SC 5/12

Dang, wind forecast does seem to be improving for the weekend in SC.  Tempting...

There is a lot of Bait in Capitola right now. Just throwing out there

Rockfish were a tad hard to come by but I got a 19.5-inch cabezon and a 29.5-inch lingcod. Wind and swells chased me off the reefs at 11 and it was actually a bit hairy as I had to use all my balance to keep from getting tossed.

More pics. Had to chase the harbor seals off the launch. One seal in the harbor sounded like it had tuberculosis. Not a fan of marine mammals lately. F them. Kept and froze the octopus from the lingcod’s belly for a mega bait next time.

nice catch! seem to be tons of octopus around SC/MBK

Hell ya nice bounty. That can is think, how deep did you catch it?

Cabezuki was caught around 60 feet deep on a trap rig with whole frozen squid. Most of the other fish, including the ling, took the same offering. Just worked some nonsecret areas persistently and got a fish here and there.

tuberculosis seal 


nice haul for the shortened session!

Thanks for the intel, gopher.
Fishing tomorrow, hope to bring home some food from the grocery’s store.

That looks to be as good a haul as anyone could expect. Nice going!

Nice pile of fish!  Heck yeah 

Very nice!

Fished the lighthouse area today. Got a lingcod about 27” and a few RF.
The swell seemed bigger than the forecasted 3’-4’

Fished the lighthouse area today. Got a lingcod about 27” and a few RF.
The swell seemed bigger than the forecasted 3’-4’

Nice!

I'm surprised about the swell on the west side, as I was at Pleasure Point at about 10:30 this morning (not fishing) and the swell looked small.

Bay was packed with bait on Thursday was on a WAF trip, birds,seals,fish and Dolphins were gorging all day Swell was less than a foot small wind waves outside.