coral st 7/7/07

did  you know that saturday 7/7/7 was a huge wedding day?  Since I already got lucky on the marriage front with my wife of 19 years, I decided to try my luck and test a theory of Jmairey.  with a south swell, the fishing in santa cruz sucks.  (accordering to some it always sucks, so lets say a south swell makes it suckier)

to protect Dr. Surfers (Jmairey) reputation, he said he is not familar with the structure and conditions of much of the Monterey, pacific grove, or carmel areas.

I tried coral street because I assumed Point Pinos would protect that area from a south swell so the fishing should be fine even it sucks elsewhere.  To sum it up, the fishing while not the worst was pretty slow.

the wind wanted to push one way, the swell the other, so even with a drift anchor, predicting a drift was tough.  Most of the fish were small; gophers, blues and coppers.  After a while tried fishing in the kelp, and got a big zero for my efforts.  I generally find lots of small fish in the kelp, so gotta wonder where they were or why they didnt bite.  Water was bit stained deeper with lots of Jellyfish in the kelp was good vis.

So, J may be onto something.  South swell=crappy fishing?

I need a small grant from the state or feds, 1 million or so should do, so that I can study fishing success under a wide range of conditions

I fished there on the 4th, same story, small fish. I hooked 2 olives and a grass rf, released them all. South swell might have had something to do with it. Came in after 2 hours when the wind kicked up. Kimo

Hey Guys,
I'm convinced the jellies are the cause of the slow bite. Every time I see lots of jellies the bite is considerably slower the the norm. P.S can someone please do something about the wind?

So eugene, what about the sizeable NW windswell we had the last few days? It was 9 foot of NW
windswell on saturday right?

wouldn't that mess up that spot? Also, the south swell was pretty much down, what was out there was
NW windswell mainly.

I'm kind of amazed that montery doesn't get washed off the map in a big storm. it seems to face North!

one of these days I'm going to rent a house there and spend some time trying to figure it out.

maybe next summer? as long as the MPA's don't make it a wasteland fit only for poachers.

you are setting your sights low. only $1MM for such an important study? I will throw in with you, but
we need 7-12 MM at least! 

J

the nw swell was up, but I have fished coral street in larger NW swell and still had better fishing.  Most likely the water vis had something to do with it.  I dont know about the jellies in that I havent really noticed that may before.  Perhaps what causes the poor vis also attracts jellies?  Native, any type of jellies in your experience?  These were those rust colored smallish ones.  Chatter on the radio had guys cursing them fouling their downriggers.

J, your right, we need mo money mo money as real science dont come cheap!  I saw a few homes for sale in the area, and sad to say, even if the house was given to me I dont think I could swing the property tax!  So to do proper research we need a home with a view!