Ft Ross adventure

My wife and I went up to FR on Wednesday we arrived and set up camp and headed out to fish about 4:00 PM.  we stayed a few hours.  it was slow but I did catch a number of blues and gophers.  I also dropped a crab trap on my way out and nabbed a couple of nice rock crab.  I was happily reeling in a fish when my wife noticed that my paddle was drifting away.  She paddled over to grab it but it came apart...one side filled with water and sank into the abyss!  I usually keep a spare in my hatch.  This time I only kept one half.  You guessed both side were female...sheesh!  so I was paddling 'canoe style'  Then I was tugging my pole to break loose a snag when the wooden handle of my rod snapped in two (it is an old, cheap rod).  I was able to use a piece of the broken rod handle to shove in both (female) ends of my paddle...Now I'm back in 'kayak paddle' business.  As I was landing I jumped up to grab the bowline (to drag the boat up on the beach) when another wave hit and rolled my yak.  I thought that it snapped my pole but it didn't...it dumped everything but only broke my net.

FF to This morning.

It started a little slow but I caught a nice cabezon and tossed back some blues and gophers.  Then I found the spot and doubled on chilipeppers and a couple of nice vermillion.  Today things were much more smooth.  Nice paddleing, nice fish and no mishaps and a dry landing.

We had a great time.

Oh, 95% of the fish were caught on an orange shrimp fly

Second day sounded great First not so great  How big was your cab

thanks for the report! i love that place.

can you tell me when crab season for dungeness is going until? i thought it ended in june from what a friend had told me.

thanks!

john

Second day sounded great First not so great  How big was your cab

18"  oh and it had an orange hue

thanks for the report! i love that place.

can you tell me when crab season for dungeness is going until? i thought it ended in june from what a friend had told me.

thanks!

john

dungeness does close in June.  I caught rock crab.