Capitola 5/14: Report

FAIL!

Goal: My first halibut

The early launch was super easy -- very small waves coming in. Conditions further out were amazing -- calmest day I've ever been on the ocean. We never get days like this on the Mendocino Coast. Surprising that NoWhereMan posted on another thread that SC was a washing machine -- the point and direction of swell must have really blocked that action today, thankfully.

Tried 25-48', hoochies, flashers, swimbait, squid, but nothing.

Tried a sabiki and just caught croakers and a 17" mackerel, which I don't care for and released.

I was the only kayaker but there were 3 or 4 other boats and nobody caught any halibut.

Landing was super easy.

Just peddled out to the buoy and then sorta all over the place without knowing the area -- maybe that was the problem.

Next time!

James

There was a short period swell out of NW which was the issue on the west side—or more likely, I’m just a wimp…

Sorry that the halibut did not show, but from the radio chatter, it sounded like the bite was terrible for everything everywhere. 

Thanks for the report James.
You’ll get em next time