Hi Dustin get better buddy. I put this one on the calendar gonna try and make it this year. It’s only 20 minutes from my house.

I’m gonna make it this year I hope. I think this is gonna be a good year of fishing for me. I’m gonna start filling up my calendar.

Hi guys, so I had a great time out there today didn’t catch a fish but weather was really nice. Thanks Kieth for putting on this event.

Guys I need your help, I drove off and left my wheeleez in the parking lot if somebody finds it can they please PM me.

Help a bruda out.

My son saw one when when we were out there on Friday.

Hi people,
I haven’t been out in a while, well over a year. I’ve been working on a project that’s just consumed me. But I’m finally near the end…

One of the main reasons I got into kayak fishing is that I wanted to target halibut. In the close to twelve years I’ve been in NCKA I’ve never fished for halibut seriously. (Mostly due to time constraints.)

Anyway, I watched a bunch of Utube videos and developed a plan. (Thanks Santa Cruz surfcaster.) Never fished Santa Cruz before, so I didn’t known where I was going.
I met up with my son at Santa Cruz harbor at six, picked up some anchovies and were paddling/pedaling out before seven.

Pedaled straight out to about forty foot and dropped down. (Did you guys know there’s a reef out there, while I never fished it I have talked to people who have have and was left with the impression that it’s all sand and no fish.) My bait kept getting taken, landed a decent sized brown rockfish, hmmm. Ok, one I’m not over sand and two my fishfinder isn’t working.
So I hit reset on the fishfinder and bumped to deeper water. Dropped in again at around fifty foot. Fishfinder is working again and now showing structure, the weather is gorgeous no wind, glassy conditions, the current is taking us south. It’s a pleasant day.

So around 10:30, at about sixty foot, I get some tip action, I wait a few, slowly raise the tip, it feels heavy, bam, I set the hook and wait, after a bit I raise the tip and feel a protest. I got him. I keep tension on and bring him to the surface I can see he’s legal, I grab the gaff, but change to the net, I pick his head up and thrust the net, got em.

The rockfish got most of our bait, so we were left jigging swimbaits. The wind picked up and we moved closer to shore no more luck, called it about 12:45.

So I landed a 27 inch halibut using a halibut rig with an 8 ounce weight and an anchovy in about 60ft of water. Had a great lunch at Seabright Deli, most importantly got to spend some quality time with my son.

Cool, now I can load up. See you guys up there. Thanks Ruben.

Gonna try and make it.

Thanks for the advice guys, I think I will take you up it. I'll see if one of the dealers carries the kit (I'm pretty sure it is limited to the seat peg hole.) I did research the Hobie website and didn't see anything about this type of stuff.

I took out the scupper plugs cuz they seemed to help hold the water in, but I'll put them back and see if it helps.

See ya OTW