Catalina camping and kayak fishing

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Thought I’d share year 3 of camping and kayak fishing at a Catalina boat in camp site with my two sons. This year we were there for 4 nights and 4 days.












Beautiful weather again with some wind in the afternoon and a bit cooler in the evenings than past years. In 3 years we haven’t yet been blown off the water. Fishing improved everyday with the last day nearly wide open in the morning before we had to pack up to leave.





We threw 7” Berkeley Jerk Shad for Calico the entire trip except for day 3 when we decided to make bait and try for YT. Bait was tough that day. What bait we did find caught nothing but more Calico (OK by us). All C&R.




Fishing from the shore in the evenings is all rays and sharks.








On day 2 we took a boat ride to the back side of the island to target Calico. Hard to believe they grow Calico that big on the back side. Swimming out to the boat at 6AM is an eye opener.









Snorkeling was really unbelievable. Still images below from a GoPro. Check out the Calico sitting next to the Garibaldi and the Octopus in the other.







One of my sons is really quite good at home brewing so he brewed our second year of 2013 Black Lava IPA using home grown backyard Newport hops and a splash of sea water. You’d be surprised how good that tastes after only two days of fermentation in a cooler.




And when we weren’t drinking camp site brew…………….