Anyone else get some today...?

[Piggity]

Possibly JT. Supposed to surf with a few buddies but not sure what time, sometimes they flake. Of more concern is my knee, major tweakage today and not even sure how it happened. Maybe it was the from making burritos. Fark.

[ate'em]

Jtran-
south OC its worth hitting up T-street IMHO. grew up surfing there so I am maybe biased but its a quality wave, good long or shortboard. crowds sometimes, like everywhere, def not secret in any way. It is pretty reliable, surfable waves more often than most spots other than trestles.

And on the side, being landlocked these days myself, its been really cool watching your stoke progress with surfing. Reminds me so much of why I look forward to every session I can get out in the water. C-bad is a good good place to be. Just wait till you pull in to your first tube! Awesome...

[Ottime]

Bumped into Fat Bastard in the bath house at the hook. Yeah, I know, sounds shady. Anyway, the surf was pretty much firing all morning. So pumping right now in town. And only like 40 guys out (at one peak). Must have been 500 folks in the water between Rock View and Capitola. Sure, that is over a mile of point break, but still, wow. I could understand why when the sets came through. The hook was running anywhere from waist high to a few feet OH. Clean, lined up, loooong period waves. Looked like so much fun. Me and the little guy pretty much charged the shore break, built sand castles and worked on sharing. Good times. Hope you picked off a few FB.

[zion zig zag]

I'm in Costa Rica and today was my first day surfing. This shit will wear you out. My son actually got outside and caught a real wave. I stayed inside with the whitewater. I got up and rode to the beach on my first try but it didn't get much better in the next 3 hours. Strangely, it was popping up that got hard as I got tired. I just got slower and slower to get up. Beer now, try again tomorrow.

[PowerWhore7]

^^ nice! keep at it ^^


Sunday in The OC saw perfect weather, pumping surf and every fucking kook in CA in the water - including myself .

Checked from T-street to trail 6 and I have never seen that many people in the water or a longer line @ San-O, finally settled on State Park for the mid-morning session and then hit Salt Creek for the afternoon session. State Park had overhead closeout destruction sets with a couple of corners if you were in the right place but it was just me & one other dude so I dealt with it. Salt Creek was fucking sick, overhead A-frames from the point to gravels but HOLY FUCK it was crowded, I just brought my flippers and body whomped for a couple of hrs. Good day to be alive.....

Salt Creek

[Ottime]

Strangely, it was popping up that got hard as I got tired. I just got slower and slower to get up. Beer now, try again tomorrow.

Been surfing over 25 years and the same holds true. It makes all the difference though, as standing up is the first thing you have to do and everything else follows. Stumble, and even if you do get up, you are already falling behind. Keep at it as PW7 said. It only gets better.

PW7, I don't know Salt Creek all that well, but that does not look all that crowded. It looks like 20 plus a sponge on the inside. Is there more that is out of frame? Just comparing that to even the average days I have surfed Uppers, or watching the Hook today.

Anyway, would have been hard to avoid crowds in SC today with 25 knot plus NW pretty much everyone was kept in town.

[PowerWhore7]

Been surfing over 25 years

This probably means we see things a little different, what I see as crowded as fuck, you might see as shooting fish in a barrel. I know you, you are that guy who is in the right place at the right time all the fucking time . And I am usually chasing my tail around and getting lucky here and there, but I am in fairly good shape and have a low IQ so I have hope for myself.

PW7, I don't know Salt Creek all that well, but that does not look all that crowded. It looks like 20 plus a sponge on the inside. Is there more that is out of frame? Just comparing that to even the average days I have surfed Uppers, or watching the Hook today.

The pictures are from South-North and the best overall shot I had, excuse my subpar equipment and photog skills.

The point and furthest South


Middles & some of Gravels


Best overall I had


and some shenanigans

[Long duc dong]

PW7, I don't know Salt Creek all that well, but that does not look all that crowded. It looks like 20 plus a sponge on the inside. Is there more that is out of frame? Just comparing that to even the average days I have surfed Uppers, or watching the Hook today.

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From the photo it does not look bad, but I'm sure it is deceptive. Salt Creek is one of the most crowded spots around. It deals with wind better than HB/NB, and is pretty much of a swell magnet. I don't like going there because of the crowds, which are not as spread out as at Uppers/Cottons. Salt Creek is up there with 54th street in terms of being the most crowded and competitive spots in OC. Not as bad as Lowers, but still prett crowded. I agree about that photo, it makes it look deceptively mellow.

