Spent Sunday at a friend's trailer/beach house on Crystal Cove in Laguna. Good food, friends, football and baseball with the kids, and fishing. Between my son and I we only managed 6 perch. 5 on a 2" Yamamoto Ika tube with my "special" pro-cure/hot sauce oil mix (hah!), and a mini perch on a 3" hammer. All on a slow retrieve. No sandcrabs found. I had a good something (corbina, halibut, small shark?) hooked up and heading out to sea when a breaking wave broke me off. I had inadvertently picked up a reel with 2#, instead of 6# test. Could barely cinch the knots w/o breaking. That evening we saw a whale frolicking right outside the whitewater in probably 10ft of water. One guy said it was scraping barnacles off by rolling in the sand.
#5640, "RE: Crystal Cove Perching" In response to Reply # 1
My friend who owns the house sees lots of fish by the south point, in the surf and in his kayak. Says there's a reef and kelp about 150yds out. Saw some guys working it in a boat. Couldn't fish the point from the sand with the surfers, and I didn't want to brave the cold water in the kayak. The north end has some rocks that look reachable with a long cast, but we didn't venture that far.