Stillwater on Sunday

I hope to get my daughter out Sunday at Stillwater, on the tandem.  it will be her first ocean kayak fishing.  Hope the weather cooperates, and love to have company.

Allen

Allen,

I haven't decided yet whether to launch from MBK or Stillwater.  In any case, I'll launch around 7am, so I may see you there.  Anyone else wants to go and has a preference?

Henry

Howdy Allen,

Randy and I were hoping to hit the cove this weekend too.  We may end up passing if conditions don't begin to look better.  Last Sunday was a way lucky window with the way conditions have been the last few weeks.  

You planning on dawn?

Pat

I've never launched at Stillwater and would like to try when someone's around and if it isn't too rough.  Right now it looks possible, with the wind the question mark.  I will assume you're launching at dawn.  I'll have my radio - 69?  Fuzzy tom

gosh I hope the wether is OK...  My plan is to launch at daybreak which I think is around 6:30AM.  Pat and Randy, Fuzzy tom, and dolphin.... Eric PM'd me so he might show up as well.

I'd love to hit the pinnacle, but I'm not sure where exactly ithat is....hope you and Randy can make it, Pat.  

My daughter is a bit tentative, is the pinnacle way out there?  She should be ok, and we can always poke around the cove.  I have some abalone guts which I hear are da kine cabezone bait.

I'll check the NOAA forecast and post on this thread later tonight or tomorrow.

Allen

Two weeks ago it was a washtub of the first order.  That was sobering but it is rare.  Clearly the swell was not truly out of the NW.

The pinnacles are about 1.3 miles from the launch.  You are well within sight of the rocky shore all the way.  If we make it, I have it dialed in on my GPS..........no charge for the guide service.......

Randy and Ed got their cabezon out at those pinnacles.  The spot that I got my lovely cabbie in is just on the outside of those first rocks that you pass heading to the pinnacles........

Also, if you just paddle southwest, you will find sand 80-100 feet of water which usually has large olive rockfish and sand dabs (and of course blues when they spill over from everywhere else.......

We usually find lings either at the pinnacles, just west of the first point on your right as you launch or even by those first rocks.

At the moment, it looks like Henry has the easier if not prettier launch site dialed in.

Pat

Woohoo I am in as well!!! Hope the swell holds. I have to go to make sure if Pat catches a big ole cabby I can accidental cut her stringer  

Pretty sure Joel is joining the fun as well.

I'm in! I've never fished in Stillwater so I guess this would be the best time to do it. Can't beat a crew like this!  

Fuzzy Tom = channel 69 it is....

If Still Water is too rough would MBK be a good back-up plan?

Based on the current NOAA forecast, MBK will be a far less attractive but reasonable back up.
Pat

Bill, don't think that I didn't hope for an abalone filled belly rather than the two large crabs that last one had.......I'm still hunting......

Bill and Mooch!

Cool!!  I have a good feeling about this.  hey bill, am i entered in the cabbie/ling contest.  I can't remember what I signed up on.... just in case.......


Mooch, you're gonna love stillwater.  it's a perfect little cove with a few big rocks out in the middle, and a channel going in to a little harbor.... cliffs and rocks to the North and sand and kelp to the south.  It's protected from prevailing NW winds.  and LOTS of fish.  Steve S. says "It's almost not fair"  I've fished it like three times and had a blast each go-out.

I'm interested in this pinnacle area, and hope to make it over there,but just at the cove is really fun!

Allen

Yeah - I've heard from the other guys that StillWater is one of more scenic areas to paddle around! (just like Elk) I'm really looking forward to seeing this place. I'm afraid I might like it so much I might just "invade" the spare room over at Pat and Randy's place.  

I need some info on launching place. Would Allen or Mooch point out the road leading to the launch point?

Continue S on Hwy1 past Monterey
Take 17 mile scenic dr exit
pay your $8
after gate, go downhill
follow this road, veering right after a mile or so (stay on 17 mile Dr)
Make a LEFT into Pebble Beach Resort- toward BEACH & Tennis CLUB (it looks like you are driving into the golf course- you are)
Next LEFT- look for the Beach Club and coastal access signs
Continue all the way past the coastal access parking, and the beach club to the very back parking lot. kind of behind the beach club
Unload, then go back and park in the coastal access parking

Just because we are such nice people, Randy and I went out for a morning walk around Carmel bay.  Since tomorrow's swell is supposed to be down a bit from today, we think it looks good for the pinnacles on Sunday AM.
If "you" are coming on Sunday and can buddy up with someone it is a good idea as there are only 6(8?) official coastal access parking places.  I've never heard of a problem from parking in the adjacent spaces but, just a word.........
One hates to miss a party in one's own backyard so we hope to make it as well.........
Pat....loading up her super secret mighty cabezon lure