Hey everyone. As I'm prepping for the upcoming salmon/rockfish season, I notice I have a ton of stuff that I don't use anymore. I'm sure a lot of new guys are to the sport so here you go. Located in Fresno so shipping is possible if you pay for shipping. I do go to the bay often to fish so I could meet up on the weekend. Or meet me at San Luis Reservoir (Los Banos) and fish

here are the items:

1. Hobie H-Crate

***** asking $120 *****

2. Lowrance Elite 5 Chirp with 83/200+455/800 Transducer. One note on this is the transducer one of the pin broke. It is the one that display water temperature. Everything else works. You could pick up a new transducer for 50-60 bucks on amazon.

It comes with the headunit, power cable, transducer, hobie battery holder, SLA battery (7ah)...I'll toss in a SLA 20 ah battery (this doesn't fit the battery holder)

***** asking $180 *****

3. Hobie Adjustable Rod Holder

This one goes into the molded rod holder on the kayak. Include all the hardware you need.

***** asking $40 *****

4. Hobie Tackle Management

**** asking $10 ******


5. Two measuring board

**** asking $5 each*****

6. Free splash jacket and wetsuit (was given to me when I first started kayaking so passing it on)
 (medium in size)


Let me know if you have any questions...open to offers as well or best offer. First to send payment gets dib and will be held until we determine a method to get it to you

Here's to a killer 2020 salmon season

just saw this...you know you want one. lol

Just thought I let everyone know there is a sale on sixgill spinning reel.

http://sixgillfishing.com/Sale/

I couldn't resist the discount, 39.99 from 129.99 is a hell of bargain. Its also salt water rated and has over 36 lbs of drag!!

 They also have surf rod for 60 dollars that is originally 180.

I have this that I used less than 10 times



and I want one of these hobie cart.



let me know if you are interest. Thanks.

I remember being there around the triathlon race last year and it wasn't too bad if you get there early lol. Parking at the Old Pier. I'm sure the main parking near the hmb kayak rental will be packed. Traffic will be extra bad that day lol

http://halfmoonbaytri.com

Hey guys. I just got the lowrance elite 5 ti and tested it out on the water today however notice that I am not able to get satellite lock. I tried everything I know, read up on the manual however not much on it.

Other than the GPS issue, the touch screen, sonar, downscan, sidescan, etc...worked awesome. Love it. Now I just need to get the GPS to work!

I played with it more tonight. I hooked up my old Elite 5 chirp and it found satellite within minutes. I then hooked up the Elite 5 TI in the same location and it still searching even after 30 minute of it on.

Anyways if someone can point me in the right direction, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks.

Hey guys. Meet up with LBSteve at 6:15 am at the Forebay to head over to PG. Got there at 7:30 and OTW at 8.  Fish from 8 til 1:30 pm (for me), Steve stay out a little longer. The morning the swell wasn't bad but picked up as the morning went on. The bite at the beginning was slow. There were seals all around us. We were marking big school of something. We figure it out later that it might be squid.

Figure the seal were scaring all the fish so we head out deeper. I put on a sabiki to see if I could get some live bait for the lingcod. As soon as we got to the destination, the clicker went off. I was excited to get some live bait to try for some monster ling. However getting it to the surface it wasn't the right kind of fish. I had 5 blue rockfish on the line. haha. It did put up a great fight! All fish were released.

Put it back down again and immediately hooked up again. It was another 5 bluefish. Released all again. Did this for another 4 times and each time it was 3-5 blue rockfish on. Within 10 minutes, I had 30 rockfish. As soon as the rig got down, it was fish on. All fish were released using the rig.

From my understanding, since I didn't have any rockfish onboard/stringer, I could continue to use the sabiki? If that is not correct, please let me know so I don't get a ticket I didn't keep any of the fish caught on the sabiki rig. At any rate, after 10 minutes, I stopped using it since it was only getting the smaller grade rockfish and switch it over to jigging swimbait.

Another question, any tips on getting live bait without the rockfish attacking it?

The bite was slow with jigging swimbait until Steve gave me this watermelon curl tail. Man the color combination or the favor was the ticket. It was none stop action. They would short bite it. Eventually they took the tail off the bait. Even with the tail gone, it was still catching fish. lol

Well the swell got really bad. At one point, it was so high, I couldn't see the mountain or Steve. Let just say the swell eventually got me bad even after taking dramamine. Eatting didn't help and any liquid I drank I donated to the ocean haha  After I felt better and continue fishing. Fought through the sickness but the action was slow. After many I called it quit since I wasn't really fishing haha. I was more focusing on keeping stuff down lol.

Bonus is that we got to saw a school of dolphins (bum that I didn't have the camera on) and a Gray whale circle us. Thing was massive. Was hoping to capture it on camera but only got it breaching the water for a quick breathe of air. He/she stayed around for a bit and still didn't get it on camera

Overall it was a good day beside the big swell and getting sick. Thanks Steve for joining me. Always a pleasure fishing with you buddy. By the way he got a wetsuit Until the next adventure.