Fished the high tide at Salt Creek from 10 to 11am using squid for bait since sandcrabs have been hard to find. Conditions were good...small surf, minimal kelp, and a seal and dolphins swimming in the surfline. Actually saw a corbina and spooked another (the first I have seen in a long time). I needed to find sandcrabs immediately...decided to follow the sandpiper's lead and dig for crabs. Mostly baby micro crabs...found only 5 medium sized ones after 10 minutes of digging. First cast with the crabs resulted in a 12 inch surfperch caught and released. The next cast...BAM...a solid hit with line peeling out and some fun runs (this was no perch!). It also did the typical last minute frantic lunges toward the end of the fight. It was 20 inches and about 2.5 pounds (a little skinny). I considered giving it to some fisherman walking down the beach, but decided to release it to fight again...it swam off like a bullet. If you can find those sandcrabs, the corbina won't be far behind...go get them!!!

Good job on your corbina. I always see you posting on Allcoast. I just went there to do some checking and did not see that you posted there. Your not jumping ship are you? J/K I'm curious though, why don't you use grubs. I've seen posts from you stating "I need to try those grubs." Anyway good job. It looks like they are showing up more and more. Don

Nice! I still need to get me one of those.

yea i saw a few corbina at creek the other day out there paddling out.....i also saw tons of bait fish.....its fun to try and grab them but i never can get them fast enough.

>Fished the high tide at Salt Creek from 10 to 11am using
>squid for bait since sandcrabs have been hard to find.
>Conditions were good...small surf, minimal kelp, and a seal
>and dolphins swimming in the surfline. Actually saw a
>corbina and spooked another (the first I have seen in a long
>time). I needed to find sandcrabs immediately...decided to
>follow the sandpiper's lead and dig for crabs. Mostly baby
>micro crabs...found only 5 medium sized ones after 10
>minutes of digging. First cast with the crabs resulted in a
>12 inch surfperch caught and released. The next
>cast...BAM...a solid hit with line peeling out and some fun
>runs (this was no perch!). It also did the typical last
>minute frantic lunges toward the end of the fight. It was 20
>inches and about 2.5 pounds (a little skinny). I considered
>giving it to some fisherman walking down the beach, but
>decided to release it to fight again...it swam off like a
>bullet. If you can find those sandcrabs, the corbina won't
>be far behind...go get them!!!

Way to go Brumfield!

I'm going to get out there this weekend on the incoming tide with some mussel and soft shells if I can find them. I will most likely hit Harbor Beach in Oceanside.

Aztecwin

Thanks for the kudos you guys! Dondadda...I normally post here, on Allcoast, Pierfishing.com, and rarely on San Diego Saltboard (sdfish.com)...I'm not jumping ship at all! I don't fish grubs mainly because i've been too lazy to go to the store to buy them and am not very familiar with them (how do you rig them with leadhead, etc?)...usually fish with "real" baits. I know that sandcrabs make up about 90% of a corbina's diet, so they always work. However, If grubs work as well on corbina, it would sure save a lot of digging time and hassle!? I did meet a guy from pierfishing.com the other day that caught/released a legal butt from shore on a motoroil grub, so it sounds like they can work well. I never got a legal from shore and would love to! If those grubs can be effective on corbina, I will definitely try them!

I've been fishin grubs quite a bit and have yet to fool a corbina on one (Fooled tons of perch though hehe). I'm sure a ton of guys are going to state otherwise:). I know a lot of guys don't fish down this far but I was walking along Torrey Pines (SD) yesterday on my lunch break and spotted 10 corbina, the biggest being about 4.5lbs (IMO), I wasn't fishin, so I didn't have my glasses on but it seems like there's alot of life down here. As far as grubs go, I usually buy MOJO brand 1.5-2" grubs and fish them carolina style (1/2-1oz egg sinker----bead-----swivel------4lb leader-----grub) my favorite color is motoroil red with goldflakes, green motoroil works pretty good too(Kalins also makes some High quality grubs). Good tip on following the birds, I'm itching to catch a corbina (hell its been @ 3 weeks since I foul hooked my first of the year) and I know a nice size sandcrab will score me a fish (since all of the crabs I saw yesterday were about a 1/4" long)

But anyhow good job on the corbina..........

Tight Lines...............

I totally agree about the sand crabs. You can't beat them when there plentiful. Plus they stay on nicely cast after cast. I'm a newbie to this board. Just started snooping around here the last couple of weeks. I like what I see. Especially the freshwater board. I dig fining new areas to fish largemouth. Anyway, I have to get out more and do some fishin. I already blew it and missed Fongsters tourney. Later, Don