Yeah we surfed the slop this morning. Conditions were objectively terrible, but I'm giving it a solid POOR because:
1. There were occasional HH 'waves'

"It was absolutely craptastical and a frickin' ball. Pure HH-OH chaos that invited you to j ..."

"My heroes! "

OK - so I had a great session this AM, so you can take this with a grain of salt. And the 'fair' rating pertains to only one small section of the beach, because we saw pretty variable conditions. If you want to de-rate it, call it a fair-.

So - we found some genuinely nice waves out there today. It was intermittent and shifty, but there were semi-clean HH+ rights and lefts rolling through if you were patient & lucky. Multiple big fun drops & a few rights that connected up through the inside. Paddle unfortunately was not so friendly, but overall with the sun & light offshore winds I was totally stoked. Best conditions in a little while.

"@Platypus is dead on. Paddle may get easier on the outgoing tide, but this morning was lik ..."

"Brave people. I have been there and remember some hellish paddles when it gets like this i ..."

"Yuuuup. Initial paddle was 5 minutes. Then I took off on a subpar right & spend the next 2 ..."

"LOL...country trucker style....or what? (That's with bended knuckles vs folded round btw) ..."

"The winds held off until about 2pm, but the paddle got worse. Good exercise. Poor waves. N ..."

I don't want to get anyone's hopes up, but we found a small window of fun surf this AM. most of the beach looked pretty unsurfable, but we poked around looking for the best. Went out, wind died, things glassed off. Still fairly weak and gutless, but there were occasional shoulder high sets rolling through. Mostly drops & weak shoulders, but I connected one nice long right.

Dunno... I expected the worst and it was a lot better than that, so pretty stoked. Your mileage may vary - I heard it was a lot worse earlier, and it will probably be worse again soon...

"i will agree with you there was a window when low tide hit that it was somewhat decent. th ..."

"went out when it was bad and stayed out long enough for it to get fun. super windy and whi ..."

am tempted to give it a fair minus, but that would probably be too generous. Shoulder high dumpers, a couple small faces, much more fun than expected. Did not drive around too much this morning but found a nice little spot that was working better than anticipated. Stoked given expectations.

Most of the beach was garbage but we found a fun spot with soft SH-HH waves. Some fun drops & small shoulders, sunny and almost windless. Given our expectations, it was stellar. Giving it a fair-, that's a 'spring rating'. Definitely worth it - we got lucky :-)

"Ugh, got beat down by the paddle out and was too weak to get some of the nice OH sets that ..."

"Yeah, goodness, that was *not* what I had expected. Happy to have dragged my a** out of be ..."

"#scullbone - if you paddled out where you normally surf, I'm impressed. That looked like a ..."

"#platypus, yup I just couldn't resist. Thought I saw a channel. Apparently I forgot wher ..."

"my first paddle out at 9 wasn't bad, but then i ate shit and got caught inside and couldn' ..."

Fair - / Poor +... Looked a bit more promising, but waves were sneaky & hard to track down. Conditions varied from soft & shoulder high to some throwing HH peaks. More waves on the inside, but plenty to be taken to the head as well.

All told, a good enough session. Had potential to be better, but really wasn't.

"Sounds like I didn't miss much this AM then. Off to the warm waters of mainland Mex!"

":-)"

"scull i 8 u right now. well hf we all will be thinking of those warm waters, good waves a ..."

"The doldrums of spring have caused me to see mirages in the lineup. Swore before I paddled ..."

"High wave count, short rides, and I think I briefly shared a peak with a guy who is angry. ..."

Hmmmmmm not sure what to say about this morning. Dawn was super glassy. And there were shoulder high (ish) waves, just something was missing. Despite the 4 @ 15 reading I saw, things were pretty weak and gutless. Wish I had the longboard, though it was definitely shortboardable. Conditions pretty much stayed that way though the winds started picking up a bit & putting some texture on the water (though not killing it).

Still had a fairly enjoyable session. Perhaps a bit better than some of the crap we've been having recently, but nothing special. Missed the sun...

""Weak and gutless." Yup. Got worse as the winds picked up & the tide rose & the crowds sho ..."

"I actually got more waves when the wind hacked it to crap. I guess that's my "Linda Mar cr ..."

"I needed moar foam."

"I was getting pretty jealous of G sliding by on his longboard after missing the first doze ..."

"Moar FOME. AMD MOAR WAXXXXXX!!! * I had fun. We tried paddling against the current for ..."