Anyone else get some today...?

[Piggity]

surf looks surprisingly fun today, CH-HH combo S and SW making the beaches nice and peaky. I bet OC is really good right now.

[PowerWhore7]

I bet OC is really good right now.

I pretty much had a smile on my face from 10am-12:30pm today...


FKNA there has been like 20 days of HH surf this month so far.

[Long duc dong]

surf looks surprisingly fun today, CH-HH combo S and SW making the beaches nice and peaky. I bet OC is really good right now.

It's definitely hitting here. I probably can't get any this evening, but tomorrow afternoon I should be able to get down to Trestles pretty early. It's supposed to be 3-5 tomorrow and SAT in south county, so it should be fun.

Newport looked good on camera this morning.

[Piggity]

^you guys will be smiling for a while. 1+ weeks worth of waves on the way and a mini-Santa Ana? Some NW? October is one of my favorite months, can't come soon enough

Caught some fun wedges out front tonight, chest high or so but really fun beach break action. Souths usually bypass this sandbar so it was 200+. Got a minty used board today off craigslist, 5'9" chemistry. Didn't know much about them but this board is amazingly easy to surf. Lot more drive than I expected for such a short and kinda sorta fishy shape

[Ottime]

Even got a bit of the S combo up here last night. That was not expected. I started out at a mini ledge that was not getting enough of the nw short period to make it work. This spot needs the nw energy to make it throw, otherwise it is sort of a wave that wants to bowl, but can't. So I ran down the beach a couple football fields and it was chest to head and pretty damn fun. But really, it is Saturday morning I am waiting for. So much more energy in the nw.

[PowerWhore7]

^you guys will be smiling for a while. 1+ weeks worth of waves on the way and a mini-Santa Ana? Some NW? October is one of my favorite months, can't come soon enough

Caught some fun wedges out front tonight, chest high or so but really fun beach break action. Souths usually bypass this sandbar so it was 200+. Got a minty used board today off craigslist, 5'9" chemistry. Didn't know much about them but this board is amazingly easy to surf. Lot more drive than I expected for such a short and kinda sorta fishy shape

Yeah, I read the report and it looks like it should be fun for a while, maybe even some bombs Sun-Mon. I still have yet to figure out which angles work best around here, hell, I barely know which swells to look for. I can’t really figure out where to go on a WNW with a steep angle (which they always seem to be), and I usually just head to North County for any N or NW.

I am however starting to figure out that 5’11” that I just bought. I was having trouble surfing it side to side without just falling off the rail like a goon, but an astute observation by one of friends and an adjustment in my foot position, made all the difference in the world.

gonna go try and get some now...

[Piggity]

So much more energy in the nw.

Agreed, these souths are just enough to keep the arms loose for some NW energy

I usually just head to North County for any N or NW

I'm not really familiar with OC but I think it would be opposite. I think the further North in OC you go, the more shadowed by Point Conception and the islands (channel, catalina and others). Places like Trestles and further south will start to pull in some of the energy. For really steep NW's, like 295-300, you almost have to go down to South San Diego before it even shows. Longer period swell will wrap into places and refracted energy can hit even if it's shadowed. Short period won't wrap, so it also depends on the intervals.

Check out this website, scroll down the page, it will explain it better. http://socalforecast.blogspot.com/20...h-pacific.html

[jtran10]

Great link, thanks Piggity

[Ottime]

excellent link. I particularly like the comments that lead to making fun of costco boards. Can't wait to get mine and paddle out with my son.

SE Papa reading 11@13. SF Bar 5@18. Not sure if that second one is the south energy messing with readings, or if this new swell is starting to fill in. Should be good in the morning. In the meantime, it is pretty clean out and a small south is running. Good times.

[supermodel159]

Thanks for reminding me where I live asshole.

[PowerWhore7]

Sweet link Piggity, me not so dumb anymore, huh-huh.

Another super fun day at Trestles.

A little behind off the point.


Middles, super crowded as usual

[Piggity]

Less words, more angles






Swell angles open up immediately after crossing the border. Cold water year round and a lot more swell, baja is nothing like Slocal.


Supermodel, this your hood?

[Piggity]

How's the NW ottime?

Jtran, little NW and SW combo might make BB a fun option. Those canyons sometimes like to put out some pizza wedge takeoffs and some nice shacks on the inside sand bar, especially if that NW is pulling in there. Any interest in surfing?

[Ottime]

Thought I posted this an hour ago, so this might be a double post.

Anyway, nw showing at head high plus. Mostly a small nw. 5@14 on cdip. sw is showing almost as much size, but expecting that nw to build through the day a bit. Hard to really tell at the high tide. Had fun at the ledge I like. OH drops and a few barrels. Nice juice. Even the sw offered up a few lefts due to all the sand nearby. Anyway, I'd expect the sw to stay dominant down there, as they are almost equal up here, and another round of south should be filling in tonight.

