Muir to Dux for zip

Tuesday I trolled to about a mile or 2 off of Muir and up to Dux buoy then back in to RPoint and down to Muir without a scratch. One bait came up with belly missing but that was probably jacksmelt.

Weather was great in the a.m. but I rode back on some pretty nasty wind waves once the wind came alive. It was pretty much like the noaa predictions. On the home stretch I thought for sure I'd be taking a swim but it didn't happen.

A few of the boats I talked to had fish and I saw Outer Limits take 4 fish on one spot so the fish are around but they're pretty scattered.  Conditions right now are probably better for mooching but I'm playing around with the trolling set-ups. If you head out that way I'd be ready for both and at the first sign of wind waves head for the home port.

As an aside I saw second shark in I think about 3 weeks. 1st one was off of south end of Stinson where the surfers are brave and the smartest people are sitting on the beach eating sandwiches.

Weather was great in the a.m. but I rode back on some pretty nasty wind waves once the wind came alive.

Hey Paul, I know you're pretty hardcore, so I bet it would have been too scary for most of us.

As an aside I saw second shark in I think about 3 weeks.

Was it a GW?

To echo Chuck.  GW?

Jason

To echo Chuck.  GW?

Jason

I don't think so both of them were pretty dark and I would guess under 8ft although a marine biologist I work with said gw's can get pretty dark.

4 or 5 years ago I thought I saw something bigger off of Muir. When I came in I bumped into one of the locals who fishes up there and he told me they'd seen a bunch of gw's feeding on a dead whale right inside the cove the week before. At the time the beach was covered with whale intestines but it didn't occur to me that this might attract a shark or two. I think he said there were 14 gw's counted on the carcass but I was a little skeptical about that.

I've talked to some of the commercial guys fishing outside of Dux buoy and they give me the impression they see gw's fairly frequently but I'm not sure if they're just pulling my chain. One of them told me he'd seen a 16-18 ft shark at the mouth of Bolinas lagoon that morning. If I do see something like that I'll probably sell the kayak. For the life of me I can't see how surfing that spot could be any fun. They must be smoking something before they go out.

For the life of me I can't see how surfing that spot could be any fun. They must be smoking something before they go out.

only one thing comes to mind....."natural selection"

Chuck

It wasn't particularly scary but a bit too much of a workout to be much fun. It's pretty hard to land fish in those conditions anyway so you're pretty much just setting yourself up for the heartbreak when you do hook up. That's what happened a month or so ago when I got into some fish off of Slide Ranch and out of a bunch of hookups was only able to bring 1 fish home.

Every time it's been like that my wife's gut feeling in the a.m. was that I should forget about it and stay home - I think she's more accurate than noaa but my ops to get out are scarcer these days.

Also if the wind gets nasty up there either way it blows it's going to blow you to a safe place to land.