Long Beach Harbor/Oil Islands 3/28

[Cyn]

Sorry for the late post... I went out last week for my first time on the "real ocean" (outside the bay). My buddy and I took the Hobies out by Belmont Pier and went out to White Island.

Got to the water around 7:45am, weather was absolutely perfect. Winds between 1-2 mph, couldn't have asked for an easier surf launch, and the water was smooth as glass. Was a very eerie and neat feeling pedaling away from the coast and out into the open water, not something I've done before. Barely another soul on the water, and definitely no other kayaks.

We threw 3" big hammers of various colors and heads all day. My friend killed me on fish, he snagged 3 calicos, a lizard fish and some unidentified fish with purple on it (pic below). I hooked into a pretty decent fish (assuming calico) but it ran my line into a piling and broke it off. I managed to break the skunk 5 casts from the end of the day by grabbing a last minute lizard fish.

Looking forward to the next outing, think I might try to target some halibut!