Any Santa Barbara area members? - Kayak Fishing Adventures on Big Water’s Edge

Useful Idiot · 10-08-2007, 12:15 PM

I've been in SD for the past 5 years but I'm from SB. We used to float tube and kayak all over. Keep hittin that bait barge, that seabass is no fluke. We used to park our float tubes next to that thing at dusk 3 or 4 times a week and cast swimbaits parallel to the receiver and catch barely legals fairly consistently. Glad to hear they're still around. Turn in the heads to the DFG office on the mesa, I caught one of the first tagged fish years ago.

Check out goleta beach/campus point. There's flatties all along the surfline from campus point to the rock outcropping at the end of the parking lot at goleta beach, and also east of the slough on the other side of the pier. There's an underwater pipeline straight off the pier about 1/2 mile that always has a ton of bass and rockfish on it. Fishfinder would make it easy, there's usually a kelp line growing on it.

There's a lot of halibut on west beach as well, between the wharf and the jetty. And you could always paddle out to the one mile.

El Capitan is another good spot for flatties in the surf.

Naples can be sick. A lot of big bass and big halibut around there. Never got up there in a tube or yak but fished it a few times from a boat. Figure out a way to get live squid up there and it's game over.

-Brian

10-08-2007, 12:15 PM	#2
Useful Idiot Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 286	I've been in SD for the past 5 years but I'm from SB. We used to float tube and kayak all over. Keep hittin that bait barge, that seabass is no fluke. We used to park our float tubes next to that thing at dusk 3 or 4 times a week and cast swimbaits parallel to the receiver and catch barely legals fairly consistently. Glad to hear they're still around. Turn in the heads to the DFG office on the mesa, I caught one of the first tagged fish years ago. Check out goleta beach/campus point. There's flatties all along the surfline from campus point to the rock outcropping at the end of the parking lot at goleta beach, and also east of the slough on the other side of the pier. There's an underwater pipeline straight off the pier about 1/2 mile that always has a ton of bass and rockfish on it. Fishfinder would make it easy, there's usually a kelp line growing on it. There's a lot of halibut on west beach as well, between the wharf and the jetty. And you could always paddle out to the one mile. El Capitan is another good spot for flatties in the surf. Naples can be sick. A lot of big bass and big halibut around there. Never got up there in a tube or yak but fished it a few times from a boat. Figure out a way to get live squid up there and it's game over. -Brian __________________