post tsunami LJ fishing
 

wife doesnt want me to go until post tsunami and i have missed first light.

anyone that was planning on going out this morning to LJ want to go out post tsunami? say around 9:30?

waves look like they are increasing for tomorrow and tampering off sunday. today might be the best day to go this weekend.

so who's in??

Tsunami waves are expected to hit LJ at 8:48am and expected to last at least a few hours.

oh well i have been wanting to convert my wet well to a grease mount.
try again tomorrow i guess :cool:

You should be fine. Predicting a 2 foot surge. Go fishing.

I wouldn't go even if if i wanted to.... that just my opinion

plus our harbors are closed.... that should tell you something

just make sure if you go you dont decide to put the yak in while the surge is coming back in otherwise youll be goin nowhere fast.

:kayak-surfer:

jump in as the surge is going out, you might make it to SCI in under an hour.:biggrinjester:

I checked various beach cams around 8:30 thru 9:00 didn't really see anything out of the norm, I feel for the peeps on the other side of the pond though, that was pretty bad, the worst there since they started keeping track

I had my truck all loaded up except for the kayak last night, went to bed, and woke up to a message on my phone telling me I better not go because of the earthquake/tsunami.

At first I was thinking, yeah right, I'm going fishing! .... but seeing the air shot of the wave in Japan somehow made staying home seem not so bad.

Since I took the day off, I'm just going to hit up the FH show today instead of tomorrow.... after a trip to the bank. :D

If you are getting any of the surges on the mainland that I witnessed here in Kauai, my recommendation is that you stay home until things calm down.

All the low lying areas throughout the state were evacuated at midnight last night. The Tsunami was supposed to hit about 3 AM. I spent the night in my car a couple miles from the coast along with several thousand new friends. We were allowed to return at 7:30 this morning.

I went down to the beach as soon as I could and witnessed something I have never seen before. Over a period of a couple minutes, the water receded from the cove in front of our place, exposing the reef where I had snorkeled in ten feet of water yesterday. A couple minutes later, the water returned filling the cove to a level a couple feet above the high tide line. 20 minutes later, the event was repeated. I have never seen anything like this.

The tidal flows were fairly gentle where I was, but there were a few places in the Islands that got hit hard. Most of the damage that I have heard about was to docks in the marinas. Many of the boat owners took their boats to sea last night to avoid getting knocked around. There were hundreds of lights bobbing off shore last night.

This is an experience that I will never forget. Mom nature is a very powerful lady.

Bob

You should of filmed it!!!

Who's gunna protect the seals at Chrildens pool?.....
Call Mrs. Psyco Chick, my God.... those protected mamamals were in danger....:cool:

First few pics show it.

http://www.kitv.com/slideshow/news/27160357/detail.html

Damn !!! With fish all over the road tha AQUA HUNTERS didnt need to paddle out to get thier bag limit ,just walk the road and pick up those "Fish Out Of Water " Seriously though, this is a tragic disaster And prayers to all that were involved

Man, those aerial shots are shocking.:eek:

A 2 foot surge doesn't sound like much but for someone on a Kayak the drawing out of the water and rush back in may be more than one wants to risk.

Aqua Hunter Brothers
 

Those boys had a hell of network going on offering up there homes on higher ground to their fellow brothers of the water ,was good to see all went well for them on the islands

This Tsunami was not a big deal on the SoCal coast. They were only forcasting 2 - 3 feet tidal swings on a day that would otherwise have had very little. Just had to keep yourself out of inlets to harbors, marinas, coves etc. I saw a similar thing today Bob. When we landed, I came in first about 15 minutes ahead of my buddies. I landed 4 -5 feet higher up the beach (a good 40 - 50 feet away on a steep beach) than them. A sailboater passed by me and said he could not even motor out of the harbor entrance due to the flow.

do whatever you want but please do not call for help and tax dollar assitance if you find yourself in the suck.

I didn't drive all the way to LJ to turn around...

but I did wait until 8:41 had passed:D

Landed at 9pm-ish... right side up... barely:sifone:

Natures natural selection at it's best:sifone:

Why don't you let the Big Sleeping Dog Sleep

I bet his bite hurts :you_rock: Don!!

JP

Hey, I'm more than willing to, but I was just returning the favor.

You might want to look up "natural selection" unless you meant that he looked more or less sexy for having gone out.

Hey watch it!! Quid pro quo only works for those who can see more then one side.

Aren't you supposed to be pig hunting? It's not like the Tsunami was going to stop you. I kinda got a feeling that a man such as yourself who's used to dealing with real bears cougars and pigs on a regular basis, and who's been known to dispatch them when necessary, wouldn't have much to fear from internet dogs.... sleeping or otherwise :you_rock:

Sexy to who :D

I get the idea of taking off a day of work to go fishing, but do so to go in the middle of the worst Tsunami prediction in decades doesn't seem to be to smart to me. I mean I occasionally fish small craft advisories just for fun in my sit inside, but even I was smart enough to stay off the water Friday.

Seems suddenly all kinds of guys are saying they went out that day, maybe I guess because they think its sexy... :D

Of coarse with some of those guys more then half the stuff they post is total b.s. with the wrong dates and wrong locations, even pretending other guys fish are their own, so honestly it's pretty hard to tell who really went out and whose talking shit.

Who knows I guess for some dumb is sexy.

Check out the guy at the 3 minute mark in this vid from Friday.
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Now some might think he's sexy but I'd say that guys a total dumbass. :D

Jim

If the slipper fit then wear it.

Most people that fished that day did not take the day off knowing of the Tsunami being that it occured late in the evening.

I was smart enough to know that the predicted 2-3 foot surge would not be a problem unless you were in a bottleneck leading to a basin of some sort. Even less if you were on the open water.

That's funny because I thought I was smart enough to know that when dealing with things the size of 8.9 earthquakes and the whole Northern half of the Pacific Ocean that predicting surge or wave height at a given location is far from a precise science.

Honestly I did not realize you went out Greg, but these things don't always occur as predicted.

Case and point is Santa Cruz which was supposedly dropped from the initial Tsunami warning due to the fact the models said they would not have huge issues there.

My take is one of these days this coast is really going to get it. Especially up at Malibu, where everything is right on the sand.

I thought about going Friday because I thought it might be fun to be out there but backed out because of the unpredictability of the situation.

I don't wear slippers, but I guess that means when it comes to "sexy" you got me :D

Jim

wow that was some killer force... thanks for the video.

Seriously..what difference does it make if someone went out kayak fishing? Why would anyone care? Guys catch fish in all different types of conditions. Enough of the girl talk on the internet and time to fish...

for the record, the group of guys that went out that day were united and made informed, calculated decisions. granted, there was unpredictability with this situation, but, in the end, thankfully, it was as we expected... mild

there are those who would consider kayak fishing foolish and extreme risk-taking in and of itself...

and by the way, i thought we looked pretty damn sexy out there... :the_finger: