7/26 Rockfish at Santa Cruz

[Fuzzy Tom]

Medium foggy at 7:00, no swell, no wind waves, left from SC harbor, went to Adam's reef off Live Oak (near Capitola), got a 29" ling on squid tipped rootbeer jig, then a blue and a small dog shark. Earlier, I'd got some jacksmelt in the kelp and tried using them for halibut, but they were pretty big and would have been quite a mouthful. Then not much except small rf, so at 11 I paddled up to northeast of the SC mile bouy, maybe 3/4 mile from the bouy, in about 50 ft, a dozen pb's there and started hauling up browns, must have been a big school of them there.  Got 3 good-sized ones and then quit because I was hooking small ones.
  Got a little wind (10k?) at noon, but it didn't build much,  Got off water at 2:30, it was still mostly overcast.  The water was brownish out to about 40 ft, then clear.