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Topics - Fuzzy Tom

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    I'm going to wake up(in Santa Cruz) about 5:30-6:00 am and check conditions at Stillwater tomorrow.  If it looks possible, as it does now from the weather reports (except for a little more swell than I want, I think), I'll go down to Carmel and look across to see whether it's possible. I'd like to try the Carmel side of Arrowhead Pt. and don't plan on going very far outside, but I might if it's nice.   I'll probably get there, if I go, about 8:30.  So that's a definite "maybe".

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Hookups and Fishing Reports (Viewable by Public) / Stillwater-Carmel Monday
« on: November 28, 2005, 07:56:48 PM »
     For those of you who were looking at the 18th hole cam and wondering if the cove was as calm as it looked: it was.  Mostly cloudy and warm. When I got there about 9am, a couple of other fishermen were standing around one yak, one of them mistakenly thought the resort rented them, and no one else on the peninsula would let them be taken out of the bay.  So they both piled into what looked like a 12 ft yak and went out, I later checked with them and they had at least one legal ling in close.   I wasn't intending to go to the Pinnacles, but it was so smooth and the birds suckered me into it.  Very low swell, no wind.  Got the usual double hookups of blues and one vermillion.  Had a couple of serious hits, but they didn't stick.
    West wind up about 12:15, I scooted back in just in time, because it came up fast.  Very calm on the inside, tho, and an easy landing about 1:30, tho I found out there are a lot of boulders in shallow on the south side of the wharf, so I landed on the north side.
   Met a solo free diver with 2 15lb lings, a 4lb grass rock, and some good sized blues.  He said he looks into the overhung holes in 50 ft of water for the lings, where they hang out.
     Got back to Santa Cruz as the rain began to fall.  What a gift of a day!

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General Talk / Stillwater-Carmel Pebble Beach 18th hole cam of cove
« on: November 27, 2005, 02:12:46 PM »
In the background of this cam's view of Pebble Beach's 18th hole you can see Stillwater Cove.  The Pinnacles are out of sight about 4:00 o'clock and mile to the right.   The launch is out of sight about 10:00 o'clock and maybe a quarter mile to the left.
It's hard for me to tell from this first time viewing it whether this cam will be helpful in determining yakking conditiions.   

www.pebblebeach.com/webcam/18th_java.htm 


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Notuna and I got out about 8 a.m., went out to the Pinnacles, after a little wandering wound up near the light kelp on top of 60-80 ft in areas of 100+.
   Both of us had multiple doubles and we each kept about 4 good sized mostly blues, but one olive and one gopher.  It didn't seem to matter what I sent down, it got hit within seconds, but mthey hit mostly the bare shrimp flies. I spent some time soaking a huge scampi looking for Mr. Ling, to no avail.  Both of us had some big takedowns, I had one big fish testing my drag up and down, but others could have been the ordinary blues wrapping themselves in the kelp trying to scare me into thinking they were sharks.
   Weather was great-no wind, no drift until near 12, med. swell wasn't breaking at all, and the cove was almost calm enuf for extemely smooth launch and landing.
    Brendan (fellow f.-yakker) the F&G fish checker showed up just after we landed.  I don't know what I'm going to do with what he told me about otoliths (my question), but it helps to be prepared.
   Thanks for the good company, Jody.

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I plan to launch at Stillwater at 6:30 am Thursday.  Swell looks to be about what it was last Sunday, maybe a little lower, and winds are predicted to be light - didn't even rate a "5 to 10".  
   [I guess I shouldn't have been surprised on Sunday to see a few swells (about 5 in an hour) breaking slightly out near the Pinnacles, since it's some shallows in deep water.  That was a 9.2ft/11sec NW morning at the Monterey Buoy.  Then I got home and my neighbor told me they sometimes do tow-in surfing someplace in that area.  So tho it's a great launch and aptly-named cove (but I bet it's wild in winds from the south), I think I'll keep an eye peeled to avoid surprises.]
    I'd like some company - sure met some nice people the other day.
  Tom

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Hookups and Fishing Reports (Viewable by Public) / Davenport Thursday
« on: September 28, 2005, 07:28:25 PM »
I'm going to launch at Davenport Landing and go up towards Scott Creek Thursday around 7:00 am looking for halibut.  Lo Swell and his girlfriend Offshore Flo should make it, and other company is nice to have up there.
Tom

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Medium foggy at 7:00, no swell, no wind waves, left from SC harbor, went to Adam's reef off Live Oak (near Capitola), got a 29" ling on squid tipped rootbeer jig, then a blue and a small dog shark. Earlier, I'd got some jacksmelt in the kelp and tried using them for halibut, but they were pretty big and would have been quite a mouthful. Then not much except small rf, so at 11 I paddled up to northeast of the SC mile bouy, maybe 3/4 mile from the bouy, in about 50 ft, a dozen pb's there and started hauling up browns, must have been a big school of them there.  Got 3 good-sized ones and then quit because I was hooking small ones.
  Got a little wind (10k?) at noon, but it didn't build much,  Got off water at 2:30, it was still mostly overcast.  The water was brownish out to about 40 ft, then clear.

