All around Monterey Peninsula 10/20/06

Checked out CRSB, offshore east  wind maybe 10 mph at 7:15, too much to go out alone, but as I left, I had the thought it might die down later.
   Launched at Coral St about 8, windy there too, but at least it was onshore from the east.  First drop, snagged and lost my rig. Second drop, with small octopus on shrimp fly, immediate hook up with 18" cabbie, which was photoed with my new $27 Wal-Mart "waterproof" digital camera and sent back.  ( Maybe I'll be able to get the photos into my computer and post them, so you can see what cheap can do.)  By then the wind had come up more, and besides making it unpleasant, I was concerned the wind waves would make landing difficult, but it wasn't bad, a little protected by some wash rocks south of the landing.
   So now it's 9:30, hours of prep and launching for 15 mins of fishing.  Such a warm bright day, I decided to continue clockwise to Del Monte Beach, launched there about 10:15 to calm conditions, trolled the kelp line down to Sand City and back.  Got a 27" ling, red and brown, near the west racing mark, then a barely legal greenish gray one in the same area. Trolling floating Rapala-like lure behind dropper with a piece of rebar on it.  Neither big enuf to keep. A touch of red tide there.
  Also got a large gopher late in the game, released it too.
   A little breeze came up up from the west about 1, and I slowly got back to the landing about 2.

Nice report. It shows what I have always though, there are nice Lings and Halibut off Monterey State Bach. You just need to find them.

Gotta love living in paradise!!!!!

Gotta love living in paradise!!!!!

Yeah, rub it in Pat  . Most of us jsut ge to visit now and then 
You and Randy do indeed live in Paradise.