Sand Dab in Santa Cruz

those little bastards!!!

lets go get'um Bill......

This was first drop out of moss today.  Got limits of crab too.

Nice stringer 

Eees a big yak with a beeeg engine.
Fished straight out about 2 miles, edge of canyon, 220-350.  When we were in deeper water, we were targeting suspended fish about half way down.  These are usually the bigger ones.   Most fish were not on bottom as u would expect.  Fishfinder was lit up most of the day with clouds of the little buggers.  A good ff helps when looking for the suspended fish.  I use google earth when looking for spots along the canyon to fish.

hey were you at J&D auto today...aka 'gone fishing' in seaside

Nope but I was there Wednesday.  It's my favorite tackle shop in our neck of the woods.

Albycor -

Check it out, you "Are" a "Sand Dab" on your NCKF "status" on this forum, but you are "The Man" when it comes to the SC sand dab.

Good catch!

PS. I was a former member of the Capitola Surf Club 'circa 1967 to 1972'.

Izodout-  thanks for the words. 
Unfortunately about 2 years ago, just as I was getting into kayaking and this site,  I blew out my back.  Ended up selling all of my yak gear.  Now I'm stricktly a boater.  Been fishing the Monterey bay for almost 20 years.
Made some good friends on this site and learned a lot so I decided to try and post more and possibly share what little knowledge I have or bite reports.

Now I'm strictly a boater brother.

Fixed it for you.

-Allen

Thas a lot of dabs!  Two miles def w in pedal distance

Thanks for the advices Albycor and keep them coming. Very useful for a newbie like me and maybe one day I will be able to post the same kind of pictures

Went again today.  This is a screen shot showing em suspended 60 ft off the bottom.  At times,  we had em going 150 off the bottom.  Needless to say we caught a few of em.

So I took the day off Friday as I was supposed to work in the backyard with my wife but decided to hit Moss Landing and try my luck with Sand dab again

Got there and met John on the parking lot and had a little chat for a while.

Then I went straight toward the buoy and fish around there in about 250ft of water on the right side. I only caught 2 small ones that I released... I tried different spots and depth but much luck... I did see a few bait balls on my fish finder though.
The wind was picking up and I was a bit cold (need to get proper appropriate layers)... So I got home on time for lunch after having a good time OTW.