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Hookups and Fishing Reports (Viewable by Public) / 7/14 Moss skunk
« on: July 14, 2005, 06:15:49 PM »
There were some fish being caught at Moss, a returning pb said "lots of little ones" 1 mi W. from 49/50, and radio had mixed results.
   I got on the water at 6:45, first toward the bouy just outside and slightly SW of jaws, then uup to 49/50, then out to the little ones, then back to the bouy and in at 1:00.  One shaker for all those miles.  Trolling various apexes behind both the 8 0z banana sinker and the flasher /diver deal.
   Mild temps, medium low fog (1/4 mi vis), no wind til 12:30, fog persisted all day, low swell.
    Big relief not having to gut a hog on board!

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Launched at 7:00 from around behind the south breakwater with a salute from the squirting clams.  Bright and warm with fog almost gone,left over wind swell seas steeper than I prefer, short intervals, better further out, no wind.
   as I was getting ready to launch, a guy towing a PB trailer asked me if I knew where the fish were, and told me they were at 49/50, near the 5 buoy.
   Sounded as good as any where else, so I headed there trolling my green apex and flasher behind deep 6 diver (small one) way out behind me.
   Got no hits, but I caught a pb's lines(or vice versa), second  in a week, who seemed way out of my path. They were pleasant about it, and I got my gear back.  they had a shaker on at the time.  Iwas in 200 ft of water near the numbers by now(but no bouy in sight).
    I started to tie it back together, then switched to the 8 oz banana with watermelon apex about 3 feet back.  Got it out on about 125 ft of line, paddling about 2-3 statute mph.  About 15 mins later(9:30), as I was about to pull it up and put the flasher on, I got a big hit, looked for snagged pb's, seeing none, I went for a sliegh ride, got the fish up to see it was a big one, thought I'd better wait to net it, then it took off straight to the bottom and 15 mins later I had it up doing circles around the yak and then  in the new bigger net I'd bought yesterday, lieing in  my lap.  Knifed it in the head and it quit flopping.
I gutted it there and it looked worse than most autopsy photos I've seen, blood everywhere and me thinking about sharks and nasty sea lions - do you guys risk that every time?
   Wanted another, got no nibbles, and radio chatter wasn't good.  About 10:30 a little breeze came up, at 11 I headed in trolling now with a silver dodger).  At least today I think it makes sense to make a real wide left turn when reentering the jaws from the north to avoid the bigger swell and confused sea (flooding).
     31" 15lbs gutted    Lots of fun, I hope July goes on forever!

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Scouted out the West beach launch at New Brighton yesterday, one sign says open at 6:00 a.m., one says 8:00a.m., but it looked fairly easy with a good cart in low-mid swell.  Asked the attendant, she said I could launch at 6:00.   That would be plenty early on a drizzly morning; I'd caught a big ling out there last week and wanted to let him know today that rockfish season was open.  Turns out you could launch at 6, but you can't get to the parking lot till after that.
    Cussing all the way, I drove to the SC Harbor, which was as busy as I'd feared it would be with PBers at 6:30. Tho there was heavy fog, I could see the wharf.   Very small swell, light wind waves. Patches of anchovies within 1/2 mile of the entrance.
    I headed to the lighthouse and out to 50ft of water near the SC7 yellow bouy.  Dropped my big rootbeer lead head with a shrimp fly above, both tipped with pieces of squid.  I was bouncing in against the bottom when I got a light hit and then knew I had something heavy, maybe a good sized ling.  I cranked it up without much trouble and it was a flattie, but I thought it was too small to keep so I tried to net it a couple of times, but that clearly wasn't working and I then could see it was probably a keeper, so I gaffed it, put it on the dive clip,cut it's gills and waited ten minutes- I was glad I had a 3 ft gaff so I could tuck the other end under my arm on the side opposite the fish so's I could continue in my singleminded quest for rockfish.  It had hit the leadhead.
    The butt was still alive so I took my tack hammer to where I thought its brain was, cut its gills some more and waited another 10 mins.  It gave a couple of good thrashes, so I gave up and fought it into a burlap bag and put that inside a plastic bag and tossed it in the crate.  
    A half hour later, I tossed my bait bucket on top of it and it thrashed some more.
    I caught a couple of non-keeper rockies and met Eric and saw his brother out in yaks. They weren't having any luck that I saw on rockfish, either.  I headed in about 11:45. The wind had held off more than I thought it would.  
      The butt was 34", 14lbs - my first ever.

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