Capitola is back to Crapitola 5/14

Hit the water around 7 am, it was great conditions.  Headed towards
Pleasure Point, then kept going just outside or inside the larger kelp
holes.  Dragging a sardinish swimbait and either a small frozen
mackerel or smallish frozen squid.  Watched all the PBs around me
bailout and head south, so after a few hours without a
hit, I headed over as well.  Same story, but I did come across schools
of small sardines and macks.  They were thick yet I could only sabiki
a few here and there.  Sardines off the bite?  New one for me.

once I found the live bait, I fished the sardines.  Perfect bait
size.  I did have a few seabass follow them to the surface but they
never hit.  I also saw about 4 sardines making a run out of the kelp,
and I could see a school of maybe 10 seabass hovering under the kelp.
they ignored everything I could toss at them, including a naturally
swimming live sardine.  Damn.   What is the size restrictions and
limits on seabass anyway?

Ended the day with 4 sardines, a few small macks, and a very ambitious
small brown rockfish that enhaled a whole squid (CR the rockie.)

When I came up the fish and game gal said all she had all day were
macks and smelt.  "you should have been here yesterday!"  Story of my
life!


Eugene

Dare I ask if you are saying ....WSB? How big?

I think wsb need to be at least 28" to keep.Glad to hear there is bait back in.Thanks for the report Eugene.See any halis caught?

Sorry to hear that e2g.  I have been hearing about the ghosts in the kelps there, bummer.  Been hearing about some strippers in that area too, today, slightly below there.  Keep pluggen.

Hi Yakers:

   I had a large school go under my Yak late last Bummer!  The WSB followed my 4" Perl Buzz Bomb till I eye balled them!
   I was shortly invaded by PBers asking  "Which was did the Go?"
as if, I'm going to tell them while allmost being swamped from their wake.
                                                   E

yeah, good idea not to tell the PBers about their location.  a lot of those guys snag the fish for commercial sale.

no halibut that day that I heard of.

I would guesstimate these WSB were smaller than 28 inches.  They seem to move around a lot, after the first encounters I never saw them again.

E2G - I had the same luck as you on Thursday. Tuesday was great for me around Capitola, but I was also out Thursday and Friday with skunks both days. Yesterday the bait was thick around New Brighton with birds crashing everywhere, lots of PBs and at least 4 or 5 yaks in the area, but I didn't see many fish caught at all. I jigged up some nice live sardines and tried dragging the bottom and flylining the surface around the kelp beds and along the surf line for nothing.

Oh well, still better than being at work!