Stillwater Cove - Carmel (10/22)

Saturday - 10/22/05

The calm before the storm.

Seeing how Sunday was going to have the big swell, I decided to hit it this morning. There were two fisherman already on the water and three others just getting unloaded when I pulled up at 7ish. A couple free divers also showed up.

I paddled out of the cove and to the right to fish out from the tiny little shacks no to far down. I was into pretty good action all day. The green magic zzinger (iron type lure) produced the most. Rootbeer fish traps fished along the edge of the kelp produced the bigger olives. Shrimp flies produced a lot of small fish, but two fish on at a time is kinda fun.

I ended up keeping a couple good olives. I did get to see a big sea lion pop out of the water with a big bright red vermilion. He quickly munched it down.

The freedivers said there were some nice fish 20-30' from the rocks just as you exit the cove to the right.

FYI - It was cold out there.

Good luck if you are going out tomorrow.

Marc Mc

Thanks, Marc
Yep, despite the forcast,   we will be hitting it 7ish.  We hope that they will be as far off tomorrow as they are today.  Monterey was a lake all day!
Pat

Good luck!
It was some of the nicer water conditions I have seen out there, so hopefully it will be good tomorrow as well.

Marc