Totally Lost it.

[BBrown]

Greetings All,

As a rookie on both the board and they kayak, I have found a great amount of information on this site and am very appreciative. With that said, there is nothing like experience to teach us how to do things the right way.

Went out to La Jolla for only my second trip in my kayak. The surf probably wasn't much for the old salts who frequent that particular locale, however, while attempting to launch, I totally lost it, went sideways on a wave and flipped.lol

Was able to recover all my equipment except my Shimano rig. I lost a Shimano Crucial swimbait rod for 5" - 8" swimbaits. It was coupled with a Shimano Calcutta 400 reel. If anyone happens to find it, please let me know. I would really like to have that rig back since I use it for freshwater bass fishing as well.

After recovering from my bonehead move, I continued out to the first bouy, made bait rather quickly and was off to the kelp. Drifted and trolled until around 8:00 with a fly lined mackerel without a bite.

Hope you all did better.