1st time out !!

[momo fish]

Went out for first time fishing on my Malibu stealth kayak in Malibu and boy was it fun!!

After finally buying a stealth from Andy, and had plumbing installed, wanted to go out and fish local... Met a cool guy (Sean) who lived nearby and fished the local waters often. After making plans to fish sunday morning at county line I prepped for the trip and barely slept 2 hours (sorry ben made plans for morning fishing before the hours changed for huneme trip).

Sean picked me up from my house and loaded kayak into his pickup. We get to launch area and no one there yet at 6am.. Little wind and foggy but still nice with some small waves.. After a pep talk I prepare my first ever beach launch.. Sean makes in past the breaks and I am following him about 10 feet behind... Guess that 10 feet made a difference for me cause after making it past first wave, the 2nd wave was big enough to knock me off regardless how hard I tried to push and paddle through.. So back at the beach, watching Sean encouraging me to get back.. I then try to time the waves and after 10 minutes sean came back to help (really cool guy). 2nd time out I made it and Sean made it out as well... Although I flipped the kayak and was soaked, nothing was going to stop me from heading out.. Glad I flipped to get over that fear..


As for the fishing, no complaints at all... I had squid for bait and swimbaits.. I used squid and we got rockfish.. I used a white swimbait and kept getting some fat calico's.. Ended up with 3 really big ones.. Sean had some rockfish and a lingcod..was getting plenty of bites and I hooked on something big but lost it as I was using a small spinner with light line and was getting tired pulling on what seemed to be dead weight (maybe ray).. Plenty of bait and squid metered by sean and a fellow kayaker came and offered us info on squid as he was loading up on... Fished by the gentlemen which was nice given we got to spots in 20 minutes

can't figure out how to post pics on a tablet, but will once my 6 year old shows me.. Btw, read the landings out here were limiting on white seabass..I wonder if we missed the bite by a day but will try again next weekend...