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Title: Beach Fishin' Long Beach
Post by: ctwiggs1 on August 19, 2020, 12:34:27 PM: Anyone done it? We'll be down in Bay Center this weekend and I'm thinking about making the drive to Long Beach to do some casting. What should I be taking? Buzz bombs/spoons for salmon and bait for perch?

TIA! :)

Curtis
Title: Re: Beach Fishin' Long Beach
Post by: syoungs on August 22, 2020, 10:26:59 PM: I love it!
I use a simple 2-4oz weight on the bottom of a crappie spreader rig, with berkly gulp sandworms in red and camo.
Really helpful to scout good areas of structure at low tide for the perch. I try to fish the 3 hours leading to high tide, and the first hour of the outgoing. Seems to be slower the rest of the time.

Got some sand weights at bobs last trip i really like. Thry are a holloe triangle with little nubs to help dig in. They work awesome.
Title: Re: Beach Fishin' Long Beach
Post by: ctwiggs1 on August 24, 2020, 07:11:56 AM: Well, made it down there for some fairly decent sustained winds. That sent my whole "you guys make some sand castles, I'll be right back" plan right out the window. I think my poor kids made it about 15 minutes on the beach chasing the seagulls before we said "screw this, time for some cocoa" :chuckle:

Thanks for all the advice guys. I'll be trying again another time!
Title: Re: Beach Fishin' Long Beach
Post by: 7mmfan on August 24, 2020, 08:06:35 AM: Quote from: ctwiggs1 on August 24, 2020, 07:11:56 AM
Well, made it down there for some fairly decent sustained winds. That sent my whole "you guys make some sand castles, I'll be right back" plan right out the window. I think my poor kids made it about 15 minutes on the beach chasing the seagulls before we said "screw this, time for some cocoa" :chuckle:

Thanks for all the advice guys. I'll be trying again another time!

We were in Long Beach Thursday and Friday, it was pretty rough out there!
Title: Re: Beach Fishin' Long Beach
Post by: ctwiggs1 on August 24, 2020, 08:29:02 AM: Yeah 15 minutes might have been an exaggeration. It didn't last long. Willapa clamming on Saturday went much better.