July/August report

Lets see ..

Otter and I went out for some Marin and Mantara fishing. Still no photos from the southern trip but here are a few from Marin, the first of two weekend trips. We paddled out just after a pretty tall set of waves and saw right off the bat a lot of bait activity quickly jigged up some mackerel and sardines as the seals and birds made a lot of commotion on the surface. Dragged the sand for awhile with one #40 leader cut off cleanly with no load on the line and later a heavily shredded sardine ... sharks?

Moved to the rocks and caught and re lased a couple of gophers but pretty slow for and hour and them Otter drags up a big 38" Ling 20 feet from shore and has to paddle out of the shore break before he can get the fish to the boat. After a short debate we decide to keep since it was all we had come up with other than bait fish so far. He bleeds it and heads back to put it on ice, an hour later I get a pretty decent 19" gassy but as it turns out the fish fit in the Lings mouth.

A week later we headed out near Montara for batches of underlings, a greenling and eventually four nice keeper Cabs (No photos yet from Otter) one foul hooked and released. that was a nice new area that I hadn't paddled around before. Also kept getting visits from porpoises some went right under the yak.


So anyways here's the shots of the bait, launch and Ling.

Cheers Tsuri-

i'd hate to say it but that bait looks pretty tasty. looks like it gonna have to save the bait from next trip. thanks for the report.

Nice ling.  Those baitfish are beautiful too.   

Congrat on the catches.  Those  grilled Macs & Dines look delicious!  Thanks for the report and pictures Tsuri.

Great times...and I love the "on the table carnage" your making my stomach grumble...  great report thanks....

And thats a Chunky ling...ya baby!!! good eats!!!