Big Sure 7/15

Headed down to big sir today and met up with Aaron. Water Conditions at the launch got the best of me today. Yes I got dunk and had a little yard sale. Lost was minimal. My prescription Glasses fell to the bottom of the sea and my broken Kodak was submerged in sea water and lost all the pictures. Oh, well time to up grade.

I finally got out after 30 min of studdying the sets. Once i got out I felt totally allone It was so foggy but the ocean was flat and I  couldn't see the small fleet of yaks that launched earlier. So I started to call out on channel 69 to get a general location. Once i caught up with the fleet we all started to catch fish. It started out slow but in the end I managed to get my limit of RF's.

Today catch 4 verms largest 21" 2@ 19" and 1@ 18", 2 Olives, 2 blues, and 2 small gofers that Mom ask for me to keep if i caught any. All fish were caught using squid on a Hi /Lo leader. and size 7/0 hooks. Surprisingly no lings were caught today.Oh on the way in I took another dunk. Nothing lost all secure. All
good
pics taken at home.

Alex

Nice Reds! Congrat on your catches and thanks for the report and pictures.

sounds like a fun day minus losing the glasses and fog. Big Sur seems like quite the davey jones locker. Nice haul

Nice cooler full of rock fish way to go thanks for the report:smt006.

Pat R

I can smell the tacos from here, nice fish!

Yes very, very nice...good lookiing reds...just wish I was cooking them up for dinner!!!

Nice haul Alex congrats dude.

I see a trend here. Get in all the fishing you can before.....
 

Really nice limit there, Alex. Too bad about the dunkings and the lost stuff. I'm hoping my first post-surf-class launch goes better, but we'll see. Was the surf much bigger than what we practiced in at MBK?

Andy

What your camera is dead?!?!??! I am so sad cause that camera always made me laugh when you took it out. For those that did not get to see it I am pretty sure it wrote the pics to floppies, yes floppy disk and was about .3 megapixels!

Nice fish!

Yes, the shore break can be brutal sometimes. It definitely a fun day. I ended up with a 19" copper, 3 reds (largest 18") and 15" olive. Caught numerous gophers and blacks and a short greenling. Only saw 1 ling(short) caught all day.

WOW REDREDRED thats all I see , I know how you feel bout the garage sale been there..

Sure sounds like fun!!!! Great report thanks...

Way to get some fishin' in before the perma-ball&chain is clasped shut!   

Nice verms.   

This was a great session for me too.I ended up with a quality limit of verms, olives and blues, with my largest being a jumbo 22.5" olive.I'll post pics when I get home and I've got some more of Alien's puffy verms.

The light wind forecast brought out more kayak fishermen than I've ever seen in Sur, and on a weekday no less.Met up with Alien, Bear, RYAK, Zisco and at least six other yakfishers at around 7AM.This was a great crew with lots of experience and great attitudes all around.Although someone should have taken my safety/surf class.

Sorry about the baptisms Alex and I'm glad you and Bear were able to find us in the pea soup fog.This stuff was DENSE and visibility was less than 30ft at times.Good reason to have (and be proficient with) compass and GPS if fishing Sur (or anywhere in the salt IMO).At one point I got separated from Alien and Bear and hailed them to head South to my position where I was hooking fish.They headed southwest and were fooled by a pelican standing on a pile of drift kelp into paddling farther off shore.When the fog broke for an hour or so mid-day, they got their bearing and found themselves paddling out to sea toward Mexico.They found me and we fished together for the rest of the afternoon.

The conditions were almost surreal.The wind was almost nonexistent and the swell light NW 2-4.I felt like things (wash rocks,kelp,seals,huge lion's mane jellies and kayakers) were appearing and disappearing in the fog all day.With very light tidal surge throughout the day, the bite was spotty. We had some luck on the verms and coppers early on the deeper reef  in 98 FOW.When that bite slowed we worked the kelp and wash rocks to the south.Almost as if a second session entirely, we headed back north of the launch and rounded out our limits.We spent 8 hrs on the water and even with a gel pad my butt was sore.Frisco said his legs were going numb when he headed in with his fat verms.

We got back to the landing not a moment too soon, as the incoming tide was swallowing the beach and cutting off our portage around the point.We topped off the session with a fun beach chill and plenty of "safety meetings" on the beach. Good times with an awesome crew.NCKA rules!