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Postcards from the Sand: 01 It's Here.... — THE SEASON BEGINS The alarms are getting set earlier. Fly boxes are getting reorganized. Work meetings are being planned around tides. You know what that means. Corbina season is here. The first few weeks of the season have given us plenty of reasons to be optimistic. Fish are showing up on beaches throughout Southern California, backs are pushing through the skinny water, and every tide cycle seems to bring another report of someon

OFF THE SAND — GULF COAST GRIND Sometimes the salt pulls you in a different direction. This time, it wasn’t Pacific sand or tailing corbina — it was muddy flats, oyster shells, and redfish with shoulders down on the Gulf. This trip had been high on the list ever since I caught the saltwater bug. There’s something about redfish and black drum — the way they move, the water they haunt, the brute way they eat — that gets in your head and stays there. Lucky for me, one of my best

Postcards from the Sand — 2025 Season Recap As the tides shift and summer slips away, it feels right to stop, breathe, and take stock of...

Los Angeles County: September 01 – September 07, 2025 Last week was mostly a bust. Early Week (Mon–Tue): The tides looked good on paper,...

Los Angeles County: August 25 – August 31, 2025 The week split its mood — starts full of promise and ends quiet and cold. Early Week...

This week on the sand was a study in extremes. LA gave us both silence and fireworks — a couple days of fish everywhere but not eating,...

Big surf. Flat light. Lockjawed beans. LA was a heartbreaker — miles walked, shots taken, hooks pulled, nothing to hand. Ventura gave...

THE GOOD, THE BAD, 'N THE UGLY Another week in the bean trenches — highs, lows, and everything in between. LA County gave us fire on...

THE SETUP FELT RIGHT. THE FISH HAD OTHER PLANS. This week gave us everything: thick refusals, a day of glory, and enough whiplash to keep...

Tides lined up. The rest made you earn it. We had those deep pre-dawn lows and a strong mid-morning push — the kind of movement that...

“This wasn’t a week for heroes. It was for the patient — the ones posted up in the trough, eyes peeled, waiting on a single tell. A twitch. A tail. A shift in the sand. You couldn’t cast at shadows — you had to cast at intention. And when it lined up… it was worth the grind.”