SHOREBOUND SERIES: TWO SURE-FIRE SPOTS FOR BIG WINTER SURF PERCH

[BD STAFF]

While many summer surf fish go on vacation during winter, surfperch are still hard at work looking for a safe place to feed and spawn. Most of the largest perch I’ve ever seen have come in winter when cold water and big surf forces most surf fish off the beach. Unlike corbina and spotfin croaker who move into bays and estuaries, perch hunker down near structure and fatten up in cold water just before the spawn.

While most of our fisheries are slow during the winter, how do you scratch your fishing itch?
Big winter perch are waiting!

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[Steve Williams]

Here in South Oxnard, CA I prefer to fish in colder weather as the Surf Perch are definitely much larger but not as many, just quality 12-16in. Also will fish Central Coast at this time of year.
Tight Lines All!