Salmon fishing

This is my first year Kayaking and fishing in the ocean. I've had lot of fun fishing rockfish, macs and sardines in HMB, Capitola and Monterey.
I'd like to nudge this up and try fishing for Salmon, and I'd love to have some direction:
 - Where to go, including location, dept
 - when?
 - the setup?

Obviously these are very basic questions, yet I need to start somewhere:)

C-

right now I would try Santa Cruz towards Capitola.  I only have caught one so no expert but I used my rockfish trevala rod with a 10 oz sinker on a sinker release.  Behind that was a FBR with a nice chovy in it.  http://www.sheltonproducts.com/

If I did it again I would use a heavier weight 12 or 16 ounce.  Let out around 30-40 pulls, "roughly a foot of line pwer pull" and troll around 80 FOW till you find the fish.  Troll speed for me was anywhere between 1.5 to 3 mph.

good luck

Eugene

I would add to have a second rod rigged up for mooching with a barbless circle hook.
Then you can take a break from trolling and just drift.