HMB Poplar Beach Report

Took the wife and dog for a walk at Poplar Beach. Squeezed in a some perching time from 11am-12:30pm. Waves were about 3-4ft instead of the usual 6-8ft. Caught a bunch of little ones and kept couple 10-11in Barred perch. They seem to like the Gulp 2" camo sandworms.

Cool!
I used to live a couple blocks from there and caught many a striper there. See anyone trying for them?

Cool!
I used to live a couple blocks from there and caught many a striper there. See anyone trying for them?

Not today, but I have seen guys fishing for stripers, including myself. Only caught a short one once. Usually this stretch of beach is very hard to fish due to the big waves.

Thanks for the report and picture fishmonger.

Right on ! Nice Perch

Right on.  Used to fish that beach very often with my pops when I was younger. 

Thanks for the report.

Went back out to HMB this past Tuesday after a short camping trip to Tahoe. I was motivated by OVillanueva's HMB youtube video. I fished Redondo Beach right next to Poplar Beach around 12n with high tide around 1:15pm. I immediately hook a 10" Redtail, then a monster Barred perch around 14-16". It looked weird because it had such a huge body and a small head, like a Small Mouth bass. I was so jazzed holding up my personal best perch. Then I saw couple baby perch drop to the sand and thinking WTHeck. I'm guessing the trauma of being hooked and then dragged on to the beach induced labor. In my panic to remove the hook and get her and the babies back to the water, I forgot to take a photo(so it didn't happen). That was a first for me and still kicking myself for not getting a pic. I did catch another 12" Barred, also pregnant. All perch were released and hopefully gave birth to many little ones.