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

sbsyncro · 10-11-2007, 08:41 PM

Well, I am sold on the value of a fish finder.... 5 months of fishing off the kayak and I've never caught a legal-sized fish to take home. Today, my first day out with the new Cuda 250 s/map and i found a spot where the sand bass were hanging out and hitting swim bait like crazy. Within about an hour (and that includes a lot o fiddling with line and repositioning in the current) I had 4 sandies and a 14" rockfish, all on swimbaits. The sandies were ALL taken on a "bleeding mackerel" pattern 5" or 5-1/2" big hammer with "Pro-Cure" crawfish gel - they would not hit any other colors I tried. The rockfish was taken on a "rainbow trout" color big hammer with frozen squid. The Sandies ranged from 13" (my first) to 19-/2".

Since these are the first keepers I've caught on the kayak, I figure that the cost per pound of the fillets is somewhere around $1,500 per pound, not including my time.

Matt · 10-12-2007, 06:07 PM

Congrats my man!!!! You may be at $1500 per pound of fillet but that pic of you and your son is gonna be more than priceless to the both of you in 20 years!!!!

Congrats!!!

Matt F.

lambadmin · 10-12-2007, 06:23 PM

Food's on the table!

Funny, I was just going to move your thread since it wasn't a fishing report, and now you made it just that...

lamb · 10-12-2007, 07:13 PM

now,

this is a nice bass.

sbsyncro · 10-14-2007, 09:06 AM

OK, that thing is ridiculous. Did you photoshop that thing?

Now I feel really inadequate...

10-12-2007, 07:13 PM	#4
lamb Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 2,568	now, this is a nice bass. __________________ [------------------------ <)))< ....b-a-a-a-a

10-11-2007, 08:41 PM	#1
sbsyncro Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Santa Barbara, CA Posts: 80	Well, I am sold on the value of a fish finder.... 5 months of fishing off the kayak and I've never caught a legal-sized fish to take home. Today, my first day out with the new Cuda 250 s/map and i found a spot where the sand bass were hanging out and hitting swim bait like crazy. Within about an hour (and that includes a lot o fiddling with line and repositioning in the current) I had 4 sandies and a 14" rockfish, all on swimbaits. The sandies were ALL taken on a "bleeding mackerel" pattern 5" or 5-1/2" big hammer with "Pro-Cure" crawfish gel - they would not hit any other colors I tried. The rockfish was taken on a "rainbow trout" color big hammer with frozen squid. The Sandies ranged from 13" (my first) to 19-/2". Since these are the first keepers I've caught on the kayak, I figure that the cost per pound of the fillets is somewhere around $1,500 per pound, not including my time.

10-12-2007, 06:07 PM	#2
Matt Support your local pangas Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Lj Posts: 976	Congrats my man!!!! You may be at $1500 per pound of fillet but that pic of you and your son is gonna be more than priceless to the both of you in 20 years!!!! Congrats!!! Matt F.

10-12-2007, 06:23 PM	#3
lambadmin Spam Sanitation Dept Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 1,376	Food's on the table! Funny, I was just going to move your thread since it wasn't a fishing report, and now you made it just that...

10-14-2007, 09:06 AM	#5
sbsyncro Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Santa Barbara, CA Posts: 80	OK, that thing is ridiculous. Did you photoshop that thing? Now I feel really inadequate...