bean hollow 2006/8/19

me and sixmhz drove down. met scallen and da mooch.  rockaway showed up a little later.

executive summary:  fishing pretty darn good if you like greenling, gophers, blues, blacks, vermillion, coppers, china, yellow and black, cabezon, lingcod and halibut, and sea stars. cause that's what we caught and lots of them. 

I brought home a cabezon, a ling and seven rockfish (because I'm in love with my new smoker and it needs fresh meat) and farmed a legal halibut with some spaz gaff moves (I was 2-2, now I'm 2-3).  I did not use any bait or tip my jigs, I used a 3.5 oz anchovy megabait with a gamakatsu assist hook (510 model) on the tail. mooch dubbed it the 'bleeding tail mod'. if you like easy catch and release on good size blues and blacks, that's a great setup. it's almost a circle hook and you lip hook 'em every time. I fished all day with it and did not hang it up. eventually retired it, hung up a swimbait and then caught a ling on a 'zinger', from my pile of strange ebay jigs.

the other guys got some big specimens today. 

mooch probably will have some pics on monday.  not to mention an emoticon masterpiece of a post with all his ups and downs on the day (a lot of screeching, cursing, huli ka-ing, etc,  )

we fished pretty much straight out front from 60-40 ft. If the weather tomorrow is similar to the weather today, I'd say go. and bring two stringers so you have something to put your halibut on.  or a net.

J

very nice!

Heard stories from mooch. Sound like a great day on the water, can't wait for the pics.
jason

Sounds like a great day!

Awesome, totally awesome. 

nice Executive report not much more to be said. Just had a great time With only two fish caught ended up with11.5lbs cleaned fish. Just to let you know salmon are in l/m bay.That's were i will be Sun mor.

awesome day at bean hollow area.  was great to hear joel screaming about the fish he had lost and caught.  "it's a hallibut!!...no wait...it's a ling!!!....wait...it's a giant cabbie!!  

i brought home limits of rockfish and one heafty ling  on the stringer that is getting cooked up right now.  and for lures i came out +1 today.  didn't loose anything and brought up a 4 oz diamond bar and shrimp fly.

Nice going guys. Sounds like a well-above-average day out there. Got to get out there sometime soon--I was busy unfortunately.

Nice job everyone. one question- where is Beanhollow?

Nice! Want to hit bean hollow.

Just to let you know salmon are in l/m bay.

Did someone get one?

Sounds like a a great place.

Can someone elaborate on how the site is for launching.  How risky, how much experience you need before trying to launch from this site?

Also, as I'm coming from south San Jose, I assume I would take HWY 84.  Is that a time consuming, winding road--how much time should one plan for transitting?

Doug

in general, it is not for inexperienced folks. saturday was primo conditions, anybody could have launched and fished there that day.

you should go look at it a couple times before you try to launch. note the swell and tide when you look at it and file it away for later.

for example, dropping tide and rising swell and you will have some excitement coming in as it can break across the mouth
of the cove on a big set.

it is also just north of the whole ano nuevo GWS grocery area. as mooch said to me out on the water,
"feels sharky doesn't it?". my answer, "sure does!" as my rod went bendo,  .

you can see the pigeon point lighthouse. two people have been killed by sharks between you and the lighthouse.

One thing you might do one day is drive over 17, fish capitola or santa cruz, then take 1 north all the way to 84 or even 92. your gas bill will be high, but you can eyeball the ocean conditions. note the change at pigeon point. take note of all the bouy reports before you left and after. Then, another day, you can look at the weather, correlate to what you saw that day and start to have a clue as to whether a given spot is launchable, fishable and landable without actually driving there.

J
 

Bean hollow info:
http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/bb/index.php?topic=190.0

Pescadero, just to the north, is pretty good too and has a safer launch/landing on the south side of the big rock.

IME, launches and landings at bean hollow are no more hazardous than linda mar.

Josh, thanks for the detailed G2 on the AO at Bean Hollow. 10-15-foot pinncles means there will be Boomers from the largest waves in big swell and they'll be magnified by out-going tide. Definitely for experienced open coast kayakers only unless in a tight group with a chaperone--and even then it needs to be a rare calm day.