santa cruz 8/19

I wasn't able to make bait so I took advantage of the flat conditions and paddled toward natural bridges and started working my way back jigging scampis. the bite was a little slow but I managed some quality fish here and there. I moved deep into the kelp close to It's beach and the light house and nailed a nice 18" cabbi closely followed by a puffer 22" grassy, though I'm not 100% on the ID yet, it was a little darker and more brown than a grass. It tried to kelp me but I gave it some slack and fooled it into wandering back out into the open again. still have yet to bag a halibut for the year, it will be a hail marry hali soon enough. I'll try and post pics as soon as my camera cable turns up.

Thanks for the report Loomis. I'll be fishing that area on Sunday.

-FF

That's a massive grassy!  Nice one.   

That was a dinosaur grassy! Biggest I've seen was probably 18 to 19 inches.


-Eliot

Well you're fishing the right area for the halis (according to the latest Bayside Marine reports) Keep trying and keep an eye out for the landlord

Just Keep on Fishing...it WILL COME!!! thx for report...u will nail that BUTT YET...