Paradise 18 July report

Well first time at paradise and I hooked up with Troy (Gotbaitgofish) headed out to about 25ft of water and the pole goes bendo, I thought I had a nice size halibut and was using really light gear, but after the first run I know it wasn’t a butt and didn’t seem like a ray either. After about 25 minutes along comes about a 50” sturgeon. (damn, I know I should of stopped and got report card) anyways what a blast and released for another day. This was only my third time fishing from a kayak and I’m way hooked now. Beautiful thing about a yak is, it is very hard to get spooled. Hooked a ray later and a couple of small sharks, No butts but a great time.

Mark

woohoo! sounds like fun. Good job on bringing it to the boat. I look forward to my first sturgeon with the yak... or maybe not

Congrat for the Sturgeon hooked-up!  Don't you love the sleigh ride with a Dino pulling it?    Glad you had a great time there.  Thanks for the report Mark.

Wow! Nice job on the dino. I keep seeing them jumping when I'm out there. jim

Wow! Nice job on the dino. I keep seeing them jumping when I'm out there. jim

Yea, I saw a few jumpers as well. Man, that ramp is really slippery

Yeah that ramp makes me tense up cause I don't wanna break a hip. I'm going to use that rusty old handrail from now on.

wow, nice hookup with the dino, to bad you didnt have the card, but hell i have a card and still havent got one, and yeah that ramp is a little rough at the moment, just ask my orthopedic doc, hahaha, cameron

Yeah that ramp makes me tense up cause I don't wanna break a hip. I'm going to use that rusty old handrail from now on.

I was eyeballing that, but didn't bring a lead line to hook to the yak. I will next time.

Markbc it was nice to meet you guys today on the water I was the guy in the white and teal PB, sorry you guys did not get a halibut today but sounds like you had a good time anyway. All we got was two halibut one 21" the outher was 29.5" once the tide turned all we got was a couple of bites that was it, we tryed angle inland but got Bowen off the water, untill next time .

Pat R

Knew I should have gone today, great job on the catch to bad on the report card, the ride should have made up for it. I got my report card but no luck on the hook up yet.
Any Pics?
William_102

Mark, do you mind telling what bait/setup you were using?

Markbc it was nice to meet you guys today on the water I was the guy in the white and teal PB, sorry you guys did not get a halibut today but sounds like you had a good time anyway. All we got was two halibut one 21" the outher was 29.5" once the tide turned all we got was a couple of bites that was it, we tryed angle inland but got Bowen off the water, untill next time .

Pat R

Hey Pat R,

It is always always nice having someone giving you live bait while fishing, thanks again. Nice meeting you as well.

Mark

Mark, do you mind telling what bait/setup you were using?

I was using a sliding sinker with a double hook setup, I had large herring tray bait. drifting and a little paddle, not really trolling.

Mark

Thanks.  I caught my biggest striper on similar setup.

ed

No fish for me had one nice take down overall a very nice day to b out fishing trying to get my mojo back it,s been awhile for me 

I like to give a shout out to ranger kirk he let me ride in the back off he,s cart while I pull my kayak up top   

Nice to meet every one today

This is my fishing report from the local bar