Mission Bay, 3-20-15 - Kayak Fishing Adventures on Big Water’s Edge

Amish Ed · 03-20-2015, 07:01 PM

Launched at about 7:00am with Landwhale and Monstahfish (good to meet you). Headed towards the area of yesterday's hot bite and slowly worked our way across the bay's entrance. Very slow pickings. Eventually made it to the area of yesterday's bite and met Buddha (nice to finally meet you too). I wasn't getting bit at all and had left some reluctantly biting fish elsewhere. So, I headed back to them. The reluctantly biting fish bit for a while, then everything shut down with slack tide around 10:00.

Landwhale and I slowly drifted back to our launch site and I was giving serious consideration to calling it a day at 11:00. Steve was in the 20's and I had 10. He was getting me back for the last few weeks. Then I noticed a point that was kind of protected from what was by then a white cap inducing blow. So, we paddled over (Monstahfish joined in the fun eventually), and I immediately started hooking up. In 20min. I had 9 more fish. Then the bite slacked way off. But, by 1:30 when we headed in I had a total of 27. Unfortunately, for all that I only had 1 legal and handful in the 12-13" range.

Early on the bait of choice was a brown and orange jig (orange 3/8 Slayer head and custom skirt) w/4" New Penny Paddlerz trailer. Other misc. 5" Paddlerz got some fish too. The noon bite was all about a 5" Smokey Shad Paddlerz on a 3/8 Ultrahead. Regularly re-applying Hot Sauce made a noticeable difference.

To cap off a fun day of fishing Steve and I had lots of traffic on the way home. 1hr+ to get to Encinitas. The drive ended up being 2.25hrs total.

03-20-2015, 07:01 PM	#1
Amish Ed Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Grants Pass, OR Posts: 1,903	Mission Bay, 3-20-15 Launched at about 7:00am with Landwhale and Monstahfish (good to meet you). Headed towards the area of yesterday's hot bite and slowly worked our way across the bay's entrance. Very slow pickings. Eventually made it to the area of yesterday's bite and met Buddha (nice to finally meet you too). I wasn't getting bit at all and had left some reluctantly biting fish elsewhere. So, I headed back to them. The reluctantly biting fish bit for a while, then everything shut down with slack tide around 10:00. Landwhale and I slowly drifted back to our launch site and I was giving serious consideration to calling it a day at 11:00. Steve was in the 20's and I had 10. He was getting me back for the last few weeks. Then I noticed a point that was kind of protected from what was by then a white cap inducing blow. So, we paddled over (Monstahfish joined in the fun eventually), and I immediately started hooking up. In 20min. I had 9 more fish. Then the bite slacked way off. But, by 1:30 when we headed in I had a total of 27. Unfortunately, for all that I only had 1 legal and handful in the 12-13" range. Early on the bait of choice was a brown and orange jig (orange 3/8 Slayer head and custom skirt) w/4" New Penny Paddlerz trailer. Other misc. 5" Paddlerz got some fish too. The noon bite was all about a 5" Smokey Shad Paddlerz on a 3/8 Ultrahead. Regularly re-applying Hot Sauce made a noticeable difference. To cap off a fun day of fishing Steve and I had lots of traffic on the way home. 1hr+ to get to Encinitas. The drive ended up being 2.25hrs total. __________________ Amish Ed You can't catch it again if it's dead!