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Topic: Stillwater Cove (n. of Fort Ross) 9/9  (Read 858 times)

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piscolabis

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  • Location: Lotus (El Dorado Co.)
  • Date Registered: Aug 2005
  • Posts: 103
Went out with two friends and my best friend (my wife) yesterday morn. and fished from 10:30-3:30.   The first two dove for ab limits then we went out fishing.  They went north 1-2 miles and I stayed near the cove and fished the outer edge of kelp.  They caught blues, gophers, blacks and two vermillions (about 25 mostly C&R).  I caught ten and kept two gophers, two blacks and two Vermillions.  One of the Verms. was 19".  All were firsts for me.    I had three big take downs.  One was on a 10" Mission Mackeral swimbait fishing off a steep drop-off.  It went into the rocks and I had to break it off.  But I had a big scare while trying to break off the braided line.   I was maybe 75 yds from a shallow area of the kelp (prob. 500 yds off shore) and a large swell broke over the shallow with a huge sudden crash that scared the hell out of me. I got out fast.  Later I noticed that one swell every 10-15 min. broke over this spot.  My wife came out a bit later and it was nice to have someone closer to me. 
The conditions were calm with 7' swell and the high fog dissipated by 2 pm.
Now the whining part . . . I took my camera, but was too occupied with fishing to take pictures or even think of giving the camera to my wife.  So in lieu of those action shots, I took photos (of the leftovers after cleaning the catch) for all of you and the two swimbaits I was using.  All were caught on the imitation 5" anchovy swimbait which I bought at Oakland Outdoor Pro Shop.
I hope the fish waste posts.  I may be a first for this website, but I only post it for the doubters  (  :smt001 ).
Tom