Elk / Navarro / Albion / Van Damme

Checked out Elk, Navarro, Albion and VD on Saturday and decided it was a day better spent out of the water. Check out 'Know when to call it a day' in the general topic forum. It was ROUGH.
Decided to launch out of Albion on Sunday as it was the easiest access and easiest entry into the water. The water was pretty dirty everywhere due to the heavy swell and I didn't want to put a lot of effort into launching if the fishing wasn't going to be optimal.
Well it was still rough, but nothing like Saturday.




And the swell was still pretty big too.



My girlfriend had to call it a day early as the swells were getting to her.
My 14 year old son loved the ride.




Fishing was VERY slow as I think most of them were 'holed up' due to the swell. I did however manage to drill a 28" Cabazone on a 10oz hex bar.




There was a nice big ab in the belly of it too. But I passed on that one and got 3 early Monday before I came home.

So out of 3 of us we only had the one bite. We fished the entire Albion cove and just outside of it. Still too rough to go out any farther.
The weather cooperated with total sunshine and zero to little wind. Now if we can only get the water to do the same.

Wow.... that's a huge cab.  I bet that one would easily knock Bill's 10# cab out of the jackpot lead.

Bill dodges a bullet!  That is a HUGE cab.  Me and jelly used to fish Albion a lot.  It can be pretty good, but other times it can be tough fishing.  The tide is a big deal there as an outgoing tide drains the river and freshens a big part of the cove and the bite just dies.

Big cab   ab belly would have surely topped my ab   crab belly. Like they say if you don't enter you can't win. With the exception of Sean's striper I don't think the current big fish leaders are the biggest fish caught this year.

nice fish and pics  

Bill,

I think Dustin's ( "Rockhopper" ) striper from the lake Mendo tourney was a few onces bigger than Sean's striper.  But once again, the bigger fish wasn't in the big fish pool.

Brian

With the exception of Sean's striper I don't think the current big fish leaders are the biggest fish caught this year.

 

Are you forgetting the MONSTER that was caught at Bendo @ Mendo already, Bill?