Stillwater-Carmel Thursday 11/10

I plan to launch at Stillwater at 6:30 am Thursday.  Swell looks to be about what it was last Sunday, maybe a little lower, and winds are predicted to be light - didn't even rate a "5 to 10".  
   [I guess I shouldn't have been surprised on Sunday to see a few swells (about 5 in an hour) breaking slightly out near the Pinnacles, since it's some shallows in deep water.  That was a 9.2ft/11sec NW morning at the Monterey Buoy.  Then I got home and my neighbor told me they sometimes do tow-in surfing someplace in that area.  So tho it's a great launch and aptly-named cove (but I bet it's wild in winds from the south), I think I'll keep an eye peeled to avoid surprises.]
    I'd like some company - sure met some nice people the other day.
  Tom

Tom,

I plan on going to stillwater 11/10.  I drive a silver Expedition and have a yellow Malibu two ocean kayak.  I am driving from Danville and plan on leaving about 5-5:30 if I can get myself packed up tonight.  Hope to see you there. I am a newbie of sorts and would like some company and advice/tips.  


Jody

NoTuna: Great- I'll be looking for you.  If you haven't been there before, check the directions someone wrote a week or so ago, and get a Google map, but: It's $8.75 now; as you drive up the hill from Monterey on Hwy 1, part of the exit sign says "17 Mile Drive", and you turn right after getting off freeway; after you're in the gate, go DOWNHILL, after a while the Beach Club signs appear; it's a couple miles down winding 17 Mile Drive to the first turn; when you get to the Club, drive thru the big lot along side the building,drop off, and the public access parking is back about a block along a narrow road  between some trees/hedges near a tee-off spot for some no-doubt famous hole that shoots to the water.  The toilet/showers are at the south end of Beach Club building.  The launch is almost a ramp with low steps cut in it, maybe 30 ft long.
   It's just shy of an hour to that launch from the Santa Cruz Harbor, and it got light about 6:30, but we caught fish all morning.  Oh, and remember you can't fish deeper than 120 ft for the rockies, and it gets deep fast if you drift there.
  I have a gray small Toyota truck and green Prowler, I'll fish close for a while if I get there first.
Tom

You are exactly right, Fuzzy tom.  If the swell gets around the point, Stillwater is anything but..........

I won't be able to join you guys.  I hope it is a lovely morning.

Pat

OK Tom.  I'll be looking for you.  I haven't been there before, do I hope I don't get lost.   I have squid strips and shrimp heads for bait along with the regular arsenal of iron, flies, swim baits, etc-enough to sink most boats.  I am trimming down my tackle right now.  

See you in the morning.

Jody
notuna