LJ 4/17

[jorluivil]

Carpooled over to LJ with Tagyak, got there a little later than we expected to, won't say why. Get to LJ, setup and start to take a look at the sets and Tagyak says his farewells (for that moment) and launches away. I was dragging my yak over to the waters edge so I didn't get to see him launch. When I was sitting in the water waiting I was paying particular attention to the three large sets that kept coming in, they were in the 4' range.

1,2,3....jump in and . I get threw the white wash from the large breakers and once I thought I was in the clear I started to take my time paddling until I saw a HUGE wave building about 50' ahead of me.....I don't know why but I stopped paddling for a few seconds then told myself, "WTF are you doing...PADDLE YOU IDIOT! The wave was so large that when I was about to clear the crest of the wave my yak was sitting in about a 45degree angle and when I came down the bow slammed into the water. It took me at least 5-10 minutes to gather my senses, had I waited a two more breathes I would have been picking my sh*t up from the waters edge.

I found a school of sardines just past the yellow buoys and managed to catch four until a school of dolphins went by and scared them all away. I met up with Tagyak a few minutes later and he was kind enough to give me a few maks.

I won't go to much into the fishing details but I did manage to catch two legal Calico's (both released) and two rockfish that came up with the bends, I forgot my forgot my deflator so I kept them. I don't if recall if Tagyak came up with anything but he, much like I, threw everything in the water except the kitchen sink and got no love on the WSB or YT.

The wind wouldn't let up even after the sun broke threw the clouds. About the only good thing was that the wind kept blowing out of the south, had it changed directions the paddle back might have been a long one. We decided to call it a day right around noon, to many white caps and even had the occasional small swell that would crash over the side of the yak.

Made it back to the launch in one piece, did the old backwards paddle again and got in with no damage. Didn't see anyone at the beach with any fish, I figured that since there wasn't much bait in the water someone would hook up but that didn't appear to be the case. Stopped at In n Out on the way home and that was all she wrote. Had a good time hanging out with TagYak. Last but not least........I NEED A HOBIE!!!!