Kayak surfing picture.....

Saw this pic of Jim S. - surfing his prowler. To those of you who did not get the chance to fish Linda Mar on a big-surf-day....this is what it looks like.....

http://forum.kayak4fish.com/modules.php?full=1&set_albumName=La-Jolla-Kayak-Fishing-local-photos&id=surfclass5&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_photo.php

I suggest you guys start practicing  

nice photo,jim looks like he has skills. i have made it 2 years since my last capsizing, i long for july.

Did he make it?  He looks about 2 seconds away from a world of wet

don't know if he made it...

Josh, Stuart and Kevin....is Bean Hollow just as Big?

Actually, he looks like he is doing pretty good on that wave ... nice rudder action and slight lean into the wave, no pearling.  I'm guessing he made it just fine.

-Allen

He is surfing that wave properly, but when it kicks over he'll be kind of parallel to it and that might send him over.  

Biggest surf I've seen at bean hollow was probably 3x that, but most days the middle of the hollow is about that big.  The thing with the surf there is that it's a short violent break.  The water sucks out (like the tsunami) leaving only sand, then a 4' wave slams into the sand.  With no water to surf on, you stop on the sand and the wave clobbers you.  Fortunately on either side of the hollow the surf is smaller and breaks more gently.  The surf zone is short enough on the sides you can usually get in/out without having to cross a wave.  In the middle you'd have to get out and pull the kayak up the beach a bit to be out of danger.  It's hard to judge the size of the surf at bean hollow when you're coming in.  

I have photos on a disposable of bean hollow on a 12' swell, 4ft wind wave, day, with me and ethan surfing our yaks.   If I can find that camera I'll get it developed.

Biggest surf I've seen at bean hollow was probably 3x that,

good grief  



I've heard horror    stories from Stu, Kevin and Fred about that place......it was nick-named: "THE HOLLOW"
Maybe this year - I'll try to make it out there.  

Its not that bad, at least it wasn't the one time I went out.   It is a fairly big cove and you can find some easy entrance/exit near the outer edges.  If it is so big that it is breaking over the entire cove entrance you don't want to be out there anyways.

Come on Joel,

We been in 2x if not 3x bigger waves at Linda Mar.  We make it back in 50-50.  Remember we are "RockStar" up here.

Ken kickfish

we are "RockStar" up here.

 

Linda Mar did have some heeeuge breakers last year. I think the biggest surf I've experienced is when it was minus tide. I remember Ken, Sturgeon-Slayer-Erik and I were out there....no salmon were caught that day and by the time we had given up on the bite, the surf was clearly big enough to entice ALL the local surfers to come out of the wood work. We came in when the tide was all the way up the house's front door step on the beach  

All of us tumbled on the surf coming in  
Wish I had pictures to share  

That sucked!!!

Hey your just gald you are in one piece when  you get off your Yak.

Ken kickfish

Last week after the Mavs contest my friends and I stopped by bean hollow to check it out.  The residual waves breaking on the beach were only hitting the 4 foot mark but the breakers at the mouth were thick and nasty averaging 10 feet but occasionally hitting 12-14.  In fact the entire coast was breaking big and about 150-200 yards from the beach.  Pretty hairy.

Thats crazy!!!  I'm guessing he eats it a few seconds later.  Going out in that stuff is commendable to say the least.

Bean hollow wasn't that bad, its just a steep beach.  I've gotten out and in every time, but Fred is 0 for 2.  His streak is a broken rod for the last 2 times.  I think the 3rd time is the charm


Stu

I think the worst thing about coming in through surf is when you are on the top and drop through and face plant. My kayak has a very nasty habbit of that. My freedom has a very sharp v that cuts through too easily. I've never broken a rod, just got plenty of sand in the reels.

 I think the funniest surf landing was my buddy, paddling my hobie maui ( which is my surfing kayak) and he got turned backwards trying to ride a wave in so now he is facing the surf. So he starts paddling again and comes back through the surf. Then starts yelling because I was laughing my ass off. He falls out of the yak trying to splash me. Then he stands up cause he was in about 4ft of water. It was classic.

-Brian