Hooping in DP 10/23
 

SKUNK


Hooped the outside wall with Bryguth(Bryan)....pulled up at least 20+ and not one of them was a keeper, some were so small they were falling out of thru the holes in the net.

Bryan pulled about the same amount and caught one keeper on the first set.....no skunk for him. Going to try LBC tomorrow......if anyones interested in coming let me know.

Thx for sharing, hope you have better results today, good luck.

Dana can be tough...

I have a confession to make.......I'm stoked, really glad I decided to give this sport a try. What I would really liked to do is hoop Catalina. Have any of you ever tried it? Can you provide some details on the experince?

I havent hooped cat.but will this year and soon.Hooping is done in 100-180' water and you need to weight the hoops and legal to short ratio is around 1-2 when you get further from avalon.I will be sure to post a report.

I hooped Cat a few times when I owned my boat, your ratio sounds about right, 30 pulled up with an average of 14+ keepers. However, our depth ranged from as little as 10' to as deep as 200', managed to get keepers in both depths.

I'm going to start doing some research and see which of the Cat Express boats are yak friendly. I'd like to depart early morning and arrive in Cat before noon, this will give me/us a chance to paddle over to our spot, setup camp and still allow us enough time to get our nets in the water before the private boaters show up. The following morning we can paddle back to the harbor and be back home by midafternoon the next day.

Sounds like an interesting trip let me know what you find out....

MDR flyer is the only yak friendly shuttle I know of....you can also rent yaks on the island.

Or you can always finds a group of guys on BD that are going to the islands and hitch a ride with them.....strap your yak to the bow, it's worked for me!

good luck!!!