Storm ?

[Ccarson]

Hello everyone. Here in So cal we have a costal flood warning where they are predicting 6-7 foot waves during high tide but we are also having minus tides as well. Is this going to be a good time to go hit the beach. I normally hunt waist deep up to the high water mark. Anyone want to meet up and hit some shoreline.

 

[MTJosh]

Good luck. Unfortunately the beaches I scouted only had more fluffy sand. The high tide just pulled more sand off the towel line. Upper slope had some light targets. over 30 crusty zinclons. maybe $1 in clad. Bottom of slope had some gravel starting with mid slope firming but targets still many feet under that area. Just need another 5-20 feet of sand stripped off to make heavy targets start showing. The local beaches are so sanded from over a year of no erosion we need weeks of heavy surf to open things back up. But these waves will help. I did find a few spots with 3-5 foot cuts from above towel line where water rushes back from being splashed up over top lip. Too bad nothing from them as sand under cut fluffy so any good targets already couple feet down. Good luck. Hope you find a pocket

 

[Tom_in_CA]

I agree with MT Josh. Any of the swells coming on CA right now, are ho-hum. They're within norms, not unusual, etc.. So I think the *only* reason you read or heard of a watch alert for "coastal flooding", is probably only because of some very high tides. But those high tides are not being coincided with any particularly un-usual surf/swells.

So if there *is* going to be any erosion (because, of course, flukes occur ALL the time, even in the absence of storms), then it'll be the normal stuff where a) it'll be subtle, and b) you'd have to find those burrs in mother nature's bonnet by driving to multiple beaches to scout (to find any cuts or slopes). But the same can be said of about any time of year.

Maybe I'm just spoiled rotten, I dunno. But I'm waiting for the 15 ft. plus (or 5 ft. plus if from S or SW) to hit us with on-shore howling winds at 6 ft. plus high tides. I'm not being too picky, am I ? haha

 

[jeepGold]

I was at a few beaches yesterday in Orange County and I was excited to hit the low low low tide lines and I did... I got NOTHING...Starting to think that our area is a dry sand, recent drops type of situation.... Going out today and tomorrow as well and hopefully it'll be better. And yes, the sand is soft and mushy.. Very sanded in....

 

[RustyGold]

Too bad. I was hoping for a complete strip of the sanded-in beach. The beaches south of the Huntington Beach pier is so thick with sand I'd swear it's 2' deep. Way too much work for this old man!

 

[Tom_in_CA]

I was at a few beaches yesterday in Orange County and I was excited to hit the low low low tide lines and I did... I got NOTHING...Starting to think that our area is a dry sand, recent drops type of situation.... Going out today and tomorrow as well and hopefully it'll be better. And yes, the sand is soft and mushy.. Very sanded in....

jeep gold: Yup, when the beach is sanded in and sterile, then the ONLY thing these super minus tides do, is give you lots more sterile sand to walk around in, and FIND NOTHING IN. Aargghhh

We need some good storms Where I'm at (monterey bay), we've got beaches that can be affected by any direction of swell: N, NW, W, SW or S. But in So. CA, you guys are best benefited by S and SW or perhaps straight on W. But the moment there's a hint of NW in there, then you get shadowed by Pt. Concepcion, and the Oxnard to Malibu line. But I guess it's all relative to what the acclimated norms are of each beach: Perhaps NW swells (assuming they're big) will create enough slosh effect, even though you're in a shadow ? I've heard that if the swells are NW, then it takes days of back-to-back accumulation effect to erode there. Contrast to S or SW, where a bunch of erosion can occur over a single night.

 

[redcobra8u]

I'm going to give it a try tomorrow am anyway. You never know...I found a small little cut last time this happened weeks ago and it gave up a couple rings. I'll regret not going if I see one of you guys post gold tomorrow lol.

El Niño, I'm waiting......

 

[clv]

Just high tides, no real surf, but some business on the beach did get flooding and a few collage girls from Canada needed to be plucked off the beach when caught in the high tide and the face of a cliff in the San Diego area. Wait for Dec/Jan when the big stuff gets here and gets rid of the overburden that has been building on the beaches since 2008 (last really big action here).

 

[stefen]

There are times when I miss the OC beaches...but here heavy traffic is 3 cars on HWY 101 at the same time (all 2 lanes).

In OC, its a solid parking lot

 

[jeepGold]

At least I still get the warm weather and the hotties in thongs... that alone is better than park hunting as I soon will be until storms do there magic..

 

[redcobra8u]

I did find a 2 ft cut out there SoCal folks. Pulled a 10k band, silver band, silver pendant, plus a junker. As you can see, they've been there awhile.

 

[SeabeeRon]

Good job on being at the right place at the right time!