Stillwater Pebble Beach 5/3

Got a latish start this morning, launching just before 7:30.  Weather was okay most of the day, overcast but not cold.  Water was bumpy on the outside, but after 5 months off the water I still enjoyed the heck out of just being there.    Fishing was slow, only 2-3 bites in the 5 hours on the water.  Did manage to bring in a nice 16" red that's on the grill right now.    Took one photo but it's still on the memory card.  Nothing else though...reading the other reports I'm thinking maybe I should have tried Coral Street!  There were at least 7-8 other yaks out there fishing with me today, so maybe someone else will report better results than me. 

Hi Pete. Good to know that you made it out to the water.
I and Sackyak launched from Monastery and worked up north. The wind was gentle though while the water was quite manageable, it was lumpy. Being the dumbass I am, I left my scopace medication in my car since I usually take that right before I launch and I forgot this time (been long since I've fished on the ocean). Soon after I started feeling sick and even though I tried to fight it off, I got off the water at 830am. The fishing was okay in terms of bites. I was using an orange/brown Berkley shad swimbait and was hooking up with fish with no problems. Most fish I caught were off trolling and were almost all smaller sized than what I would have liked. I caught a nice big Canary which felt like a ling the way it ambushed the swimbait and when I was reeling it up, due to my hopefulness to see what I thought was a ling, I was rather pissed to see the orange fish come up.
Etienne did rather well. He had caught a nice Cabezon and a good ling when I was on the radio with him. I'll let him tell his account. I wish I could've been on the water longer and it seemed the water was getting better on my way back to the launch site but the seasickness feeling was stilling lingering so I called it a day.

Randy and I managed a couple of hours out of Stillwater as well.  It was good to visit with the others at the launch and on the water.  Glad we didn't need our radios since Etienne and Ark didn't seem to hear us.  Conditions as others stated.  On a variety of baits we had a morning of slow hits.  Came home with the classic, if small, Carmel Bay trifecta......27" ling, 17" cabbie and 17" olive rockfish.  Life is good in paradise.

Way to go Pat!  I was starting to wonder if you left the area.  You are the cabbie queen!  Keep it up.

Trifecta.  I like that one.  I ended up with the same, a 27 inch Ling, 20 inch Cabby and 13+/- not really measured rockfish.  Water was cold and the bites were slow.  I had my radio on sorry I did not hear you Pat and Randy.  I worked all the way north to the butterfly house then ouside and back.  I worked inside as much as possible (based on advice from Allen Bushnell, see his remarks on RCG opener, thanks), the cabby was in about 25 fow and the ling was 40-45.  The grass rockfish his a swimbait that I thought was tangled in the kelp.  The MPA has really closed off much of the good fishing off Monastary but the paddle out to Carmal is not bad.  We had delicious ling tacos for dinner.  Here are some photos of my catch Saturday and the mother and child otter at Stillater Thursday and the last one is dinner last weekend while family was in town for the marathon.  Live spot prawns from the Monterey wharf, stll kicking when they hit the fire.  Mmmmmmm.

Randy and I managed a couple of hours out of Stillwater as well.  It was good to visit with the others at the launch and on the water.  <snip>

I thought that was you guys out there.  Next time I'll say an appropriate "hi" when I see you, instead of just asking if you'd had any luck.    Glad to see that the two of you did better than I did though!  I tried following your advice from a season or two ago, and ended my day hunting for a cabbie inside the cove.  The advice worked in the past, just not yesterday. 

Nice to meet Usagi, Pam, and Randy on the water. I fished with two other friends in our yellow prowlers at Stillwater. Weather was not as bad as expected, but fishing was slow for us too. We hardly got any fish by jigging, all the small to medium Olives and a few blues came by trolling. The kelp bed was not there at all. I also maked the Pinnacles Reserve boundary and was surprised to see the closest corner of the reserve was so close to shore. Here are a few pictures I took. See you next time.