Sur Limit Lingcabverm 6/10

Up at 4AM,I pounded some coffee to wake up for the long drive south.Met Sackyak in Carmel and the conditions there were flat calm with very light swell.We decided to make the run south.On the drive south we passed a nice bunch of wild turkey and several rabbit along the road between Molera and Burns.
Launched from the spot around 7AM after saying good morning to two local yakfishers in a scrambler and a scupper pro.Sackyak made it out first...making the surf launch look easy.I waited out a couple breakers and charged out nice and dry.


The water was clear and seemed to be warming with a huge bloom of comb jellies.After a short paddle, we set up shop on the edge of the kelp and started jiggin'.On the second drop with the blue mega I get slammed by a 31" ling!



With the fantastic weather we decided to search points south of the launch and prospect some reefs and rock ledges.I soon picked up another 27" ling on a stinger-rigged swim bait.



I got into a steady bite on medium blues,gophers,kelps and added a nice red copper rf to the clip.Sackyak C&Red several medium to small rf, but he had used up his fish karma slaying lings and verms several days the previous week and never landed the trophy he was hunting.I paddle over to where Sackyak is fishing and start working the bottom with a white scampi when...WHAMO!I'm in for another drag ripping battle.Thinking I might have another ling, I was pleasantly surprised to find I had hooked into a fat 20" cabby.After bouncing the gaff off this toad's hard skull,I finally get a good angle with my EKZ floating gaff and lift her into the T13.Out of instinct,I began to lip grip the cab like a bass, but realized the powerful mouth could easily turn a 5" ab into a seafood cocktail and opted to slide it from the gaff onto the game clip.With a heavy tank well, I start pot holing the kelp to round out my limit for an MBK staff BBQ/fish fry this Sunday.I get into a WFO bite on some chunky blues and add a puffy 18" verm to the stringer.
With a nice limit of ling and rf I call it a day and start heading in with Sackyak.We played safe on the landing and timed sets for a bit before our textbook landing on the now shrinking beach at high tide.
As Sin Coast said in a previous post, for us these are the "good ol' days"!




Never been so stoked to have sore arms.Let's do it again Sackyak!

wow, great day arron, thx for the pics and report, cameron

See, it's posts like this that make me long for the days of spontaneous days off

Nice goin'-take advantage of the conditions when they are primo!

great report!

SWEET!
WTG

You lucky dogs! Hopefully the swell stays down and the wind doesn't blow this wknd.
Ahhh, the good ole days....back in 09....

Aaron thats a nice haul and the ocean looked super flat. What a day!

Beautiful pics... nice report. ....looks like a perfect day.. .. I hope to get there someday this season.

Gue

Sick glass impressive stringers!

Nice fish. Looks like you had great conditions! Way to go

Makin' it look easy. That's a nice limit!

Z

Great report, thanks!

Good stuff.  Dig that ling in the lap pic.   

Nice good job

Up at 4AM,I pounded some coffee to wake up for the long drive south.Met Sackyak in Carmel and the conditions there were flat calm with very light swell.We decided to make the run south.On the drive south we passed a nice bunch of wild turkey and several rabbit along the road between Molera and Burns.
Launched from the spot around 7AM after saying good morning to two local yakfishers in a scrambler and a scupper pro.Sackyak made it out first...making the surf launch look easy.I waited out a couple breakers and charged out nice and dry.

Beautiful Stringer, where did you caught them the water is so calm, I don't mind driving far if I get a stringer like good job!!