Slow day at half-moon bay

[promethean_spark]

Took me alot longer to get ready this morning than I expected, ended up in HMB about 11am.  I dropped 3 traps and my hoop about 200 yards north of the harbor mouth, 60 yards from the jetty, and kept paddling west as I'd never been far that way.  I checked out the guys kayak-surfing at the point, it looked pretty sweet.  If I'd been only dressed in my wetsuit and had some company, I'd have given it a go since I was in my surf-friendly tandem, but I was content to watch for half an hour and check my traps.  A few little rock crabs and starfish, but nothing good.  So I went around to the inside of the jetty and hung out there, watching guys catch rockfish from the jetty (a ling got gaffed   ) After an hour I hit the traps again, for one legal rock crab.  No sign of dungies at all so I called it a day as I was obviously not going to catch a good quantity of crabs.

[agarcia]

Hitting the area southeast of the jaws may have produced better.  I think the lagoon between the nw jetty and sail rock is nearly all reef/kelp and the rock crabs control the surronding area as well.  I tried to get out there but I had to spend most of the day moving furniture for my sister at UC Santa Cruz.  It sucked, I did 90% of the work, her crap was heavy and there were no good looking chicks to be found ....... anywhere.

What point were the yaksurfers at?  Sounds like some fun.

[promethean_spark]

Well, I was only a little west of the mouth, so I'm pretty sure I was on sand.  I've seen other guys traplines out there before...

If you follow the west jetty straight west you hit some rocks that look like tiger shark teeth, the guys were surfing on waves breaking over the reef just south of those rocks.  They were about 200 yards southwest of the beach at the end of the west jetty.  It'd be fun, but my wife is firmly against a surf kayak, as that wouldn't involve anything tasty coming home, and I've already got 2 kayaks...  My tandem is pretty good in the surf, but I'd probably get laughed at by the other guys.