Pacific Beach Question - Kayak Fishing Adventures on Big Water’s Edge

-scallywag- · 06-09-2009, 05:17 PM

hahaha....its funny to hear tourmo called a "surf spot", although i've got good waves at pumphouse, oldmans, the point and larrmo's, most of my life was spent drinking beer in the parking lot??? anyway me and some friends regularly launch from tourmo without a problem, even when there is surf, its pretty mushy...and the "locals" are pretty use to kayaks by now....there's even a small group of kayak surfers who now frequent tourmo....

in the summer it is good for bass and hali's inside, fished there last week and things seem to be picking up (cali's, lings and sandies), my favorite is LJ to tourmo, troll macks outpast the NWcorner then you can drift with the current/wind to PB, fish the PB art reefs then land...the paddle to the NW corner from tourmo (in the morning-no wind-) takes about an hr at a moderate pace, but its almost impossible in the afternoon (headwind+current).

PM me if you wanna fish with us...I may even know you if you hang out around there???

CurtyL · 06-10-2009, 09:08 AM

ha Dark that is a funny story. Every wave at Tourmels is a close out except maybe those few on the inside, right off the cliffs near the point. seems like the city said "lets take the one spot with the crappiest wave and make it a surf park". 5-6 yeas ago I used to live in the apts up on the corner of LJ Blvd. and always yakked it out from there. The locals were always nice and curious about what was going on out there at the kelp. It's also a great spot to whale watch from. Some days it's one foot and you have to pick your way through about 50 surfers...but they're not doing much surfing there anyway as you indicated. It's as productive as the PL kelp and way easier to get to.

THE DARKHORSE · 06-10-2009, 10:49 AM

Put your finger in the water, if there's salt in the water then there's Yellowtail in the water

. If you're targeting Calico Bass, fish for Bass, but don't say I didn't warn you. The same tips and tricks that work for Yellowtail off La Jolla work here too. Not to mention this area is a land-mine of random kelp stringers...I wouldn't fish anything less than 50 lb spectra with a flourocarbon leader.

That's the fabled "surf park" in the background. Fifty guys out on this day made it look like Lower Trestles, but I never saw one solid turn

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06-09-2009, 05:17 PM	#1
-scallywag- Banned Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: on the road... Posts: 598	hahaha....its funny to hear tourmo called a "surf spot", although i've got good waves at pumphouse, oldmans, the point and larrmo's, most of my life was spent drinking beer in the parking lot??? anyway me and some friends regularly launch from tourmo without a problem, even when there is surf, its pretty mushy...and the "locals" are pretty use to kayaks by now....there's even a small group of kayak surfers who now frequent tourmo.... in the summer it is good for bass and hali's inside, fished there last week and things seem to be picking up (cali's, lings and sandies), my favorite is LJ to tourmo, troll macks outpast the NWcorner then you can drift with the current/wind to PB, fish the PB art reefs then land...the paddle to the NW corner from tourmo (in the morning-no wind-) takes about an hr at a moderate pace, but its almost impossible in the afternoon (headwind+current). PM me if you wanna fish with us...I may even know you if you hang out around there??? Last edited by -scallywag-; 06-09-2009 at 05:29 PM.

06-10-2009, 10:49 AM	#3
THE DARKHORSE Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Seven minutes from the launch! Posts: 987	Put your finger in the water... Put your finger in the water, if there's salt in the water then there's Yellowtail in the water . If you're targeting Calico Bass, fish for Bass, but don't say I didn't warn you. The same tips and tricks that work for Yellowtail off La Jolla work here too. Not to mention this area is a land-mine of random kelp stringers...I wouldn't fish anything less than 50 lb spectra with a flourocarbon leader. That's the fabled "surf park" in the background. Fifty guys out on this day made it look like Lower Trestles, but I never saw one solid turn . __________________

06-10-2009, 09:08 AM	#2
CurtyL Senior Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: wherever the college girlz r Posts: 127	ha Dark that is a funny story. Every wave at Tourmels is a close out except maybe those few on the inside, right off the cliffs near the point. seems like the city said "lets take the one spot with the crappiest wave and make it a surf park". 5-6 yeas ago I used to live in the apts up on the corner of LJ Blvd. and always yakked it out from there. The locals were always nice and curious about what was going on out there at the kelp. It's also a great spot to whale watch from. Some days it's one foot and you have to pick your way through about 50 surfers...but they're not doing much surfing there anyway as you indicated. It's as productive as the PL kelp and way easier to get to.