East of Japan - 10/11/09

Looks like a sweet day Eric! Thanks for sharing - John

Hey AK,

Very nice East of Japan south of Ferndale (not to blow up the spot), spent a year up between Eureka and Arcata and have fished the jettys and Trinidad with my pops a time or two.

Even though we never ended up with a fat Ab or a black still remember those couple of days well. That southern section of the coast must take alot of exploring before you come up with the sea food.

Thanks for the post and pics, takes me back,

-Tsuri

Wait a minute here...If Japan is to the East of U.S. then that place should be somewhere West of Japan right?    Thanks for sharing the trip with us and the pictures + video are awesome as always!

Absolutely AWESOME!!!!

So cool that you got to spend that quality time with your boy!!!!!!!

REALLY hope my daughter will be into getting OTW with me soon!!!

THANK YOU for sharing!!

Sincerely,

Jim

nice! nothing better than spending time with your son. Some of my best trips have been when hes with me

Eric, your adventures with your family always tug at the heart strings. Keep them coming.


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nice! nothing better than spending time with your son. Some of my best trips have been when hes with me

I'll second that.....

must take alot of exploring before you come up with the sea food.

You hit that nail on the head, Tsuri.   

Cool report Eric.  



Regarding your mystery fish skull.. it's not a ling or a salmonid.  Rather, it's a Merluccius productus (a.k.a. Pacific Hake or Pacific whiting).  I did my graduate school work on its Atlantic cousin Merluccius bilinearis.  http://www.int-res.com/abstracts/meps/v196/p279-290/

Here's an image of a whole Pacific whiting from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.

Awesome report Abking your kid is a lucky dude!



-Eliot

Sweeeeet, Brian!  Thank you so much for ID'ing that fish.  I used to catch those when we were salmon trolling out of Humboldt Bay.  I've heard they're decent eating but so delicate that you must immediately clean and ice them or they're mush.  We never ate one.

thanks for the nice day on a far away beach......our beaches down here have been stripped of anything cool or old that may have been washed up.

our beaches down here have been stripped of anything cool or old that may have been washed up.

I hear what you're saying, but I do know of a very cool little hidden beach south of Pigeon where we used to find lots of treasures...  I'd like to go back there some day.  I'll try to post some pics of it later.

Great post again Eric!
 The shore structure looks familiar, but they didn't allow fires on the beach where I was

I did a beach trek with my wife & the little wolf-dog on Saturday. We found some neat stuff at a nice little protected beach very south of PP. I think FW had a contest there this year

Looks like good times, thanks for the report Eric!

Gotta love the NCKA "Gear-barrow" . . . .

Ahhh, the great eastern Pacific provides a bountiful harvest once more.
Cool mystery skull too. Andy caught some Pacific whiting out of Moss Landing last year: http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/index.php/topic,13945.0.html