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Back felt better. Wrap a back brace and let's do some moderate casting in the reefs. Again lost a big one that broke my 1/0 hook, but did land a few sheep over two sessions last weekend. Start with "barely legal" PXL_20230429_213006645.jpg This one is legal for sure PXL_20230430_203031377....

I went to the Shelter island pier last week but it was dead. Out of couple dozens of poles only a few macks and some smelt in 3 hours. I don't know if it's the water temp or something else that is affecting the bite. Gonna try again when the water temp gets above 65.

Took a break from studying for finals and went out on the beach for 2 hours this afternoon, fishing the incoming tide. There were a ton of man-o-wars. It was very slow until ~6 pm, then the bass hit less than 30 seconds after a cast. Got the spotfin shortly after, then it was dead again until i hook...

Cancelled my freshwater plans after the rain. Slept in all morning. Jumped in the water at 9:45(slack tide) calm and empty. Got bit right off. I had a 1/4oz jig on 6lb and 1/2oz jig on 8lb. Crawling them deep in the middle of the bay. I got out at 12:30 cause it got crowded and windy. Ended with 13 ...

I'm going to be moving to New England this fall. With only a few remaining months in SD, I knew that the one thing I absolutely had to do was fish Baja proper. I went once to Gonzaga with a couple friends on a road trip, and two weeks later went with my dad to Loreto via plane. Both trips were great...

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I was out there a couple weeks ago and saw some guy catch a legal halibut on a Lucky craft sardine. I was able to catch a couple small perch on sandcrab flies. I was fishing north Carlsbad north of the power plant

Went by Hogan's Tackle for some fresh lugeworms. Went over to the jetty for a quick 90 min trip. Ended up getting 1 sand bass and 3 spotfins, 2 of the spotfins were a really nice size, I didn't get a pick of them. Had to climb down the rocks to release and didn't have phone on me then. pic.jpg pic.j...

Went back out to the beach after getting a larger setup and boy am I glad I upgraded. Fished the incoming tide, about an hour after peak low. It was slow for a bit, only got that short 12" bass for the first hour. After moving down the beach a little, as the tide was coming up, I hooked onto so...

Really solid Halibut fishing in the bay the last couple of weeks from skiffs, kayak, and shore. Using sardines, smelt, and double rig with underspin and white gulp swimbaits.

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Been fishing fiesta island on the way home from work the past month for the magic hour around sunset and and catching a few bass on lucky crafts every outing while trying to dodge the weeds, and while not many, I get 3-4 every night with most of them are nice ones in the 12-15 range(the top one was ...

Been a while since I checked the new site. Here's a couple small ones from this past weekend.

Have caught a few dinks in the surf recently. Nothing impressive at all. But today one short hali maybe 20” spit up this thing which i learned is a queenfish. Pretty cool

Walked down to a favorite beach spot to fish a weighted weedless swimbait (shown) along the sand/rock shoreline here, with much smaller surf today. The recent south swells have migrated tons of sand north on my beach, and have unburied the local acres of eel grass - which is all dead and drifting no...

Addition - Sunset Calico Bass May 23

Three more fun little calico bass last night, fishing the weedlines until after sunset missed a few short strikes, one of these days there may be a halibut around ....

I've been on other forums for years, just found this one. None the less, figured I would post something. This was last Sunday, it taped out a tad over 100" (largest male I've seen). Quick measurement and returned to the water, swam away strong. Always good to find a forum, hopefully you guys do...

Hello everyone, my name is Verne and I typically fish from N. OC to N. LA counties. I'm 100% catch and release, and unless shark fishing I usually fish solo. Hope reports from this area are okay on this site, if not please let me know. https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/i119/vdisney/_1.jpg?width...

I was fishing South shores. In the morning between 6:30 and 11:30, caught a lot of bass. Over 15 at least lost count. I used z man TRD bugz Texas rigged. And a trolled chartreuse, white spinnerbait.