Beautiful day OTW at Fort Ross Aug 2nd

Met Kiel and his outlaws...oop I meant in-laws  at 4:45am and loading up the kayaks.  Amazing how they can jam 4 kayaks into this small pickup truck!


We stopped on top of the hill to take a picture of the foggy valley.  What a beautiful view!


Met and said hello to Chad/Chadrock and Sarah


We carried the kayaks to the beach and getting ready to launch


The launch was a piece of cake since the water was FAC


A flock of birds flew over in nice formation

I tried my luck at the edge of the kelp bed


Saw lots of jellyfish swimming by so I tried to take an underwater picture of one


Caught a couple of Blacks & Coppers but no Ling so I paddled out to deeper water. Caught a couple more of Blacks, Chinas, and Copper again.  No love from Vermillion or Ling for me today!

Some OTW pictures






My catches of the day


Kiel's catches


His in-laws' catches

Time to go home and clean the fish


What a beautiful day and breath taking view!!!




Until we hit the traffic jam on highway 1!


Hope the weather stays nice like this for the next weekend 

What a nice day at the Fort.  That place is China heaven.  At least you didn't have to risk your life getting your kayaks down the hill.

a picture perfect day at the fort. very nice

Great report! It was nice to meet you guys out there. We couldn't have asked for a better day OTW. That back-up definitely gave us all time to reflect on the day's events. What a view though.

Nice day at Fort Ross, I caught mostly blacks no lings for me.    by the way nice pictures Sonny, but you miss to take a shot  with the sea lion trying to jump in to my kayak man. F@#$ing scared the hell out of me. 


Kiel

Nice day at Fort Ross, I caught mostly blacks no lings for me.    by the way nice pictures Sonny, but you miss to take a shot  with the sea lion trying to jump in to my kayak man. F@#$ing scared the hell out of me. 
Kiel

I saw the incidence but it was gone when I got the camera ready to shoot!

Here is another the shot of the FAC ocean!


Someone mentioned that day about a possible missing ab diver.  We saw the coast guard's vessel anchored in the shallow and looks like they're doing somekind of search and recovery activity!  I searched the news this morning but found nothing about it.  Anybody know/hear something about this?

Man, glad they got that jam figured out by the time The Horseshoe Challengers headed home.

When I went through there at 5:45PM they had a CHP officer waiving people through.

Nice day on the water fellas (and lady!). Thanks for the report.

Nice day at Fort Ross, I caught mostly blacks no lings for me.    by the way nice pictures Sonny, but you miss to take a shot  with the sea lion trying to jump in to my kayak man. F@#$ing scared the hell out of me. 


Kiel

I wonder if something wash chasing it for dinner?  I saw thing on a show once where a seal jumped in boat when it was being chased by a GWS.

 Maybe those divers were looking for the missing ab dinner.

Maybe those divers were looking for the missing ab dinner.

They're using SCUBA gears!

Way to hookup the crew, Sonny - great pics and report as always.