What's up all, been registered a long time, but inactive on the boards for a while, but still kayak fishing.  Been on Central coast kayak fishing for a number of years now as I live down on the central coast in Santa Maria.  Just wanted to say hello and looking forward to getting back on the forum more and coming up for some events this year, I am originally  from the Bay Area.

I am hoping one of my more tech savy ncka brothers or sisters might be able to help me out.  I have a third generation Ipod nano that stores pictures.  I am trying to open those pictures with my computer and can't seem to do it.  Does anyone know if this can be done?  Please advise or feel free to ask for more info.

 Pj I'm Sorry I missed you guys up at LK.  Hope you had a good day. 

Loaded up Last night, woke up at 0430, left the house at 0445 got to Morro bay which is 25 miles from my house, I realized I forgot my License! ,  So I turned around to go home home and get It.  With the price of Gas, the new launch spot was shell beach five minutes from my house. 

Launched from the Stairs in shell beach to almost no swell and a light wind.  There is a lot of kelp but it is realyy shallow 20-28 ft. Paddled out to about 50 ft, which is 1.25 miles off shore.  found some reef patches, and started hooking up.  The Crazy thing is Every fish except one, that I caught to day were browns.  Ten total seven kept.  Caught My first legal ling of the season at 25".  Wasa stoked to get on the board after several short ones.  paddled two miles north and then back.    Best I've ever done righ t close to where I live.    Only a few Pics: Acouple Browns, and the final take. 

I'll be headed to either Leffingwell or hearst state beach and plan on being on the water by 6:30.  Still haven't decided which spot yet, if anyones interested post and we can narrow it down.  Otherwise I'll be monitoring channel 69, if any one wants to hit me up out there., will also be fishing friday at the spot I don't fish thursday.

Launched out of leffingwell @7:00 am to great conditions small swell wind almost non exsistent. and no fog.  I headed to Cambria Rock.   Water Clarity was pretty good as I could see ~ 15 ft down.  a lot of blues around Kept one to eat but at times I was moving just to get away from them also quite a few kelp bass mixed in with them. fishing was pretty good started a little slow and then really came around for me.  Caught quite a few blues, Gophers yellow and Blacks.  Had 2 Nice reds 19" 4 lb and a 20" 5 lb.  was definitely stoked on those could have called it day with just those two fish but I hadn't seen a ling all day short or otherwise, And I wanted one.  the wind was really picking up but I was tying off to the kelp so I was going to stick it out for a little longer and I'm  glad I did. I was fishing my way back in and and was getting pretty close to calling it when I was hit hard and got the Big head shake I was looking for.  Brought him up on my new setup I just bought last week (Kencor Graf ocean series 7' 10-30 lb w Okuma Convector CV30l reel.) got him up and he made couple runs back down taking line I could tell  right away by his head he was a keep, so after getting him back to the surface I ended the fight with Swipe from one of  EKunz's personalized Gaffs and brought him on board.  He was 27" but weighed in a nice 9 lbs.  I was totally stoked and called it a day.  on aside Note I am pretty sure I saw a pretty big WSB in the kelp.  was messin around with a pack of blues about 8' down when from out of the kelp this very large fish cruises out and stops about 12" from my jig. even though  I have never seen  a WSB in person out of Water   this sure looked like one to me. with its tail shape and light coloring.  could have easily have been 33-36".   

On the water at 6:50, launched out of leffingwell and worked my way north about 2 miles to southern San Simeon, caught a few gophers and a short Cabby on the way. Cabby was deep reddish maroon with some interesting markings so I snapped a pic. Very foggy most of the day.  did not see any other kayaks or Skiffs out there, too bad for them.  Once I hit the kelp beds it was on for Rockfish.  Only had one underling of 23", but the bite was wide open had over 25 fish for the day, mostly gophers and kelp bass, and a ton of blues, it was littorally every drop for about 20 minutes at one point, switched to light tackle and had a blast with all the blues and Kelp bass.  Also Had two very nice Reds 15" and 17" caught on a 1 oz leadhead with 3" berkely gulp shrimp, so was stoked on that.  took home an easy limit of 2 reds, 3 blues, 1 sugar bass, 3 gophers, and a nice Olive.  was as hot a rockfish bite as I've seen all season.  Wished I could have found a legal ling, but I'M definitely not complaining.  the wind was light all day, the fog cleared for about 45 minutes, and then came back and then cleared again.  Navigated north by gps, was clear for the way home.  off the water at 1:00 pm.  After reading Pj and Rustic andy's reports from tuesday, I was hoping the door would stay open for me till the weekend and to my delight it sure did.  Couple pics:  the neat markings of the short cabby, my two reds, and the fog in between clearing. 

Sorry for the tardiness of this Report, left right from fishing to go to an annual Camping/beer drinking event and did not get home until sunday and after unloading all my stuff I passed out. 

John Hog was down for that event so I took him out for his first trip off the central coast.  we launched out of Leffingwell at about 6:30 where it was FAC.  ABout 7:15 the fog rolled in thick a brought a little 5 knot wind with it. the wind stayed about 5 maybe 7 knots for another hour and a half until it was getting progressively worse.  although at about ten the fog burned off.  we fished until about 11.  not much luck out there.  I was a little bummed I could not get J hog on any decent fish but he had a blast out there anyway as did I.  he had a couple little rockies, also hooked up with something decent but got spit pretty quick.  I had a couple small rockies a short cabby and one 15.5'' cabby that we kept along with the biggest gopher of the day for tacos.  not  alot of fish but none the less a great day out there fishin with a good bud.  we then proceeded to go camping and drinking with about fifty other friends and aquaintences. pics below: J hog on the water, our launch, my 1 legal Cabby.