Monterey 6/12/14

The wife's family is in town and they wanted to do the 17 mile drive today. "Unfortunately" there wasn't room for all of us in one car. So, I offered to make the "sacrifice" of driving myself to Monterey and meeting them later in the day. Of course, I was packing my kayak and my day started real early...

On the water before 6:00am, launched from MBK and headed to the right. It was a bit choppy and cold, and the direction of the wind made things fairly uncomfortable. Basically done by 9:00, but hung out in front of MBK until 10:00 to see if the wind might go down (it didn't). It was pretty slow---just a few rockfish and a couple of lings. But the super-agressive ling in this video made my day:

Nice C&R. Always fun to get a Ling then send them off for another time.

Thanks for the report and video NowhereMan.

Looks like you had the whole place to your self. Thanks for the report.

Yeah man, now that's how you multitask! And good job on the lings.

Very Nice! Do you like those foam covers for your poles vs a leash? What are the pros and cons. Where do you get the foam also?

Very Nice! Do you like those foam covers for your poles vs a leash? What are the pros and cons. Where do you get the foam also?

I've tried both, and I much prefer the pool noodles. But these are fairly modest-priced rod/reels---for a more expensive setup, I'd want to leash it. One disadvantage of these noodles is that the line hits them when casting. I mostly troll, so that doesn't matter to me. The thing I don't like about the leash is that the leash gets in the way.

Do a search here for "pool noodles" and you'll find a bazillion uses for them when kayak fishing. I usually buy them at Big 5, but they're also available at Target and lots of other places. They come in 2 standard sizes---for rods you want the skinny ones (about 3" diameter).