Coronado & Silver Strand Surf
Coronado / Silver Strand · near Coronado / San Diego · San Diego
Fishing
At a glance
- Difficulty
- intermediate
- Best season
- Corbina & croaker summer · perch year-round
Permits and booking
- Licence required
- Yes
- Licence detail
- CA license (16+) required for surf fishing (beaches are not license-exempt like piers). The wide Silver Strand and Coronado beaches are prime surf-fishing sand. Sand crabs are the money bait.
What is here
- Features
- Prime SoCal surf-fishing sand · Corbina & spotfin croaker · Summer surf action · Beautiful Coronado beaches
Worth knowing
- Dogs
- Not permitted
- Good for a first timer
- No
Fishing detail
- Water type
- surf
- Water
- salt
- Methods
- Surf casting · Bait
- Boat
- shore
- Target species
- California corbina · Barred surfperch · Spotfin croaker · Halibut & leopard shark
- Intl tip
- License required (surf fishing isn't pier-exempt). Chase the surf trio — corbina, perch, spotfin croaker — with sand crabs (dig them fresh on the beach). Fish the trough and cuts; go light and stealthy. Summer is prime. Combine with Coronado's beaches and the Hotel del. Rewards patience.
The guide
The wide, gently sloping beaches of Coronado and the Silver Strand are some of Southern California's premier surf-fishing sand …
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Coronado & Silver Strand Surf — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 32.628, -117.134