5/21 Brown Rockfish

[blackcloud9]

Made a short trip kayaking Saturday fishing on the inside kelp for a couple
hours. Pretty slow overall, fished plastics and released a few smaller
calicos. Think there were some yellows chasing bait around, couldn't get
bit on the iron though.

Ended up running into these Brown Rockfish, fishing plastics/ bottom in 60'
at the kelp edge for the 30 minutes that the current cooperated. I think
the far one is a grass rockfish. Fillet board sink shot!

Does anyone know what the buggy thing here is called? They were inside the
fish stomachs, and they eat all my lobster bait out here in lobster season,
I hate 'em - I didn't know rockfish love them.


























Freshwater Note: I landed this 4 lb bass on trout tackle and 4 lb line while
fishing with the kids at Santee on Sunday. A respectable battle which
got my blood pumping anyway! The bass hit a dropshot 3" plastic.

For those of you with kids, the bluegill bite on mealworms is great now. I
fill a bucket with water and bluegill - let the kids catch fish, play in the
bucket, feed the ducks, and also hit the park's playgrounds. Good times!

[Iceman]

Very nice LMB on the light gear! Fun day, my daughter loves to catch blue gill. Santee lakes, home of the lawn chair fishermen. Check out Loveland res if you want to fish for free.

[-scallywag-]

Nice bass!!!

I think the little bugs are isopods??

last season i caught a long skinny 37lb YT, in the middle if the night....when i cleaned it I found nothing but those bugs and squid egg sacks in it's stomach...weird.

[catchnfish]

They're f'n creepy is what they are

[undrH2Ohntr]

Originally Posted by catchnfish

They're f'n creepy is what they are

I agree...I find them latched onto me when I come out of the water, I think they hang onto the kelp.

[Regor]

Originally Posted by undrH2Ohntr

I think they hang onto the kelp.

Yep, last time I tied off to the kelp, when I left I had to extract a dozen of them off the yak. And throwing water over them didn't wash them away.