Trinidad 5/23/21

Got out near flat iron yesterday for some rock fishing. They liked the anchovy and had a blast hooking a diversity of rockfish! I was probably fishing for 1.5 hrs and could have landed a limit but decided to let most go. I couldn’t help retaining that nice vermillion and canary. Too pretty! With the high winds and big swell this spring it has kept a lot of us off the water. Our local ocean-going salmon have been enjoying themselves out there I’m sure! High nw winds and cold cold ocean temperature anomalies all late winter/spring unlike we’ve had in a few years bodes well.

I also scored 3 legal dungees after sorting through many clickers...

dude I was out there as well w LoletaEric and Davethesynthguy. i kept catching a bunch of smaller blacks on my blue shrimp fly and then got into a bunch of lings on the swimbait but I couldn't score any color! I was thinking about how the crab are doing way to drop a pot man.

way to get out and on it. Gorgeous sea conditions!

Two buddies and I went up to Trinidad for the first time this weekend (5/22-5/23), just going out of the harbor.  (My local haunt is Santa Cruz.)

We had no idea where to go, so we just looked around for structure and dropped shrimp flies with squid to see what we could get.  Ended up with some very nice black rockfish.  After talking to a couple of locals later, we've got a better idea where to head on the next trip out so we can get some lings.  Beautiful weather, with the swell flattening out on Sunday, made the trip totally worth it.

-Fork

Missed seeing you out there - we hung on the pinnacles south of FI.  Nice verm, Max!

 

my thumbs are so torn up from grippen lips then I got spiked a couple times while filleting lol, nice reminder of my weekend for the work week.

Glad to see you guys are getting some.

Coho Joe and I also went out at Trinidad on Sunday. Great to meet Yaad and David, it was our first time out kayak fishing for this year. We followed David and Eric in an investigation of pinnacles on the outside and it did not disappoint.

David got on the board first with a chunky black rockfish just short of being under the lighthouse as we made our way out around the rock. We then moved further out and explored. I caught a nice selection of rockfish as well as a 29" Ling. We all caught mutiple species, I kept 5, released several more. Water conditions were great, the fan didn't come until afternoon. swell was light.

Nice time visiting on the beach, too. Very fun day and stoked on getting back OTW. Thanks guys!

good fishing man thats a huge black on your stringer DAMN

So jealous right now after reading this report. If only I knew the weather was gonna be as nice as it was😭😭😭

dude I was out there as well w LoletaEric and Davethesynthguy. i kept catching a bunch of smaller blacks on my blue shrimp fly and then got into a bunch of lings on the swimbait but I couldn't score any color! I was thinking about how the crab are doing way to drop a pot man.

Right on! I think I saw you out on the water. I was targeting the same general zone I think. Good to see you got into the lings!

Missed seeing you out there - we hung on the pinnacles south of FI.  Nice verm, Max!

 

That’s a dandy! Nice going davethesynthguy!