somewhere in the 40-45 inch range. One more big run from a ray that dropped the bait right when he touched the rod. I couldn't get bit to save myself, my baits sat untouched the whole time.
No more bites after that and we left at 1:30. Wish something more interesting and toothier would have bit, but at this point we'll take anything after having such a slow start to the year. Fishing is definitely improving though.
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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Re: Soup Kitchen Report (4/5)
« on: April 06, 2022, 08:51:46 PM »
Washing machine water has been pretty common this year as well as really strong current. Only nice thing was no salad in the surf for a long time but i guess that's coming to an end.
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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Re: 4/2 grunion run surf fishing
« on: April 04, 2022, 06:46:57 PM »First post here
Got to the beach a little before 8pm on an incoming tide. Conditions seemed nice at first, very small surf and not much grass on my practice casts, but after I put my first bait in the water is when i realized the current was pretty bad. 10oz sputnik was getting swept away. Did my best to deal with it though and finally managed to get a bait to stick. Not too long after, the grunion started making a showing.
Just as my dad and I got done talking about how we would probably walk away empty handed because of how pitiful the fishing has been this year even with all this bait around right now, I look up at my rod and watch it get hammered. Jump up and grab the rod, and after the first headshake I could tell it was a soupfin. After a hard but quick fight on 100lb casting tackle, my dad got a hold of her tail and got her onto the beach. Took the hook out, got some terrible pictures and released it. Didn't measure it with a tape but it was just over a wingspan so it was about 70-71 inches. Smaller bait was the ticket, half a mackerel. Took a break from the whole huge mackerels, whole bonitos, bullet tunas, and hand sized bonito heads and yellowtail heads with a 10oz spider weight.
Fished another bait after that and got bit again but this time it bit right behind the hook and left just the head. Big puncture marks and the head was sliced in half. One more bait after that to soak while we packed up and then we left.
Nice to get on one again, the only other fish I have caught this year was a big leopard shark on new year's day. After that, absolutely nothing. And I've been fishing 1-2 times a week every single week everywhere between San Diego and Los Angeles county. And I thought last year was bad.
Don't know how to insert a picture but if I figure it out I will put one in.
Surf: 1-2ft, tide: high, bait: mackerel, approximately 70 inches, county: San Diego, don't know the moon phase.
Welcome to the boards boss and we totally feel the pain for a slow year! Congrats on getting the 3rd shark on the 2022 board! By this time we should have seen 20+ ON the boards.
Congrats again and welcome! Thanks for the post and hopefully this gets everyone fired up to keep hitting the surf.
This year has definitely been painfully slow but I think things will be picking up. A popular OC spot started producing a few soupfins and big rays and surprisingly a small sevengill within the last few weeks. Just a matter of putting in the time in at the right spots.
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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / 4/2 grunion run surf fishing
« on: April 03, 2022, 10:38:36 AM »
First post here
Got to the beach a little before 8pm on an incoming tide. Conditions seemed nice at first, very small surf and not much grass on my practice casts, but after I put my first bait in the water is when i realized the current was pretty bad. 10oz sputnik was getting swept away. Did my best to deal with it though and finally managed to get a bait to stick. Not too long after, the grunion started making a showing.
Just as my dad and I got done talking about how we would probably walk away empty handed because of how pitiful the fishing has been this year even with all this bait around right now, I look up at my rod and watch it get hammered. Jump up and grab the rod, and after the first headshake I could tell it was a soupfin. After a hard but quick fight on 100lb casting tackle, my dad got a hold of her tail and got her onto the beach. Took the hook out, got some terrible pictures and released it. Didn't measure it with a tape but it was just over a wingspan so it was about 70-71 inches. Smaller bait was the ticket, half a mackerel. Took a break from the whole huge mackerels, whole bonitos, bullet tunas, and hand sized bonito heads and yellowtail heads with a 10oz spider weight.
Fished another bait after that and got bit again but this time it bit right behind the hook and left just the head. Big puncture marks and the head was sliced in half. One more bait after that to soak while we packed up and then we left.
Nice to get on one again, the only other fish I have caught this year was a big leopard shark on new year's day. After that, absolutely nothing. And I've been fishing 1-2 times a week every single week everywhere between San Diego and Los Angeles county. And I thought last year was bad.
Don't know how to insert a picture but if I figure it out I will put one in.
Surf: 1-2ft, tide: high, bait: mackerel, approximately 70 inches, county: San Diego, don't know the moon phase.
Got to the beach a little before 8pm on an incoming tide. Conditions seemed nice at first, very small surf and not much grass on my practice casts, but after I put my first bait in the water is when i realized the current was pretty bad. 10oz sputnik was getting swept away. Did my best to deal with it though and finally managed to get a bait to stick. Not too long after, the grunion started making a showing.
Just as my dad and I got done talking about how we would probably walk away empty handed because of how pitiful the fishing has been this year even with all this bait around right now, I look up at my rod and watch it get hammered. Jump up and grab the rod, and after the first headshake I could tell it was a soupfin. After a hard but quick fight on 100lb casting tackle, my dad got a hold of her tail and got her onto the beach. Took the hook out, got some terrible pictures and released it. Didn't measure it with a tape but it was just over a wingspan so it was about 70-71 inches. Smaller bait was the ticket, half a mackerel. Took a break from the whole huge mackerels, whole bonitos, bullet tunas, and hand sized bonito heads and yellowtail heads with a 10oz spider weight.
Fished another bait after that and got bit again but this time it bit right behind the hook and left just the head. Big puncture marks and the head was sliced in half. One more bait after that to soak while we packed up and then we left.
Nice to get on one again, the only other fish I have caught this year was a big leopard shark on new year's day. After that, absolutely nothing. And I've been fishing 1-2 times a week every single week everywhere between San Diego and Los Angeles county. And I thought last year was bad.
Don't know how to insert a picture but if I figure it out I will put one in.
Surf: 1-2ft, tide: high, bait: mackerel, approximately 70 inches, county: San Diego, don't know the moon phase.