What To Watch For This Month
Synopsis: March leads us into the winds of April. This is a transition month with wind, rain, swells and perfectly calm days. Keep your eye on the weather and pick the calm days to fish. It looks like the sand crab population will continue to grow, so you may find them in the sand along soft-sand beaches.
Temp: 56-60 from From SB to SD. Warmer. Small, long-distance south swells continue to use their 5000 miles of inertia to push warm water north. Not only did the water temp stay warm for this time of year but even went up a degree. Storms coming from the West and South have “boxed” in the California bight. Look for more of this water moderation as another small south swell takes shape to hit our shore next week.
Tides: Thursday’s new moon represents some great tide opportunities through Monday, with great morning and evening high tides for surf fishing. As we make our way into the middle of next week we can expect relaxed neap tides. Giving us both an opportunity for both great high tide and moderate tide fishing. Great tides surround March 13th, our new moon, and March 29th the new moon and will usher in the first big waves of grunion.
Wind: A very mild Santa Ana will build today through Saturday. Strong on-shore winds return early next week, then will be replaced with traditional light morning offshore winds and afternoon winds from the NW of 10-15mph. March often has strong windy periods and the last of the Santa Ana wind events.
Swell: We still continue to have a bit of a push of south swell and the moderation of a larger NW swell that will die off today and be immediately replaced with three West swell patterns that will produce double overhead swells, through next week, on west facing beaches. Because the swells will be coming directly out of the west, rather than from the NW, and because we will be experiencing a South swell simultaneously, it looks like very little will change with our water temps. Look for South facing beaches this week to have waist to chest high surf with West facing beaches having overhead to double overhead surf into mid next week.
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