Paranormal Activity- Ghosts and stuff

[Denis_Ruso]

Late report from my neck of wood.

Woke up bright and early with Cjleon to try our first night launch. Pull up to the launch spot to a negative tide and the swell pumping.

Get our gear rigged up around 4 am and go for the launch during the first lull. At least what we though was a lull. We get 3-4 paddles in and realize we aren't making it past the next set. The tide is sucking all the water out out and pumping a 2 ft set to double over into 4ft and break on itself. I take a wave right over the bow. Knowing I wasn't making it through, I jump off to the side of the yak as the wave is breaking. Come up from underwater to see my buddy trying to flip his kayak back over.

I rush over help him flip his yak, then run over and grab mine since it is still upright.

Back to shore, calm down let the adrenaline pass by. Launch again 15 minutes later once first light is making an appearance. The kayak was super hard to paddle out but I made it out and so did my buddy. ( I realized my kayak had a few gallons of water inside. Used a sponge to dry it out)

We were on our way, soaked but undefeated albeit there have been ghost sightings.

We paddle deep, but there are no signs of life besides the pack of about 150 porpoise that escort us to the fishing grounds. Cheers boys as they flip out of sight.

An hour goes by until we start seeing some bait on the electronics. Got one small mac. Spent the rest of the time getting electrocuted by the shorting wiring on my newly wired bait tank and trying to get the on off switch to work. Got the tank to fill but the timing switch never ended up working.

Made a couple more baits and trolled them around. Nada nada enchilada. Give up, eat food. Fish Calico. The calico fishing was world class. The kind of calico fishing I would do all day every day. Getting bit every cast and most are legals. Fun fun fun.

I look over at my buddy and he pulls up a nice big 20" in one... but its silver with some light grey stripes. He yells to me "there was another one following it about 4 ft long!".. I guess that resembles a ghost. OOO spooky.

The real fun begins and we start metering these silvery apparitions. And one after another they come up. We land 4 in a row. All shorties around 20-22", 3 on swimbaits and 1 on live mac.

Then it happens, My first legal takes the the 5" baby bass freshwater swimbait and puts me in the kelp. But I brought my braid to play. Pop and it feels as though he has disappeared as they always do... I keep reeling and YES the tension is back on the line. I get him to the boat fairly quick after that and he measured out to 29 1/2". He did a number on hands and the adrenaline made me stick my fingers inside the gills. Don't do that.

[Geno Machino]

Congrates on your first legal!

Looks like good eats too.

[steveooo]

Stoked! Congrats on the first!

[YakDout]

Nice fish, you definitely are not dressed for Antarctica though.

[ceruleandrms]

Damn, someone found my iceberg!!

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[pingpangdang]

Congrats on the white! Not sure why you jumped out the yak...safer to stay in and plow through straight on. It's almost impossible to flip over unless you get cock eyed or lean to much. Even with a wave dumping your scuppers should be able to drain out the water on deck even with some sinkage due to water weight. The water inside the yak is likely from your flush mounts which is minimal....there are ways to seal those. Unless you have hatches open...you'll definitely get water in. Some hatch seals on malibus are not super water tight as well. Regardless with constant forward head on momentum you'll make it everytime. Hesitate, don't commit, the wave will pull you back and sideways along with being at the mercy of white water. The only problem you should have is the wave knocking your fish finder off mount...if surf is big just connect btb. Assuming you have everything tied down.

[Silbaugh4liberty]

Nice job! Congratulations! Sounds like CL is gonna be crowded this weekend!

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[Denis_Ruso]

Originally Posted by pingpangdang

Congrats on the white! Not sure why you jumped out the yak...safer to stay in and plow through straight on. It's almost impossible to flip over unless you get cock eyed or lean to much. Even with a wave dumping your scuppers should be able to drain out the water on deck even with some sinkage due to water weight. The water inside the yak is likely from your flush mounts which is minimal....there are ways to seal those. Unless you have hatches open...you'll definitely get water in. Some hatch seals on malibus are not super water tight as well. Regardless with constant forward head on momentum you'll make it everytime. Hesitate, don't commit, the wave will pull you back and sideways along with being at the mercy of white water. The only problem you should have is the wave knocking your fish finder off mount...if surf is big just connect btb. Assuming you have everything tied down.

There was no plowing through that one. there was a lot of backwash, I wasn't getting any speed forward. The water movement put me dead in the water and the sets behind it were bigger and further out. It was time to abandon ship and try again.

Originally Posted by Silbaugh4liberty

Nice job! Congratulations! Sounds like CL is gonna be crowded this weekend!

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He he, its almost like people think CL is the only place we have. Everyone can come on down you will be a day late and a buck short. This report is pretty old.

[dphuntnfish]

I love the picture edit haha