Surffished Aliso Beach for a few hours in the early morning using sandcrabs for bait. Waded through the creek to hit the north end of the beach. Got caught in a rain squall with thunder and lightning... kept fishing, but the squall turned into a downpour and I got soaked. Decided to bail when the outfall pipe suddenly started pouring out water like a firehose. Cars had to slow down on PCH at the low spot as the water was about 3 feet deep. Only caught/released 3 Barred perch. Who says it doesn't rain in Southern California?!

Hey Brum,

A word of caution! If you're swinging a graphite stick, those things are excellent conductors of electricity. I've never heard of anyone around here getting tagged by lightning but I'm told it happens occationally in the midwest and east coast where thunder showers are common. Its the carbon fibers in the rod that attract the bolts.

Tight Lines!

Aztecwin

Aztecwin, I just had a cheap "saltwater combo" setup that I was using, but the lightning was partly why I finally left. That would really suck to be electrocuted by a lightning bolt hitting the tip of your graphite rod! No two days of fishing are the same.

I was thinking about that this morning when it was raining on LMV- kept picturing the scene from Caddyshack- watch out when Aliso Creek is spewing, the brown trout and Charmin grouper like to run to the ocean when that happens!

Yeah, I was amped to get some more corbina after reading a lot of the posts here, but the rain screwed things up so I got the heck out of there.