Thanks for the info! Stick bait, is that plugs and lures?

Plugs, lures or swim bait all work just use whatever you would use from shore. You want to fish the top or mid water so your retrieve speed will be different depending on which you choose. A lure like something from Lucky Craft would be where I would start.

Oh and congradulations you just exceeded 10 posts so you now have access to thousands of old "members only hookups and fishing reports".....dive in there's some great stories to be read and knowledge to be had!

Do a search, there's some great old OG reports from Linda Mar, typically back casting stick baits and such into the surf from beyond the break produced some huge stripers.

I've only caught them trolling but if I was targeting them I'd cast into tidal rips around jetty's and other structure.

Right on Dan, nice Grassy those are my favorite local species to target from shore.

Keep posting and watching for a hookup, see you on the water!

If they allowed traps from the beginning of the season, that would mean the commercial would be open at the same time as recreational. That would make a bigger difference than hoops vs traps - once commercial is open - regardless of what you use (hoops or traps), it’s much harder to catch any crabs (at least based on my limited experience) as commercial boats scoop them up from the deeper waters, so most crabs don’t even make it anymore in the kayak range.

No and yes.

Commercial over the last ten years or so at least has typically been opened a couple weeks to a month after recreational even during the years when pots were allowed so no the commercial would not start at the same time as recreational. However if the restriction on pots continues throughout the crab season the recreational take is/would be much larger.

And yes once commercial opens the crabbing becomes much more challenging.

Sick Stealth!

Fish finder install looks really nice and clean and I'm loving the black and white theme Mark. 

Quote from: chopper on May 15, 2024, 01:18:25 PM

I'll second a recommendation for the lockracks -- I get almost zero movement on the kayak. I mounted them on the t-track on my hullavators and it is rock solid. For my 2022 outback it has to ride bottom up to fit, but I prefer that anyway. I'll leave it to Moo and Eddie on how they fit the narrower Stealths but I've been super happy with them.

Cheers,
Brad

Does the Lockrack bolt right onto the Hullavator so that you can use the two together? Currently I use a Hullavator with locking straps but the Lockrack looks real convenient.

You have two options for mounting when you buy the Lock Rack either bolt it directly to a track bar like you have Mark or buy the adaptor that can clamp to round square or aero bars. Might be a little too complicated but you could try with my set to see if it works.

I really like how simple, secure and light they are.

Nice work!

I bought this one it came with all that stuff, it's lasted over five years and at least 10 trips and I'm still on the first set of batteries because I run it off an outlet at home and the 12v when I'm driving. Costs ten times as much but you don't need to buy or fab anything else.

Full disclosure the cigarette charging adapter eventually broke but my car came with a 12v to 120v converter option.....so I'm still good.