DP Outside 08/08/08

[Zed]

08/09/08! I'm still swaying.

Launched early and cleared the Dana Point Buoy by 0535 with a heading of 260.

CaboJohn lets his Freak Flag Fly.


In about 150' I got 2 bones and a mack on the sabiki --same strike. STRIP BAIT!


@ about 3 miles off the buoy we'd been hearing crazy radio talk of yft under dolphin as close as 3 miles out the harbor. We are overcome by a massive pod of mammals. The intercepted us at an oblique angle and the seemed to stream by forever. I had a cd14, a live mack, and jigged a small jig right in the best, optimal spot on the pod. Nothin. Neither of us got a bump.
I took a bunch of shots, but this got the best detail on the dolphin.


Soon after that, @ about 4 miles off the buoy, my mack was hit and I was on a mako for hmmm, 3.482 seconds. We made a L and paddled on a 213 for a few miles then started angling into as little as a 113.

About 10:00
The Simpsons!


Johns mentions he's running low on energy. I claim we're only now in the zone. We're about a mile inside of 3 Newport sportboats and 3 privates, all stopped and drifting. I spot a small ternswarm and paddle hard to get there for the end of whatever. Nada. John makes it to me, and sees boils and paddles off, while I stay drifting with a stripbait out. Not too long passes and I'm facing inshore and John's facing offshore. He mentions some birds over my shoulder. Then says those birds are working right to us, and he paddles off. I whip around and paddle after him , and the terns are straight up and down and extremely excited. We get closer and see the fish. John yells DORADO, and I yell back I know I can see them! They were boiling and jumping all around under the terns. I reached over to my R to get my casting rig and look into the water with my polariZED lenses and there's dozens of dodo's streaming by. I think I need to get a pic, and reach over to my left vest pocket and see dozens of dodo's streaming by on the L. Screw the pic. We did everything but try and freegaff, but no go. We stayed i nthis area for about 2 hours waiting on and paddling for tern schools, all by ourselves. Like I said all the boats were about a mile further outside.


John later picked up a small mako that he cut loose rather quickly, but after it got cut loose it proceeded to circle the both of us twice, before it split.

Random shots:
Coulda been Baja. It was beautiful!


Saw some HUGE whales. They were gray, but not gray whales. They were HUGE!





All told, 9 hours in the yaks, and 20 miles covered. And it was one of my most enjoyable days on the yak I can remember. So much insane wildlife. Definitely top 5 ever, and we only each hooked a shark.

Go get them! They will soon want to die!

[Arne]

Awesome report - made my day ... thanks

[steamroll]

Great pics. Good effort, sorry you couldn't get the dodo's to biteaddleersmili e:

[Iceman]

Helluva an effort, had to be a blast! Adventures close to home.

[kurt]

Great report!

[Dan]

Great report Zed.

[SorryCharlie]

Way to go guy, awesome day on the water. Bummer you couldn't hook up on any dodos.

Now I'm interested in trying!

[makobob]

Very Kewl, really old skool.

[alanhighhand]

great report and thanks for sharing.

[alanw]

Why didn't I know about this kayak fishing thing back in '08?

[the dude]

nice report...those dang dodo's can be frustrating. Gotta jump in and shoot em I guess.

[lowprofile]

Ahh it's like going back in time. What a fun day.