Dana PT 10/24 - Kayak Fishing Adventures on Big Water’s Edge

DanaPT · 10-24-2012, 03:49 PM

At the headlands around 7am. Great sunrise, those never get old.

Fall is here, the air is very cool. FF reading 67.

Breeze was stiff off-shore and there was swell moving through. Saw a bunch of smelt but did not try to make bait. I was stuck on using fresh dead squid.

Fished the deep water outside the kelp, in the kelp and the beach side of the kelp right off the headlands points for this lil' buger. . . .

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Amish Ed · 10-24-2012, 05:56 PM

Bummer. What time did the wind turn onshore? I was down at Old Man's (didn't go out as it was flat) and it started up around 10:30.

mtnbykr2 · 10-24-2012, 05:57 PM

Oh, I have gotten those before...they stink....lol...least you got to see a not so old beautiful sunrise, on the water in your yak....I would say that was a good day...thanks for the report....

DanaPT · 10-24-2012, 07:18 PM

On the wind. . . the wind started at the time I made it to the Headlands. I was tying a knot and before I new it I had drifted out to 70 ft of water well beyond the red buoy.

On the swell, out of the harbor waves were coming in from the north. Out on the kelp, It would be flat and then the swell would roll on through. A lot of ups and downs, enough to keep the sea-sickness feeling close by.

Amish Ed · 10-24-2012, 09:14 PM

Did the wind turn onshore at any point? Just curious because on the way to SanO the wind was down from DP to San Clemente. Then at SanO it was onshore.

10-24-2012, 03:49 PM	#1
DanaPT Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: South OC Posts: 1,606	Dana PT 10/24 At the headlands around 7am. Great sunrise, those never get old. Fall is here, the air is very cool. FF reading 67. Breeze was stiff off-shore and there was swell moving through. Saw a bunch of smelt but did not try to make bait. I was stuck on using fresh dead squid. Fished the deep water outside the kelp, in the kelp and the beach side of the kelp right off the headlands points for this lil' buger. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Attached Images

10-24-2012, 05:56 PM	#2
Amish Ed Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Grants Pass, OR Posts: 1,903	Bummer. What time did the wind turn onshore? I was down at Old Man's (didn't go out as it was flat) and it started up around 10:30. __________________ Amish Ed You can't catch it again if it's dead!

10-24-2012, 05:57 PM	#3
mtnbykr2 Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: newbury park ca Posts: 2,323	Oh, I have gotten those before...they stink....lol...least you got to see a not so old beautiful sunrise, on the water in your yak....I would say that was a good day...thanks for the report.... __________________

10-24-2012, 09:14 PM	#5
Amish Ed Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Grants Pass, OR Posts: 1,903	Did the wind turn onshore at any point? Just curious because on the way to SanO the wind was down from DP to San Clemente. Then at SanO it was onshore. __________________ Amish Ed You can't catch it again if it's dead!

10-24-2012, 07:18 PM	#4
DanaPT Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: South OC Posts: 1,606	On the wind. . . the wind started at the time I made it to the Headlands. I was tying a knot and before I new it I had drifted out to 70 ft of water well beyond the red buoy. On the swell, out of the harbor waves were coming in from the north. Out on the kelp, It would be flat and then the swell would roll on through. A lot of ups and downs, enough to keep the sea-sickness feeling close by.