Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning?

Just a quick report. Paddled around glassy water at the Port this afternoon, 3-6. 3 kayaks out there but weren't from NCKA.

The boy and I jigged for nothing, trolled for nothing and finally drowned worms for a sweet 1.5 lb white cat for dinner.

The 3 yaks hooked up 4 cats that I saw.

Troller in an alum PB hooked up a 19" striper among 3 anglers..

lots of little fish dotting the surface right at sundown..

P.S. Is there some kind of decal for this club I can stick on my canoe?

Bioman

We motored out of Sausalito yesterday (2/10) through raccoon strait and anchored up at the south end of Paradise Beach Pier at about 1:30 under clear blue skies.
There were about 3,000 gulls and a dozen sea lions and seals at Bluff Pt, mostly sitting on the shore and floating in the tide rip. No dive-bombing, fish boil feeding frenzy at that hour.  At Paradise (north end of California City) another 3,000 gulls on the shoreline, and a dozen sea lions, but only one dive-bombing pelican and not much feeding activity. My sense was there might have been a spawning run a couple hours before and the gulls were hanging around picking off eggs in the dropping tide.

I trolled a broken back rapala and a flatfish from anchor for about an hour for no interest, and then tried to sabiki, but with 5 knots of current my line went out sideways.  We had a thrownet, but saw nothing to throw at.

No fish finder on board,and I think we would have only seen junk in the current if we had it.

Saw one other boat (a trophy 28 or so?) looking around but no one hooking up. 

Don't know if any of that is of interest or helpful to anyone.

Second most important piece of safety gear on my boat is the anchor. Specifically for those times I'm being swept a) out the gate, b) onto the rocks, c) into second place.

If you're cramping up, couldn't one drop the anchor until either the current subsided (never more than 3 hours), or the legs recover???

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the "king tides" this week and wouldn't this be an opportunity to hunt some new ground for clams or monkey faces?

Tides this week of -1.6 an lower.... you experienced dudes want to 'splain why there isn't a flurry to hit the lowest tides of the year?

Curious-
Bioman

Just make sure you've bred first. Ever wonder what all that green glow does to the parts of you that sit on that kayak?

Bioman

In a small PB, started out on the potato patch for salmon, but no one was catching and everyone was hurling- so we skedaddled into smoother waters at Muir Beach. Saw 3 kayaks working around the N point.

We hugged the south side of Muir rocks for limits of blacks with 3 going 2.5-3 lbs. taken on live anchovies.

No love on ling baits, candy bars, or trolling for pink.

You guys planning the trip on Tuesday take note. Our Captain said the fish were there a week ago, but busted up and spread out with the weather change.

Good luck.

Bioman