[Piggity]

It was walling up SW yesterday with the long periods, so just a little NW will help. Just need something to mix it up a little to get some peaks instead of mile long walls and current from hell.

[Marhankins]

This morning was great at the beaches. It's completely socked in down here now, and hard to tell what's going on in the water. East side of town looked smaller than I thought it would.

[Long duc dong]

Piggity,

Thanks for posting, that's pretty sick.

The Santa Barbara summer stuff is depressing. You can find it, but it's tough, usually windswell. If the Islands weren't there that place would just crush it in the summer.

Looking at the map, you can see the radness of the Ranch. It's just out far enough towards Point Conception to pick up the summer southwests, and obviously gets the winter stuff too. I need to invent the widget....or win the lottery. I never made it there in college, although I had some friends who boated in once. The guy with the boat never came back up there, unfortunately.

Yesterday afternoon was fun at Cotton's, although the wind was stronger than usual. Today I surfed Newport in the morning. It was wonky, although there was some size. It looks like it's building, so tomorrow afternoon another Trestles mission is in the cards.

What a run it's been down here. I'm not appreciating it enough. When we get a knee high weekend I'm going to be shocked to remember what that's like.

[Piggity]

I was just thinking the other day that I pray I score the ranch someday. Place looks amazing.

I know where I'll be tomorrow morning...those submarine canyons should do well with this combo

[Ottime]

Swell was pumping through town this evening. From reports. Amped for the morning. It was pretty fun this morning. Tide was high and the swell (a little to) slowly building. It was super clean. And the few folks out all knew each other from surfing the same ledge in previous seasons. Familiar faces. Hoots. Some solid waves ridden by all. A good morning.

C

But I hope it is bigger and more consistent tomorrow. I love October.

[icelanticskier]

who knew?

bouys looked kinda meh. winds have been kinda meh, waves have been kinda meh, well, since last sunday:

http://www.ralphspic.com/newsletter.html

which was not meh at all. thought i'd pull a drive by this am. glad i brought my stuff. not meh, not meh at all. driving over the hill i was greeted by perfect, and i mean PERFECT waist+ a-frames with perfect light offshores. had the whole north end of longsands from the big white buoy to nubble all to myself from 9-1130am on a sunday. unreal. that'd be about 200 yards of beach with no one around to bother me. the 5'8 cordless sprocket was fkna perfect for more lefts/rights than i could paddle for.

nadine is still producing from 1500 miles east with 90+ mph winds. thank you nadine. see you tomorrow, tuesday, wednesday...........

rog

[Piggity]

Canyons were pulling in a few waves this morning. Crowd was thick and the tide was a bit high but still some really fun waves to be had. Shoulder to head high with some overhead sets. Saw a few waves that were several feet overhead on the drop and then drained at middle peak. Crowd was thick there so surfed down the beach and caught 10-12+ really fun waves

[Ottime]

Got what I wanted. More bigger waves. This mornings 8.5@14-295 comboed up nicely with the 3.1@17-205. But it was sooooo clean yesterday, and the just a few feet overhead made for playful waves. And the crowd of 5 was smaller than the 12 that eventually showed up today. But it was well overhead this morning for session one on the slab, and head high plus for session 2 at the point break.

Looks like tomorrow should stay in the OH range for the most part. I did break an old friend today. She is in the garage getting a face lift. I wonder how many more days before she is just split in two

[PowerWhore7]

Nice to see everyone getting theirs, hope it continues.

Unbelievable family beach day, 80’s, sunny, no wind until the late afternoon and building surf all day, super crowded almost everywhere but not much traffic down @ Trail 6. When we left the beach I counted an 18 wave set that broke for over 4 minutes. Tomorrow should be really fun without the crowds and the peaking swell.

Check this gapeing sequence my wife got of me today.





DOH!

[Superstar Punani]

Fun weekend.

Sat-
Woke up. Looked out front. looked closeouty. Threw my 5'11 and 6'2 in the truck and checked the south end of the beach. Drive-by check of middle beach. hit brakes. u-turn. threw useless 5'11 and 6'2 back on rack. grabbed 6'6" step-up. paddled out. surfed 3 hours in a bunch of different peaks all to myself. current and bomb sets kept crowd minimal. picked off some mad bomb sets. lefts and rights and late drops and long walls and reforms on inside bar. lunch. see ore bomb sets. waxed up 6'8. went back to where I was this morning. scored again.

Sat AM, original shot (2 dudes in lineup to the left of the screen, way inside the right of the breaking peak)


Instagrammatized version:

[Long duc dong]

Sunday evening was fun, as expected.

I started out at Barbedwires, which was shoulder high+, but lined up and with no one out. After the first hour, 3-4, it really stopped coming through, so I migrated south to Cottons. Cottons was much bigger, a couple of feet overhead, but it was lots of fun. There was a big crowd, but I was able to negotiate it and pick off quite a few. The crowd was pretty spread out, so it wasn't as bad as it looked.

Newport looks good this morning. Hopefully one of you guys can get some.