Navarro Beach 6-22

Had to work on fri. and sat. when the weather was good at the loacl rock fish spots.  Sure as shit, sunday am. wind blowin like hell.  So of to Navarro I go, 2.5 hrs latter I cross the bridge, water is like glass on the river with a little mist here and there.  I'm thinkin I got lucky glass conditions on the ocean.   I park and ran across the beach for a looksee.  My heart sank, it was pretty bumpy out there.  So I watched the surf for a while, didn't look too bad at times 3 ft waves, with 4 and 5 fters mixed in, been in worse.  All geared up I put in about 200 yrds up the river and paddled to the sand bar.  Right away I notice my fish finder isn't working, oh well, aint stopping me. I drag my yak across the sand and to the north side of the beach, easy launch.  My fish finder is still dead so I make my way around the outside of the boiler rocks, I know the area well enough to do without a ff.  Right away I get into a bunch of blues, I don't get to the bottom and they go for the shrimp fly every time.  I lose the fly teaser and tie on the good stuff, giant tora gitzit in black and white.  If there are lings here this will get thier attention.  Get 1 30 in ling, a bunc of smaller ones 20 to  26 in.  Lost one at the yak that would go about 35 in.  I'm about 3 hrs in to the fun and the wind is picking up, pretty foggy and getting worse so I call it a day, kept 5 smallish blues and the 30 in ling   

Nice day on the water in tough conditions. It looks like some of those are blacks.t They have the large jaw that blues, Just as good to eat. Keep it up on the lings! They have been tough to get down south.

Way to go on the solo mission, backindayak.  Great report.   

SWEETNESS! You missed the calmest days, but had the best action of the 3day weekend?!
Nice Ling,pics and detail in your report! ...the lost BIGONES hurt to most.
I got one of those GitZits in a speckled-rainbow. It works!
Betcha that 2.5hr ride back home only felt like 1.5hrs, huh?   
..and a "much awaited" cool bay wind had taken over our area!

Big thanks for this report, backindayak!
I have some really fond memories of Navarro. Especially the o’dark thirty treks across the river and north for abs with my family. I really want to go back there w/my kayak for rockies. Thanks for the inspiration. Saw my first and only hake caught from the beach there about 15 years ago; the thing was about 3 feet long. And looks like I need to get some of those huge gitzits! Thanks!

Thanks for the report of one of my favorite places in the whole world.  Bummer on the 35".  How was the water viz.?

Thanks for the 707 report! You got me wanting to try it.

Nice!

Thanks for the report and the picture of the gitzit!