once upon a time, off a beach far, far away...there were fish.

Thick fog descended as Aaron, Bigwavedave, & I roll into the parking lot. We reach the beach to find melted haystacks of rotting kelp to "give character" to the launch. Maximum wave height was forecast at 8 feet. I think that was pretty right on.
50 feet out from the launch a big Bottlenose spouts and flexes his back at us as he passes. Auspicious....
Anyway, I fished scampis in the usual colors and ran a teaser hoochie later in the morning, in 30-60 fow.
The company today was excellent. Wind wasn't too bad until after noon. Not a bad day at all.

I tried a little fresh mojo on the kayak today & it worked.
Ran into these two fellows below hanging in close to the kelp forest.

WTG on the matched set! I just got back from the beach up here/sonoma coast. A little WAF time but I did get to surf. The wind was down low up here too. Forecast was for 15-25kts. Wished I could've hit it. Thanks for the report. jim

Nice. Did you carve the totem? The fish are cool. The totem is off the hook. My dream is to carve a totem with all ravens. Congrats on getting out. Did you just have to wait between sets? Or bust thru on the way out?

Great looking twin lings there, boss. Nice job. How deep were those lings holding? Thanks for the report and pics

Nice lings WTG Bro!!! 



Kiel

Caught and released a total of eight gophers among other small to medium rf.No floaters as we were fishing shallow reef, mostly less than 50ft.


23.75" underling CPR


14" male greenling... a perfect mate for the female I caught weds at Garrapata


black,blue and greenling came home for tacos

 PISCEAN muscled two keeper ling from deep kelp cover;surf's up in the background


Score!

Check out the tribal paddle. Looks flat on the outside.

Nice work guys! Looks like a fun surf spot.

Congrat on the nice catches.  Thanks for the report and pictures.

Great pics Aaron! I had a really great day fishing with you & Dave.

I honored yesterday's fish by cooking up half of one lingcod "cal-asian rockfish" style that afternoon (recipe on here courtesy of SBD) with fresh grown green onions. The dish is an indicator of summer's arrival at my house.

Nice. Did you carve the totem? The fish are cool. The totem is off the hook. My dream is to carve a totem with all ravens. Congrats on getting out. Did you just have to wait between sets? Or bust thru on the way out?

Yep, I carved the totem/tiki last winter to watch over our front door. It took a couple weeks of spare time. I used an 8' piece of madrone log, an electric chainsaw, mallet& chisels. I did the tattoo work with a woodburning tool. He's got a handline with a feathered lure held in front of him

The waves get concentrated at the point, so the launch wasn't too bad. When we landed the kelp obstruction and oddball rock shelves made it a little technical, even though the waves faces on that part of the beach were only a couple feet. FUN!

Check out the tribal paddle.

Yeah I try to get my artwork in places where I see it all the time; kitchen spoons, knife handles, tabletops,...kayak paddles. It infiltrates everything Our house is constantly getting new decorations. I'm fortunate that my wife encourages it to no end.

My new mojo is a carved wooden fishook with an ab shell barb that I hung off the bow of the kayak. Never underestimate the power of mojo....there's a reason those guys on the NOrthwestern bite the head off a herring before each season

I believe that. There was a time I am fishing wity my Norweigien friend hes kisses the anchovie for good luck. The result: 32 lb king.

Good work guys! Them are some choice fish......Very Nice

Great report - keep the art and mojo flowin'.   

surf's up in the background

Banzai!  nice outing you guys.  that's how to beat the heat

Congrats on the couple of lings PISCEAN. Cool art work too BTW.

Jedmo