How to make friends with sharks
 

Like many, I've tried several times to find the elusive kayak tuna with no success. So last weekend I decided to stay inshore and focus on the yellowtail which have been popping up periodically in LJ.

As people have mentioned, bait has been tough. Mostly spanish are being caught by the guys sibiking by the kelp. I have had a little luck making the greenies out in 90-100' depth on sonar marks, but this day it was straight spanish. Not a problem for the yellows lately.

This day was a slow bite. I got there in the afternoon and heard of very few fish caught, but plenty seen on the meter. So I decided to go down in line size and rigged up a 25# flouro flyliner. It seemed to give me a slight advantage over the guys fishing 40, as I got picked up almost immediately after switching to the light flouro. Farmed the first one which came unbuttoned, then stuck the second one. Both hits were in ~120' depth outside the bull kelp, on the deep prawn clouds.

Had a nice visit from a 10' hammer and got a cool vid which i posted in the discussion forum last week. They are so cool. Thanks Andy for the OTW pic!

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Really nice OTW pic and Great Fish!

Thanks for sharing the details on your tackle, depth, bait etc... as a new kayak guy, it's appreciated for sure.

Good job!

Nice work
 

Thanks for report .

Dude day 1 kayak rule never post exactly where your at your gonna have 30 goobers there tomorrow cause we all know yellow tail stay in the same spot like a garibaldi ha nice vid though

Really? I didn't know that. Thanks for the tip! I'll be the goober in the blue Outback waving friendly as I pedal past you to find Donkey Roper's hot spot!

If you need anything, please come over and introduce yourself.

<---- PS - I don't really look like the guy in my picture, but with a fishing hat on, it's close enough.

;)

Hmm cool but if u wave friendly how does one wave mean ? Guess u just use one finger in that case

Secret spot... you guys will never be able to find it.

Very cool!

Great meeting you out there! Thanks for posting the video! I still haven't gotten around to editing mine yet.

Seeing that shark just cruising around so close was pretty cool! Then it got awkward when he just wanted to hang out and chase my bait...