Lover's Point 6/10/06

Launched from Lover's Point at my usual super-early.  I like to launch from Lover's real early for 2 reasons.  1 is that the beach is lit so you can drag your stuff down in the dark and be on the water at first light.  The second is parking.  The spots up close are 2 hour parking from 9am to 6pm.. . so I can park there and just be back by 11.  Today, though, I was going hardcore .. so even though I launched at about 5:30, I parked far away so I could stay out longer.

Fished hard until 2pm. . .trolling and drifting froz squid all over Otter Cove general area.  I covered most of the spots from 15 FOW out to sanddab territory for no flatties.  Intersting incidentals were a few sanddabs and a few mackerel, the smallest of which (mackerel) I tried using for bait.  I must have passed over a big school  - got 3 total using a 4/0 circle and whole squid!  I guess they were hungry. 

I also saw a bunch of what I think were blue rockfish? boiling on the surface near shore.  The otters and a few sealions were crashing through the kelp there like it was a show at Sea World.  I could get close enough to see that the boiling fish were 8-12 inches or bigger in length but I could not get close enough to see better what they were.  They looked fatter than mackerel or other bait fish.

Anyway, it was awesome to be out there in such nice conditions.  Even though the sun never came out, the lack of wind made me want to stay and stay.  if I could stand on my yak and stretch out I could've stuck it out a few more hours but I was getting cramped.   

Hope you all had some better luck . . we'll get em next week!