Striped bass in Capitola

I heard about striped bass caught in capitola ...I as getting excited ...then I viewed the photos of Cali Striped Bass and decided it is not for me ....I grew up catching monsters in the Chesapeake Bay ...here are two my VA fishing partner {{ HAG }}grabbed one day  last year...

Here is a medium sized SB from Capitola. Big enough to target?

There are 30 and 40lbers swimming around in the surf. But definitely not as many as they got in VA! Those are friggen hogs your bud got! I'd love to hook one of those from my kayak.
One day, she will be mine. Oh yes, she will be mine....


Btw I think the landlocked record was from San Luis Res until recently broken.

There are 30 and 40lbers swimming around in the surf. But definitely not as many as they got in VA!

Yup, and sometimes when the conditions are right, there are enough to warrant targeting.  I think it was 2 summers ago that the sardines stacked up at the surfline from NB to the Cement Ship and there were consistent catches of the larger models for a couple weeks at least.

-Allen

The salt stripers may be consistently bigger in VA, but that's a PB in the background. You might as well add 20#'s to the weight for the difficulty and fun factor of landing a big striper from a yak

Those are some friggin hawgs dude.  An 8-10lber fights like a champ, I can only imagine those. 

One day, she will be mine. Oh yes, she will be mine....

Actually Garth, its pronounced Mi-Lay-Wah-Kay, meaning "The Good Land."  Classic.

The salt stripers may be consistently bigger in VA, but that's a PB in the background. You might as well add 20#'s to the weight for the difficulty and fun factor of landing a big striper from a yak

 
            Yup,,,      I'm way over due...