moss 4/8

I could only fish saturday. weather was great.  launched boat ramp area about 6:45.

I paddled till I saw boats (probably too far, when I came in, i timed the paddle
and it was a brutal 90 minutes even with no wind).

I mooched anchoviy, on 20lb spectra with between 200 and 500 feet of line out cause I heard
the trollers were getting theirs 300 feet down. tried the head (stu) rig and the thread (savage) rig.

I did not know where the bait balls were, I guess I need a ff.  trollers reported seeing bait, but it
was not really helping them catch fish. Also on the VHF, somebody asked if anybody was mooching
and nobody answered.

trollers got fish, but a lot of trollers sounded frustrated and did not have fish. I think they are very
deep and fairly scattered. Not so good for kayaks.

Nothing except a couple lost head-rigged anchovies.

I did try 1/2 an hour of pulling a double deep six diver with 300 feet of 20lb spectra out and it got tripped
once, but could have just been a big swell.

landed at 2:35 p.m.

hope you all have better luck tomorrow! 

Best,

J

Nice effort John........slow season so far!

blue, I heard one @ 90 on the radio, all others were 200, some 300+ OTW.

santa cruz seems like a smart option, but they are saying 220 in 240 even there on coastside.

I guess those fish won't stay deep forever tho, and I'm sure there are some shallow but they
were not being found @ moss landing today.

the downrigger makes sense for 20 feet deep and 4lb test and trout. I don't know about
salmon in 300 feet of water. I think you need a couple hundred horses for that.
What really killed me today was paddling 4 miles out there or whatever it was I did to find some boats. 
hardly anytime left to actually fish.

I think I'm going to have to wait until they are closer or shallower.

I think the planer got real deep. I had some extra weight on it.

The angle on the planer I estimate @ or better than 45 degrees.  nice and steep.
So I think I was sin(45 degrees)*300 feet down or about 200 feet down.
p-spark notes that there will be a curve to the line reducing the depth a bit.
I don't know how to measure that.

I had an extra 4oz torpedo tucked behind the weight on the planer, a #1 deep six.
A little too much maybe. I tied a 2oz torpedo on there for next time.
I have a second planer, a double deep six with the weight already attached.

blue, if you have 20lb spectra on there, there will be no stretch. it could snap if a big salmon
hits it hard while trolling, maybe a trolling 'snubber', is in order? but maybe you had no
stretch on your fllourocarbon anyway.

When mooching, I got kind of curious where the bottom was.
I let out 500 feet of line to see if I could hit bottom and also because I had not
seen that 30lb spectra for a while and it looked like it could use a stretch!

I'm using one of those $10 shakespeare external linecounters.

I think the line bows up not down, unless you stop and it is sinking?

my six year old is good at math, learned it playing dice (5000) with the gangstas
that run the daycare he was at for a month. we could ask him.