Report for Cambria

[Jkfishing]

5 of us fished cambria from our kayaks last Friday and Saturday morning. Friday condition was perfect but Saturday was the opposite 3-5 ft. Swell (maybe bigger) with 15 mph wind. Lucky for us we were going the same direction with the wind and a current which made coming in much easier just have to be careful not to flip in the washing machine waves and current.

I caught my PB from kayak lingcod 33 inch and 11 1/2 lbs. and my first Cabazon 17 inch.
I lost about the same size lincod last year so it was super satisfying to get a 2nd chance and made it count.

We did catch and cook on the cliff it was beautiful and lots of fun.

[BenCantrell]

Awesome! That cabezon is really cool. Would love to fish up there at some point.

[Harry Hill]

Where do you launch from in Cambria? I plan on hauling our yaks up there to fish Morro Bay and Cayucas but I would like to fish Cambria also. If I remember correctly the beach there is all cobble. Is there a bay or sandy beach to launch from up there?

[Jkfishing]

best place to launch in cambria is Leftingwell landing. Super easy and calm protected cove to launch and land with you kayak. Even with poor conditions 3-5 ft swell and 15 mph wind on Saturday it was still less then ankle high wave to land our kayak.

You can type in leftingwell landing on Waze app for directions.

I highly recommend checking out, if you plan on going PM me I'll give you gps for a spot to get you started.

[Harry Hill]

Originally Posted by Jkfishing

best place to launch in cambria is Leftingwell landing. Super easy and calm protected cove to launch and land with you kayak. Even with poor conditions 3-5 ft swell and 15 mph wind on Saturday it was still less then ankle high wave to land our kayak.

You can type in leftingwell landing on Waze app for directions.

I highly recommend checking out, if you plan on going PM me I'll give you gps for a spot to get you started.

Thank you, that will be great to know. I'm sure I'll be going up this fall. Some GPS spots would be great.

[jruiz]

Originally Posted by Harry Hill

Thank you, that will be great to know. I'm sure I'll be going up this fall. Some GPS spots would be great.

A commonly fished spot is a pinnacle a little more than a mile from the launch. Personally, I find it more fun to pull out rockfish/lings/cabs from shallow water kelp. Largest rockfish I caught there was in 25ft of water in a forest of kelp.