Surfed Saturday evening in Newport, and got rewarded. It was bouncy and shoulder high, not great but more fun than I thought it would be. One of those days where you put on your wetsuit and get rewarded. I surfed 530 to about 7 and grabbed every bump that came my way. 54th street was much less crowded than usual, as I think everyone assumed it was cut to shreds. The crowd filled in as the evening went on, as people started to show up for glassoff.

Sunday I surfed Cottons/Uppers. I surfed barbedwire's, which is the spot between those two. It was glassy, and shoulder high to overhead. It was shifty, but still really fun. Some of the shoulder high ones were wrapping really nicely, and I was getting 50-80 yard lefts off of my favorite peak. It was crowded, but pretty spread out. It was one of those days where I was pretty in tune, and seemed to get wave after wave despite the crowd (no snaking) which made it fun. Truly a great session, I'm rarely that in tune. As the day went on, it got bigger, I surfed from 145 to 430, but my arms were dead, and I had to leave.

The water has gotten warmer, I wore a long sleeved spring both days, and was warm enough the whole time.

Warm water, south swells....I love summer in OC.

EDIT: Today is a really tough day to be in the office. I find myself dreaming of Cottons, wondering just how good it is. Hopefully some of you non-office types will get the goods today. Sufline is calling south OC 4-6+.

[Piggity]

Caught a few fun ones today. Me thinks yesterday was slightly more fun due to the windswell making it more consistent. Definitely a few fun ones pushing through today, I bet top spots like trestles are much mo better than what I surfed, so take my report with a grain of salt.

[zion zig zag]

Caught an outside wave today now that it's a little smaller. It was like getting beat with a bat and rubbed with sandpaper for 30 minutes for that 15 seconds of awesomeness. I was surprised how far out "outside" is. Spent. It's hard for a 40 yo to learn new shit. Mi ijo is killing it though, he traded in the 8 footer for a 6 footish board.

[PowerWhore7]

Pretty fun day today, couldn’t emotionally deal with the Trestles mayhem so I decided to head down to Trails where I knew it would be empty. There were some crossed up peaks and well overhead sets that came through but the real treat was the solitude and the dolphins fucking killing it. I must have backed off 3 or 4 waves and gave the dolphins their space as they cruised down the face having more fun than me.

Hit State Park in the afternoon for some overhead barrel/destruction sets, good times for sure....

Trail 1


Most of South County breaking at once

[PedPro]

Swell was a little slow to build over my weekend trip south but will go down in the logbook as WELL worth the effort. Sunday morning finally saw overhead waves for the patient early riser in ventura, with high-speed carving/avoidance around 50-something LBers every 12-13 minutes when the SW sets showed; saturday afternoon was sleeper variable wind, stomach-high session in front of pavillions(vent. pt. ?) with two others, fri am session at pismo southside pier with windswell/background s hemi mix with surprisingly aggro working-guy crowd to make me earn the handful of sets that came through and set up.

I always hit up SC at dawn or dusk and have never found crowds to be an issue, though can imagine from parking lot and speaking with others how crazy it gets. Have fond memories of paddling out at dawn with the smell of rich breakfast food wafting down from the ritz, made me super hungry in the lineup. Always eat at taco loco in laguna more as a tradition.

[jtran10]

Went out last night at Terramar, and this morning before work at Tamarack. Both times the tide wasn't ideal (4.5 feet last night, 3.5-4 feet this morning), and it was really noticeable, especially considering the good wave/crowd ratio. Had a couple meh waves last night, and 1 decent left this morning. Was in position to catch a big set wave right this morning, got onto the board, then was going down the fast faster than I'm used to and completely lost my balance and feel backward. Besides that, most waves that broke this morning were just big close outs.

May take the LB out tonight to battle the evening high tide

[Ksyrium]

powerwhore7 - staying at hotel above salt creek, taking a lesson this afternoon. Is salt creek too crowded for a complete newbie to go out on his own? hoping to rent a board and get out wed/thur.

any advice would be appreciated

[Ottime]

^^^I'd say just go for it, and stay out of the way. You don't need to be going for the better peaks, so sometimes crowds are not an issue. I also imagine there are others like you in that area.

PW7, I like that you take so many pics. I never carry my camera with me when I go surfing. Too afraid of the random break in.

So, your additional pics make Salt Creek look a bit more crowded, especially the shenanigans one. Where is Trails? Not familiar with that. And, no, I'm not always in the right place at the right time, but I do try. I still prefer solitude over crowds. Even when it feels like shooting fish in a barrel, all that hassle and dodging is no fun.

