Tidelands 06/05/11
 

Still fine tuning my new Fish Finder/GPS unit I wanted to see if the new way I installed my transducer would work as I hoped. The results were wonderful and I will be posting up Step by step instructions as to what I did.
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I made my way to Tidelands this morning wanting to avoid the runners for the R&R marathon and I was glad that I did. I saw some other Kayakers launching just ahead of me. It wasn’t until I was returning my cart wheels that I realized who they were. Anyway as you can see the tide was way out this morning, and started to roll in at 6:30 this morning.
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I made my way to the bridge and started to drift. Going between the Pilings of the bridge I was getting some hard hits but they were avoiding taking the hooks. Then right at about 9 A.M. I drifted passed the green channel marker and it was like a switch was turned on. I had 3 rods out with different baits on, 1 white grub, 1 blue silver swim bait, and another anchovy looking bait. All buttered up with Unibutter.
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The white grub was not getting anything but the anchovy and swim bait were getting bumped 1 after the other. I was missing fish because I was reeling in one, and then reeling in the next while another was biting. I had to be off the water by 10 for a family outing that was planned so I was bummed that I had to leave an active bite. However I was able to do what I wanted. I caught nice fish, tested my FF/GPS, and got to enjoy a nice morning paddle, and then spend time with the family. All in all a great morning and day.

Total fish count.
5 Spotties caught and released 1 lizard, and quite a few hard hits coming through the bridge area.
NOTE - Always clean you lens before taking pictures. As you can see I had some water on the lens.

Sounds (and looks) like you had a good time, and STILL made your family commitments :)

Yes it was a great morning and rest of the day. I still would have liked to have stayed another hour. The bite had just turned on. Oh well Save some fish for next time. All fish released.

nice job Jimmy...I need to get down there with ya, I had a good time there the last visit :reel:

Next time you come down we'll do a South Bay trip rather than a Zuniga trip. There are a lot of fun fish down in that area.