Spooled in DP

[alanw]

Fished DP Sunday afternoon. No anchovies at the bait barge again this week, just sardines with maybe one or two anchovies mixed in. I heard someone say that there will be no more anchovies for the winter, we'll see.

It was a bit choppy and windy, but not too bad. There was only 3 or 4 other kayak fishers that I saw.

I paddled into the wind towards the headlands and found some kelp beds along the way. I fished the kelp for a while and got a few bites but pulled up only half my baits each time.

Started paddling into the wind again looking for more kelp but it seemed a hard paddle. I was complaining about how hard the Stealth is to paddle upwind when I noticed my pole in the rod holder behind me was bent over, and the reel was just about spooled. I spent the next 15 minutes backtracking, untangling kelp, and retrieving about 200 yards of line that was caught up in the previous kelp bed I was at

Well no fish on Sunday but I got a good workout