Experienced Kayaker Gets Humbled! - Kayak Fishing Adventures on Big Water’s Edge

blackcloud9 · 04-26-2009, 06:07 PM

Wow .... you gotta really want to go kayak fishing to charge out at
Shores with the Torrey Pines Outer buoy showing waves of 6 feet at 6
seconds.

(btw, I was riding 6' waves this morning at a La Jolla reef.)

Congrats to those who made it out, and back in, with all your gear intact.
Here is a link that may help if you want to avoid a day like this in
the future, you can actually predict pretty closely what the launch will be
like.
http://larryl.com/favorite_kayak_conditions.htm

Larry

h2ofishfo · 04-27-2009, 07:50 AM

MAN I FEEL REALLY BAD FOR ALL OF U BUT DAMN WHAT A GOOD DAY TO HAVE BEEN A SPECTATOR ANOTHER U TUBE MOMENT MISSED

Geoffkoop · 04-27-2009, 08:32 AM

It was actually pretty entertaining to watch all kayak rental tourists try and charge the surf while I was loading up.

lapulapu · 04-27-2009, 10:10 AM

Launched around 8 AM Sunday and conditions were similar. Saw two guys on an orange tandem flip and lose some gear. My girl and I were about half way out into the surf zone when we took one right in the chest, and our OK Zest Two began feeling like it was made of brick. We were dragging a$$ and got bombed by three waves in the grill, the last one being a 6 footer. We made is out, and then I looked behind me and realized that our bait tank was dragging behind us (I tied it to a rope). Lucky we didn't flip...

Caught a nice whitefish, treefish, sculpin, rockfish, 2 legal sand bass, 3 sand dabs, and a legal calico, but none of what we went out there for. One day.

cobrakid · 04-27-2009, 01:17 PM

its probably just the fact that the cobra fish n dive is a tank but i have yet to flip my boat going out or coming in (knock on wood). I ve found that as long as you keep your boat pointed directly at the wave(going out) in combination with good timing you might get a boat full of water, but you wont get dumped.

Geoffkoop · 04-27-2009, 01:36 PM

Yeah, keeping the boat straight and moving forward on the launch is key. Coming in can get tricky when there are mushy waves every 5 seconds.

Jim Sammons LJKF · 04-27-2009, 01:51 PM

Yep we did the surf class yesterday, the bigger than normal surf made it a lot of fun. Did see several guys that would of benefited from the class get rolled.
It was nice to be able to do the class right there and not have to paddle all the way up to blacks to get a wave.
Hope you find your lost gear.

04-26-2009, 06:07 PM	#1
blackcloud9 Kayaker Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Big Rock, WindanSea, La Jolla Posts: 413	Wow .... you gotta really want to go kayak fishing to charge out at Shores with the Torrey Pines Outer buoy showing waves of 6 feet at 6 seconds. (btw, I was riding 6' waves this morning at a La Jolla reef.) Congrats to those who made it out, and back in, with all your gear intact. Here is a link that may help if you want to avoid a day like this in the future, you can actually predict pretty closely what the launch will be like. http://larryl.com/favorite_kayak_conditions.htm Larry __________________ Larry. Hobie Revolution 13. 25 years of kayak fishing La Jolla. https://larryl.com/photos

04-27-2009, 01:51 PM	#7
Jim Sammons LJKF Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: San Diego CA Posts: 947	Yep we did the surf class yesterday, the bigger than normal surf made it a lot of fun. Did see several guys that would of benefited from the class get rolled. It was nice to be able to do the class right there and not have to paddle all the way up to blacks to get a wave. Hope you find your lost gear. __________________ Jim Sammons La Jolla Kayak Fishing The Kayak Fishing Show JimSammons.com

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04-27-2009, 07:50 AM	#2
h2ofishfo Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Santee Posts: 821	MAN I FEEL REALLY BAD FOR ALL OF U BUT DAMN WHAT A GOOD DAY TO HAVE BEEN A SPECTATOR ANOTHER U TUBE MOMENT MISSED

04-27-2009, 08:32 AM	#3
Geoffkoop Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: So. Orange County Posts: 302	It was actually pretty entertaining to watch all kayak rental tourists try and charge the surf while I was loading up.

04-27-2009, 10:10 AM	#4
lapulapu Junior Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 6	Launched around 8 AM Sunday and conditions were similar. Saw two guys on an orange tandem flip and lose some gear. My girl and I were about half way out into the surf zone when we took one right in the chest, and our OK Zest Two began feeling like it was made of brick. We were dragging a$$ and got bombed by three waves in the grill, the last one being a 6 footer. We made is out, and then I looked behind me and realized that our bait tank was dragging behind us (I tied it to a rope). Lucky we didn't flip... Caught a nice whitefish, treefish, sculpin, rockfish, 2 legal sand bass, 3 sand dabs, and a legal calico, but none of what we went out there for. One day.

04-27-2009, 01:17 PM	#5
cobrakid Junior Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: San Diego Posts: 10	its probably just the fact that the cobra fish n dive is a tank but i have yet to flip my boat going out or coming in (knock on wood). I ve found that as long as you keep your boat pointed directly at the wave(going out) in combination with good timing you might get a boat full of water, but you wont get dumped.

04-27-2009, 01:36 PM	#6
Geoffkoop Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: So. Orange County Posts: 302	Yeah, keeping the boat straight and moving forward on the launch is key. Coming in can get tricky when there are mushy waves every 5 seconds.