Coral St. 8/19

I thought someone else would have started a string by now.  I met Nomad, his friend, Arc, Pat (seabreeze) and Randy at Coral St. Saturday morning about 6+/-.  Pat had the intel from a friend regarding the bearing to some pinnacles so we followed her over several sets that extended toward deeper water.  The bay was beautiful and calm with an easy launch and good company.  An east wind blew us toward Pt. Pinos early and it reversed about 10:30 to 11, blowing us back toward our launch as the seabreeze kicked in.  I landed a barley legal ling early that Randy got a photo of then pulled up what looked to be a shell less abalone but it  actually had a small shell with a vent hole in the middle of the top and an orange foot underneath.  Randy also got a photo of that one.  I am sure someone can identify it then it can be posted under I caught a blank with a blank section.

I did well using a white blue and black 6" fish trap and ended up with 5 keeper blue and brown RF.  At one point a had a huge hitchhiker hit that broke off in the kelp.  Definitely the bigest fish I have ever had on my line.  Next time I plan to land him.  My 20 lb mono was already suffering from abrasion and my knots had not been retied all morning.  Every day on the water is a new experience and a chance to learn something.  I can't wait to see Randy's photos and find out what that unknown catch was.

Too funny, we put our posts up at the same time!!!

Randy, Sacyak, Nomad, Ark, and "Nomad's buddy" (he has a name but he is in stealth mode   

This was a rare flat day for Coral St launch so we wanted to get it in before the autumn weather hit.  Sure enough, conditions were lovely 1-3 foot sweel and no wind and overcast but dang if we could connect with much of interest.  I probably released 16 blue rockfish that all together wouldn't have amounted to more than 8#'s.  A few barely legal lings were brought up.

So, Mbayak, when do we get the Coral St tutorial?  I believe we hit the pinnacles at the 50" foot mark just fine but no love.

One exception for me was the very red boy kelp greenling that I snagged.  We brought him home to try our hand at homemade fish prints.  Y'know, it isn't as easy as it was with knowledgeable help that we had at Elk.

Thanks for the good company fellas.
 
 

That is funny.  It definately takes a cup of coffee before I am ready to face the internet.

Sorry for the delay in getting the pics up.
 Without further ado...

Paul/Nomad and his secret buddy (Preston, but don't tell anybody  ) at the launch:

Paul scored first with a "maybe" legal ling in about 30', but I was unable to catch the pic before he released it.  Here's Etienne's mysterious catch and his first ling:

Ark on the prowl:

Pat's Greenling.  (she's now batting 1000 for Greenling on her last 3 trips)

That abalone-like looking thing is a giant keyhole limpet. Sometimes you can find their shells on the beach.  Nice report I definitely would like to try that area again next year.

http://library.thinkquest.org/J002608/Keyhole.html

It was a superb day out. Conditions could not have been better. It was great meeting members from the board and fish with them. Very nice meeting Nomad and his friend, Sackyak, Pat and Randy.
Fishing was not too bad. I could have caught more fish if I wanted but I wanted the prizes that usually lurk on the bottom and they were very few. I hooked up into a nice huge fish (most likely a ling) on a whole mackerel that I had on a double hooked sliding sinker rig. The fish was heavy and pulled me every which way and was hard to handle. I slowly brought it up but it was suddenly snatched by one of the harbor seals that broke my line off.
Fished between the kelp patches and found nice nice huge blues and an almost legal red cab. All fish were released.

Great day but it would have been better if I hadn't lost my $250 Revo sunglasses at the end. I put them on the hood of the car but forgot about em until last evening.
The real bad news? I have to wait til next weekend before heading out again on the  yak.

I overslept!  Since I had hiking plans later that day, I totally blew it for fishing on Saturday.  I went today, though, with Sin_Coast and another friend of ours (don't think he's on the board).  It was slow fishing. We launched late (11am) and there was just about no wind at all.  It was kind of creepy, actually. The flies were an issue.  Need that seabreeze. 

We each caught and released about a limits worth of small rockfish.  Sin_Coast got and kept a nice vermillion and I got and released an underling and that was about it.  I didn't have much luck on my usual 5inch swimbaits and squid was just producing little guys.  The thing that worked best for me today was a 3 inch grub in black w/ silver sparkle. 

I almost forgot . .just as I was leaving I hooked into something bigger.  I was tired and ready to go and I guess I was trying to horse it up and I snapped my fenwick bass rod in half.  I'm gonna get a new 'light' rod - but this time not quite that light. 

Ouch!!!  It has been exceptionally still these last few days.  You are right, it is sort of eerie.

Thanks Randy for making it sound like an intentional release of that lingcod.  For people that weren't there...the thing was huge!  must have been 25 lbs....ok  just kidding.  I had her stretched out and had just confirmed it was legal (barely) when she decided she didn't like my advances and slapped me in the face and jumped ship.  Oh well...no biggie.

I had a pretty slow day after that until Preston and I paddled to within a hundred yards or so of the exposed rocks at pt pinos.  Drifted back towards the the launch point from there a couple of times and caught several blues.  Preston had a blast especially when he had 2 fish on at once.