OTOH, I got quite a few shots of the Hook and Shark's the past few days. Slowly weeding through. them. Speaking of crowds, I saw many of the best waves get wasted, either unridden, or someone too deep chasing it until the last moment, and so on. I call it crowd confusion. At a certain point the crowd gets so thick that waves get missed.

And the craziest thing I saw yesterday was someone coming around the bottom of a cranking lined up wave, and instead of driving into an off the top of some sort, the surfer just worked on a stall, looking all goofy and awkward so he could attempt, and fail a 360, as the wave moved on and barreled for the next 20 yards, and then grind across the reef at head high for the next 100. I don't understand. Sure, 360s are fine, but if I was surfing in at a crowded point, and got myself into one of the better waves, I would go for a crank and a tube, and then, maybe, try a 360 some where after my fifth turn.

Wife is home in a few hours and looks like I should get a session in tonight. Looking forward to it.

[Piggity]

Jtran, closeouts? Low tide coming in right now and I'm about to head there, hoping no skunkage. Bringing my fishy shortboard shape, chemistry beaker, got some new fins for it. Some Stretch Tri-Quads, so gonna set the Beaker up as a Quad instead of a tri, we'll see how she goes.

Ksyrium, like ottime said main thing is have fun and try to stay out of the way. A smile and a sorry go a long way. Never ditch your board, bear hug it if you have too.

[jtran10]

piggity, closeouts at tamarack this morning. Terramar has the reef so should be good. Enjoy!

[PowerWhore7]

powerwhore7 - staying at hotel above salt creek, taking a lesson this afternoon. Is salt creek too crowded for a complete newbie to go out on his own? hoping to rent a board and get out wed/thur.

any advice would be appreciated

Yeah man just go for it like Ottime said, most of the people in the water are on the Ritz Carlton blue foam board anyway .

PW7, I like that you take so many pics. I never carry my camera with me when I go surfing. Too afraid of the random break in.

Sweet thanks, I have been waiting for the “fuckoff jong with your shitty pictures" reply for a while now . Trails is south of the power plant below the bluffs, there are 6 trails in all and if the swell is right it can be lots of fun. Mostly you go there to camp and get away from everyone though....


Here are some shots from today at Trestles, surfed middles and it was still well overhead but definitely not as clean or lined up. Lowers on the other hand, was fucking pumping!

[Piggity]

Wow, looks fun! Tomorrow maybe?

Gotta run but here's a quicky, maybe post a few others little bit later

[Piggity]

[PowerWhore7]

^^ damn dude, lined up empty lefts huh? Might have to make a trip south....

[Ottime]

Crazy how clean it is. We had 35 knot west winds around 4 PM yesterday. Still, got tucked behind a headland just north of town just before sunset. Crowd ranged from 3 to 10. Not bad. Wind swell is 12@11 right now. S lookin like 2.3@17. I like that wind swell.

Speaking of which it always seems like we get wind when a solid south comes in. Which sucks. And then we get wind swell. Next week will likely be calm and no wind swell.

[jtran10]

I finally got mine with this swell last night. Headed to the beach with my funboard and shortboard to make the call after watching some waves. High tide mushing things out a good bit, so took out the funboard and was it ever the right call. Winds were calm, waves consistent and about chest high, and only a couple other people out. With the super high tide and swell the backwash off the rocks/cliff inside creates a super fast and fun wall on the inside, and conditions were lining up to connect the outside peak with the inside section. Had a bunch of great lefts, and a couple fun rights too.

Contemplated calling it an hour + in to the session to save energy for this morning, but ended up staying out another hour and sleeping in today. Glad I did. Winds are way up this morning.

[Piggity]

We had 35 knot west winds around 4 PM yesterday.

I think the windswell in south SD is on the rise as a result, we're thankful for the sacrifice. The NW/SW combo made Sunday/Monday really fun down here.

PW, that's about 100 yards south of cardiff reef and doesn't normally do that. Usually a nice NW Windswell for that spot, but damn that wave looked inviting. I was just worried no lefts like that one would roll through again. Still had an empty peak to myself though

Now fer today, headed out on the low tide for some punchy lefts.

[Piggity]

Upon further investigation, Pt. Loma Buoy starting bumping up again this morning around 5:30am, was around 3-4' earlier and now readings 5.5-6'@15 and should still be filling in. Torrey Pines outer buoy is around 5.5@15 and also on the rise. Me likey, be back later with a report