Malibu 4-14

[Denis_Ruso]

Launched at First Light to some cold early morning weather with 2 buddies looking for bait to target some larger species. Paddles all over never marked a single school of bait. Bait was impossible to find.

We gave up on bait after about an hour and decided to explore some deep water since there was absolutely no sign of life. Paddled out deep and had a good bite on some deep water sandbass in 110-120 feet. Stopped fishing for them because they were coming up with barotrauma. I kept a skinny 16 incher as he wasn't going to live.

Moved out to some deeper structure and found the rockpile I was looking for. The rockpile took less than two hours to limit out 3 of us with quality grade Reds, Starry eye and chuckleheads. Best part was is all the bites were on a 60g coltsniper.

My buddies were having a little trouble getting the bite going so we cut up an octopus that I jigged up and tipped their jigs with an octo tentacle. That got them going.

Fished right along side the Spitfire at one point and tried to hail them on the radio for a boat burger... No such luck. I was ready to drop 20$ on boat burger at that point.

Heaviest rockfish was a chucklehead at 2 lbs 11 Oz on a calibrated digital rapala scale.

[slobound]

Originally Posted by Denis_Ruso

Launched at First Light to some cold early morning weather with 2 buddies looking for bait to target some larger species. Paddles all over never marked a single school of bait. Bait was impossible to find.

We gave up on bait after about an hour and decided to explore some deep water since there was absolutely no sign of life. Paddled out deep and had a good bite on some deep water sandbass in 110-120 feet. Stopped fishing for them because they were coming up with barotrauma. I kept a skinny 16 incher as he wasn't going to live.

Moved out to some deeper structure and found the rockpile I was looking for. The rockpile took less than two hours to limit out 3 of us with quality grade Reds, Starry eye and chuckleheads. Best part was is all the bites were on a 60g coltsniper.

My buddies were having a little trouble getting the bite going so we cut up an octopus that I jigged up and tipped their jigs with an octo tentacle. That got them going.

Fished right along side the Spitfire at one point and tried to hail them on the radio for a boat burger... No such luck. I was ready to drop 20$ on boat burger at that point.

Heaviest rockfish was a chucklehead at 2 lbs 11 Oz on a calibrated digital rapala scale.

Nicely done!


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[Snags]

Nice haul.
Thanks for the report.
Cool you caught them on the coltsniper.

[YakDout]

Sometimes all it takes is a little scent to kick up the bite. Funny on the burger. Sometimes I feel it too. Screw bringing food I’m too busy fishing to eat food. Then about 1-2 pm it kicks in

[Oolie]

Nice jigfish!

[blitzburgh]

Nice work!


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[Tekniks]

Nice report! Usually don’t see a report close to home. Maybe we can link up

[Cjleon90]

Nice report.


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[Denis_Ruso]

Originally Posted by Tekniks

Nice report! Usually don’t see a report close to home. Maybe we can link up

Yah sure, just message me when you plan on going out. I'm usually diving or fishing.

[Baja Marty]

Nice catch!

Where do you launch, near the pier or further north? I used to kayak from Leo Carillo years ago. Eventually I tired of wiping out in the surf.

[Denis_Ruso]

Originally Posted by Baja Marty

Nice catch!

Where do you launch, near the pier or further north? I used to kayak from Leo Carillo years ago. Eventually I tired of wiping out in the surf.

Further north. Our launch spots are few and far in between out here.

[King Saba]

Reds and chuckleheads. Can't beat that!

[JohnMckroidJr]

Good Report, nice chuckle head. Love the photo with the 3/4 day boat in the background - LOL. Back in my pre-kayak SoCal days, the party boats sometimes winged sinkers or heavy lure snagging lines at any boat that came too close. I sometimes wonder how they are handling the explosion of kayak fishing enthusiasts ? They use to monitor VHF ch 69, maybe you could have ordered your cheese burger over the radio --LOL ?

[fourtogo]

Had them barge in trying shove me off my spot by doing same thing . Chucking heavy iron and sinkers at me and my boat . I am sitting there for a hour or more holding In place with trolling motor . Two can play that game I start dragging In customers lines . They moved off after eyeballs on deck started looking in wheelhouse . Cattle boats only care about numbers . Numbers at the dock is only thing the give a crap about .

[equyst]

Nice report.