MBK Sun 5/3

Slow.  We fished the kelp beds off DelMonte, and tried the yellow buoy area in 70 FOW.  Scratch bite, sadly.  One guy got 3 RF, I got one gopher, and Sansano got one bolina.  both Allen and I CandR'd underlings, mine was 23 3/4.  So close yet so far.



Conditions were Ok, though the wind kicked up a few times, and a few sprinkles.

No fish tacos tonight, though ah well.

Allen

Way to give it hell Allen.We didnt do much better in Stillwater...Andy

Thanks Andy,

yeah sounds like Coral St was the spot for Monterey this weekend.  Or Garrapata with the hell-boys.

Santa Cruz is pretty slow too since opener, and north to ano.  Some lings are biting and a smattering of rockfish.

Nice day to be fishing though.  What day isn't.  And we had a good crew with a great attitude, which makes it all worth it.

Allen, I am glad you made it to the water. I am just chomping at the bit for June 1 up here. I guess the DFG thinks that north-central people have issues with impatience that need to be dealt with. Good luck in all future endeavors. Thanks for the report. I was out of town and thinking the southern opener would be WFO and I guess it was here and there.

Oh come on Allen, I got a bolina AND a gopher.  Hah!

The bait is gone.  That's the story of my weekend.  I fished Santa Cruz on Saturday looking for BOB (Big Ocean Butt), but Botchie Boy was out of bait and I couldn't sabiki any.  Zig zag drifted with squid from the mile buoy all the way into Blacks Point.  No love from anything.

Sunday it was nice to join Allen at MBK.  I played scout trying to find a bite while Allen rode herd on his clients.  Couldn't sabiki up anything today either.  The kelp is thin at MBK and so were the fish yesterday.

Always a pleasure to fish with Team Allen.

-Allen

I fished Santa Cruz on Saturday looking for BOB (Big Ocean Butt), but Botchie Boy was out of bait and I couldn't sabiki any.  Zig zag drifted with squid from the mile buoy all the way into Blacks Point.  No love from anything.

Thanks for the "cross-post" about Santa Cruz.  I was thiiiiiis close to launching out of cowells on saturday, instead of trekking down to SWS.  I usually do early season conditioning paddles/short trips out of cowells to Long Aquarium and back, off the water by 1000.

Slow.  We fished the kelp beds off DelMonte, and tried the yellow buoy area in 70 FOW.  Scratch bite, sadly. 

When the bite is thin, do your clients have more motion sickness?  Hope to fish with you soon, Allen.

Legal 'buts caught off Del Monte this morning. You missed it by a day Allen hahahaha!

None of the clients got sea sick happily.

One of them DID have a halibut follow his swimbait up tothe surface, though, sonded legal like 26-28" perhaps from his description.  This at 40 FOW, how cool.

I was soaking a whole squid all day with big butt hopes, to no avail.

We were not down by the hotel, just off the concrete bunker and theat wood arehouse building, wehre I took pix of you patrick..... then out at the buoys.

I think we just need the water to warm a bit bring in the bait and the RF will follow.

Allen

Or Garrapata with the hell-boys.

  I resemble that remark 

"We are the ones our parents warned us about." unknown, then me.

Etienne

Or Garrapata with the hell-boys.

Oh so true.  I've always felt a bit afraid of Garrapata, since the time Steve S and I nearly did not make it back to that pocket beach for landing.  The wind came up so quickly and strong it took everything I had to paddle upwind, and no plan B, really, that didn't entail rappelling..

Nice payoff when it works, though.

Hope to fish with you guys this summer, Etienne

Allen

Good news forthat day was 'discovering' Stillwater South.  It was like night and day, calm glassy.

Good fishing at both spots that day though.

  I resemble that remark 

"We are the ones our parents warned us about." unknown, then me.

Etienne

Or Garrapata with the hell-boys.

  I resemble that remark 

"We are the ones our parents warned us about." unknown, then me.

+1 

no bait, cold water and storm surge= rf lockjaw