Sws report

First post outside of my introduction one.

I Fished stillwater south the last 3 weekends. yesterday was tough not many hookups managed to land 1 ling a nice copper. My friend did get his personal best 30" 9 pound linger.

I on the other hand could not seem to hook many good fish. Finally when i think its just a bad day i hook the biggest fish I have ever had on the other end of my rod from kayak. my drag is set to handle about 15 pound fish and line to handle much bigger. This fish pulled so much line i couldn't stop it After about 30-40 of line stripped it stopped right in a huge crack or wrapped me up in some deep rocks. i gave it one tug and a little movement from the fish then pop. After reeling in my line i diligently looked at the end over 6 feet had been frayed and scraped on rocks.

Its those moments that drive me harder to keep fishing. I will be back to hunt that fish down.

Over all fishing has been great down there. lots of good quality keeper lings cabezon and decent rocks so far. i mostly use swimbaits on occasion i use squid for big old reds

Right on man, I love me some mystery fish! Especially in that area...could've been anything (ling, megacab, wsb, bsb, shark, ray, salmon, striper, big old butt, swordfish, mermaid)?! That's part of the appeal for me.

Exactly monster cab would be so cool I wanna know so bad haha. Another day another fish.

Thanks for the report.

Right on man, I love me some mystery fish! Especially in that area...could've been anything (ling, megacab, wsb, bsb, shark, ray, salmon, striper, big old butt, swordfish, mermaid)?! That's part of the appeal for me.

You forgot to add seal to your list 

Thanks for the report and pictures FF831.

Myself and a buddy are headed out to SWS on wensday.
May I ask what area you where fishing in.
I have fished north of the pier up near the point but I am always looking for new areas
Thank you very much
Sharklure 23

Glad to hear you scored a couple of nice fish. Thanks for the report and pictures.

Jedmo

Quite a few folks Saturday at SWS. Thanks Will for your help talking my fat Predator down the stairs and for the other nice person who helped me carrying up (sorry forgot your name but thanks again)

My day didn't start very well as my fish finder was not working (broken wire...), then I realized I forgot my gloves in and I almost had a little incident launching.

The weatherman was also a bit confused as the fan was not supposed to turn on before 2PM but it was already blowing when I launched around 6:30

Anyway headed out going around the rocks to avoid the surf on the right and started fishing blind (again no FF). I drifted out fairly quickly too.
I caught and released 4 undersized lings, lost a decent one by the boat, kept 2 (22 and 25") and 2 blues with one headed to the BBQ as soon as I got home

I saw a very nice verm caught

Started paddling back around 9:30 but it took me a while as the wind was blowing. When I finally made it back to the cove (after making a few stop along the way) a wave came from behind (was not paying attention nor expecting it), lifted my boat, the bow dipped, the stern starting turning and I almost cap side. Not sure how I didn't... I need to book the surf launch class I got from Christmas.

Anyway it was still good to be on the water and to see/meet many kayakers.

Yeah the weatherman was way off his game. We stuck it out and it finally did get nice for a bit. Still not a great day but any day on the yak is worth it.

Sharklure23 most of the legal fish I've caught recently all have been in 70-90 feet of water. I like to paddle way up to the next point. Or further. Sometimes I head straight out deeeper.

Mind the marine protected area. The Carmel pinnacles.

best of luck. Hit me up I fish weekends. And love Stillwater

Nice job dude!!!

Was cool seeing you guys heading in as I was paddling out after my AM OT session at work.

I dove from noon to 630pm...definitely windy at times, but laid down when I was paddling back so no biggy.

Some of the best viz I've ever had I think...could see the structure at the bottom in 45 feet while laying on the surface. 

I'll do a dive report here in a bit.

 

Sincerely,

Jim

ps...beautiful copper!!