Capitola 6/8/06, not what I was looking for.

But fun anyway.  No flatties, but rock fish season is going to be good. Went off of the beach to the west of the pier. Piece of cake; FAC.  Allen met me and we fished for a couple of hours til he had to leave.  Slight wind chop, warm.  I got what looked like , but for June, would be ,a legal cabbie , a couple of queenfish, one left one of the herring Allen had left for me (thanks) and I clipped him on, sent him down and in a few minutes had a hitchhiking ling with the whole damn thing down his gut head first, he got off near the surface after a few elevator runs.  Three other lings, one clearly legal, all on Allen's herring.  A couple of gophers as well. I was trying to stay over the sandy areas, too.
   No halibut, tho.  A few other boats and what looked like the crew of a big Stagnaro boat didn't look like they had much action, but I'm not sure.   Wind came up about 1 as I was out in about 50 ft of water, but it calmed as I got back in a mile from the launch. Water about 60 degrees.
 
   DIRECTIONS: I live within a couple of miles of the place and had never yakked there, because I didn't know where to park, mostly, tho the surf can get surfable there, too. 
 No problems dropping off the yak, going up the hill to Stockton/ East Cliff, thence southwest to  47th, then north to Jade (I think Prospect's terminus with 47th is open but the road is chained off on the northeast end, by 49th, by the mobile home folks), right to south on 49th, left (northeast)  on the public part of Prospect on the north side of the RR tracks, park there in the no meter no limit zone (some of the surrounding area has permit-only parking on weekends maybe beginning at 10 or 11, I don't recall noticing those signs on Prospect).  From there, you walk down across the tracks to Stockton/East Cliff and back to the ramp/sandy beach. This is only about 6 blocks and goes in a U, so you wind up above where you began.
    The steep ramp is only about 20-30 long, beach sand at the end, 30-100 feet to the water.  No point in driving down the ramp.  I have the Rolleez big wheels, but it was still an effort to pull the loaded yak back up the ramp, easy from there.  I just rolled it up the hill back to my truck, going thru the mobile home park part of Prospect and under the chain, tho I could have brought the truck down to ramp, but I needed to unkink my legs.

Well, my 6:00 am conference call with the Europe guys went long -- until 10:00 am + -- leaving me not enough time to go out this morning. 

I did take my radio with me to charge at the office and so I swung by the Capitola pier afterwards and chatted briefly with Tom and Allen as they fished.  I could see them drifting out by the red bouy... MAN was I jealous.  At least there weren't any halibut caught -- then I'd be really steamed.

Anyway, glad to hear you guys had a good run and plenty of rockfish.  But where the hell are the flatties?

When I came in at 11, Ed Burrell zipped up on his zodiac and told me a bunch of undersized flatties were caught right off the beach, literally at the launch point!

he said he tried to radio me, but i gues my radio was stuck on 69 and off of the "scan" function.

the guys on the pire were pulling them in up to about 16-18 inches....not big enough to keep, but a good sign. Prolly the males, Mike Baxter tells me.

I'll try try again on Saturday in Monterey with the clinic at MBK>

Good to be out there with you today, Tom, and great to hear from you Joel.. Sure wish I COULD have gotten you steamed!

LOL

Allen

Last week I went out of the harbor, paddled for 13 miles, got nothing, came in and heard a striper was caught at the jetty.
This week, after 6 miles at Capitola, you tell me I could have seen some kind of halibut on the beach!
Next week, I'll try that, and you know they'll be out a mile.

it seems that the striper move along the shoreline, so shorefishing for them ultimately might  be pretty effective, but
a lot more boring (until you catch one that is).  At least for ocean fishing, kayaking doesn't look like the way to get
striper or perch at least.

likewise, planted trout often kind of circle the lake shore in a group, so tossing out powerbait from the bank and waiting
for them to come by can be pretty effective as I saw on wednesday when I had two bass and the banker I spoke to
had 4 trout in his cooler, but he seemed kind of bored.

J