Summer in Paradise 19 June 2010

Stayed at a friend's house in SF last night and woke up this morning at 0430 to the windows rattling in the wind.  Decided to head to Paradise anyway to check things out.  Arrived at the gate at 0700 and barely a breeze.  Apparently the ridge was blocking the SW wind as Paradise Cove was warm, flat, and with barely a breeze all day from the SW and W.  Long day OTW from 0730-1630, mostly drifting shiners, a bit of jigging.  Fished with Gabe (Eldorado) and Rob (Diroblo).  Good fishing with you guys as always. Fishing was slow, only one very soft bite all day, landed a 24.25" butt.  Marked alot of bait, a few times there were a few baitfish busting on the surface, some pelican and grebe feeding, but slow fishing all through the outgoing and incoming tides.  Amazingly beautiful day at Paradise, especially given the forecast.   

Great job John Nice to get a little pay for your effort , Paradise seams to be tough this year

Congrat on the nice catch!  Looks like the Halibuts are late getting there this year.  We're catching lots of them in May and June last year.  Thanks for the report and pictures John.

Boom Boom Baby! WTG Johnny. Thanks for the OTW reports. It blew hard all over the bay except for there.

That's my kind of slow day.

Nice job!  Kind of unhappy we pulled the plug but with the wind forecast, just did not want to risk it.
Good job guys.

Nice job John!!

Great looking fish!

Glad you got out there and enjoyed the day with good friends!

Thank you for sharing!
 
Sincerely,

Jim

WTG on the hali John. Yeah, it seems very slow this year. I wonder if it will pickup
or if it will be like this for the rest of the summer.

Jedmo

once again John, you can catch'em at Paradise when others can't

Still can't believe I was fishing Capitola yesterday morning and hit Paradise that afternoon, speaking of butts, mine is sore!

Congrats again, maybe next time you can hook one for me and let me reel it in!

wtg go john, you made that hard work and persistence pay off! U got me drooling to get back out there now!

nice fish john, congrats, cameron

You're On Fire this year John! WTG on the halibut. 

Hats off to you  John,Congratulations  to  you amigo! Icouldnt  make  it till almost 11 when I Im set  up  I radio and  ask  hows it  going  and  where  you be? John replies location and  thats  hes  freaked  out(this flat brown thing  on stringer keeps following  me  around) :smt044Iran  down the  launch.I missed  one bite,he  bit the  top of  the shinner missing both  hooks :smt012Gourgeous  day,next  time.Good to meet Rdiblo Robb,great  try bro,Gabe

Bird, i'm beginning, to getting used to seeing you with some type of fish in your hands, while in your kayak.
you are on it!!
Thanks for the follow up and pics(of envy)     

Looks like a cool spot, I need to go there one day! Nice fish!


Dude, FisHunter your avatar pic is funny as hell.... what the heck is going on in that pic