Capitola 7/24

Good day of fishing and even better conditions. Launched thru ankle bitting waves at 7:30. Beached around 4:50pm. Worked from sponge bob buoy, the mile reef, and everything in between lol.

Loaded up on anchovy’s, by 8:30am was fishing one rod. Never even used an anchovy. Rock fish were feisty and good sized for town standards. Tried trolling a candy sardine lucky craft, no luck. Dropped down a smelt colored big hammer swim bait. Found rock fish piled up on each other. Lost count after four, released all the medium sized ones. Finished with five plump ones make the knives look small.
Decided to leave the rock fish alone, and try another spot by 11am with no luck. Continued moving. At noon I Hooked into a White Sea bass with the smelt big hammer swim bait, too bad it was five inches short  fun fight non the less. Continued fishing with no significant action. Lots of chatter on channel 11, sounds like they were slaying butts. Next time 

Dang that is one hell of a day of catching!!!    Hooking a local WSB in Cap is like winning the lottery.  Saw some SUP fishers that caught them tossing flukes into kelp.  Nice RF as well!  Dang i'm super STOKED for ya!

Wow a WSB?! That’s an exciting site. Thanks for sharing, that’s some work you put in.

Nice. Thanks for the report.

Congrats on a great day on the water. Seabass. 

And thanks for rhe report.

Alex