First experience with currents

 

 Paradise Park hook up was my first time fishing on the salt.  "Let me splain somethin to ju!"  When I troll I expect to watch my line trail out straight behind me!  Thats normal for me.  Being out on the bay, something just wasn't adding up for me when I was trolling.  My line was not tracking out behind me, but, instead it was passing me!  um hello, stupid line your supposed to be going that way!  With the wind pushing me one way (Out to sea) the current going whichever way it was, my line was everywhere! At one time I know I was moving forward,at least I thought I was, my GPS showed I had .08mph speed and I was watching my line head under my outback from right to left.  Had I stopped peddling, my GPS then showed my speed as 1.2mph (Drift) So I guess even though I was peddling I was still going backwards! I had to peddle a little faster to actually move forward!  Having only fished fresh waters prior to this event, my expectations for trolling were way off.  Loch Lomond (Santa Cruz) doesn't have underwater currents and trolling is normal there for me.  Trolling the bay waters was something totally new for me.
  Was a new experience for me and not my last.

Troy

Cool story, funny stuff. Currents can be tricky. I remember my first experience with currents, it was about two years ago before I had a kayak and before the MPA. I had a twenty dollar inflatable boat from Walmart with a five dollar POS paddle. I was at Elkhorn Slough (Kirby Park) fishing for flounder or whatever wanted to bite. When I went out it was high tide, I fished for about two hours with no bites and decided to head in and maybe drive to Monterey before it was too late. Started to paddle in and realized I wasn't going anywhere, literally. I tried and tried to paddle but eventually became fatigued and started to trip out a little. I was about a mile and a half away. Long story short, ended up breaking my paddle, swam/sank to the nearest mud bar knee deep in stanky mud, almost lost my boots, drug my gear and deflating boat up hills through fields back to civilization and convinced some guy at the Dolan Rd. wrecking yards to drive me back to my truck for gas money. Talk about a cazy day and one hell of a learning experience. When I returned to my truck I saw/realized that the tide was going out and I was fighting a strong current. Well that's my currents nightmare story, sorry for the thread jack and run on sentences. Be careful out there next time you test out the salt.Something else that occurred to me is you live so close to the bay and just recently you've tried the ocean,the LL pb ban must be driving u crazy