Stillwater south season closer and two piece rod biulding party

Wow good read and way to end the season.  I'm pretty sure they will make good on that rod.  Let us know what happens with that in a general post.  I use g-loomis rods because they are high end but can also be replaced without reason for 50 bucks.  They  have even replace several without charge that I broke in a door.  I paid fifty recently for two that my rabbit chewed the handles off of.  Hope it works out.  Andy

Most excellent report Kris . Fantastic pics. Your amazing David racing down there twice in one week. Awesome you guys got into some lings. Good job thanks for the detailed report. Brian

man thats weird.  I showed up with two rods, my shimano and cabelas rod.  The cabela rod tip was all messed up, not sure what happened  but it had severed near the top, not broken off, but like the ring came off and slid down the rod.  The gods were angry at salt striker rods that day!

ended up with a nice 27 inch ling, and an assorted stringer of grass, coppers, blacks.  Also caught the skinniest legal ling of my life, must be a model.  Sent him back to fatten up.  Nice wrap to the season. 

met lots of NCKA types out there, nice to meet some new faces, and good to see you old salts

Eugene

Rob (Diroblo) and I left Sac about 0330 Friday morning, got on the water about 0800. Fished outside the cove until 1400 or so.  Choppy, swells about 4-8 ft, windy all day and picked-up in the afternoon.  Fishing was good - underlings on first two drifts, C&R'd about 20 assorted rockies, kept a nice red.

We stayed over Friday night and launched in the dark on Sat morning about 0600. Paddled outside the cove into calm, FAC conditions - beautiful dawn.  Wind began to blow an hour after sunrise and the swell and chop built all morning.  Fished outside till about 1100.  C&R'd 8 assorted rockies and kept a cool red-orange 25.5" ling with a 7" rockfish in it's gut. Fished inside the cove until about 1400 for 6 or so C&R'd fish.  Met up with David, Chris and Eugene outside, and then met Stoggie and Porky at the takeout.  Good seeing and meeting folks.
Thanks Rob for another great trip.

Take care - John

great report way to close out the season. how do you like that cuda 350. I am looking to upgrade to a GPS model. I have been happy with the low end cuda i have

I like it.  I choose it over the color version because it has a slightly larger screen based on advertised size.  To be fair, it is the first and only one I have ever used, but I think it works great.  I have the transducer mounted on the tip of the rudder.
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Cool thanks. Color is nice but I'll use the extra battery drain for GPS vs. color. You'll have to post pics of the rudder 'ducer mount. Never seen it done that way

I posted the hobie rudder mounted transducer on our rigging section at
http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/index.php/topic,21431.0.html