Channel Islands Harbor launching

[Roscoe]

I will be fishing this harbor on Saturday. My question is beside the boat launch where I plan to launch from. Is there any other place to launch.
I read on the channel island website that kiddie beach doesn't allow launching of water craft. The last time I was in the area there wasn't any sand at hobie beach.

Thanks in advance.

[GTboosted]

How bad is it at Hobie beach? Sounds like if the sand is gone there it will also be gone is most of the surrounding area.

[wwkf]

I launched from an area next to the c,g, and fished the inside but that was
About ten years ago

[vanduzerwilliam]

I will be fishing this harbor on Saturday. My question is beside the boat launch where I plan to launch from. Is there any other place to launch.
I read on the channel island website that kiddie beach doesn't allow launching of water craft. The last time I was in the area there wasn't any sand at hobie beach.

Thanks in advance.

There is a small dock to lunch from behind the shopping center on Wooley/Victoria. I saw a couple guys launching there the other week.i just picked up a kayak and wanted to try it out, Saturday is supposed to be 20-30mph winds tho. Might want to look into that, unless you plan on staying in the harbor

[King Saba]

I launched a float tube in CI harbor ONCE about 5 years ago. No problem there. There's a sand bar ramp just a few yards above kiddie beach just cart your kayak up there.

[GTboosted]

I launched a float tube in CI harbor ONCE about 5 years ago. No problem there. There's a sand bar ramp just a few yards above kiddie beach just cart your kayak up there.

Yeah thats where I launched too. It seems the call that section Hobie beach?

[King Saba]

Yeah thats where I launched too. It seems the call that section Hobie beach?

No clue. I just know that I need to make another trip up to CI harbor one of these days. Gotta find some rockfish holes up there!

[GTboosted]

No clue. I just know that I need to make another trip up to CI harbor one of these days. Gotta find some rockfish holes up there!

Or lingcod!

[goldenglory18]

...Gotta find some rockfish holes up there!

Or lingcod!

Wait, there are "rock" fish in the Harbors? I always thought of those as more open water species. :jig:

[Roscoe]

There is a small dock to lunch from behind the shopping center on Wooley/Victoria. I saw a couple guys launching there the other week.i just picked up a kayak and wanted to try it out, Saturday is supposed to be 20-30mph winds tho. Might want to look into that, unless you plan on staying in the harbor

My plan is to get to the boat ramp by 6:30 am.
Put kayak into water and then play it by ear. Too much wind that early I will stay in the Mandalay Bay area. If no wind then head out to break wall for as long as I can. Or just fish along the jetties and docks.
More the welcome come along.

[GTboosted]

Wait, there are "rock" fish in the Harbors? I always thought of those as more open water species. :jig:

They are more of a "deep" water fish. There is a canyon just outside the harbor.

[goldenglory18]

They are more of a "deep" water fish. There is a canyon just outside the harbor.

Ahhh......... see I knew there was a reason I needed a graph to fish in the bays. LOL

[GTboosted]

Yup, graphs are helpful. Specially since it is a lot more work to move across water than a boat. You might be wanting to target a certain depth and a graph lets you plan for it in advance. I like this link

http://www.charts.noaa.gov/InteractiveCatalog/nrnc.shtml?rnc=50

I check it out when I want to explore a new area. You can zoom in to an area and get a pdf file that you can look at or download.

[King Saba]

Wait, there are "rock" fish in the Harbors? I always thought of those as more open water species. :jig:

Yeah. Solid population of grass bass up there along with other misc. rockfish such as Browns and even baby reds surprisingly. But, if and when I get up there I'll be hitting deeper spots.

[vanduzerwilliam]

My plan is to get to the boat ramp by 6:30 am.
Put kayak into water and then play it by ear. Too much wind that early I will stay in the Mandalay Bay area. If no wind then head out to break wall for as long as I can. Or just fish along the jetties and docks.
More the welcome come along.

I'm game!! I need to learn before going out to county line I would like trying inside harbor it's a bit safer for sure I'll shoot you a Pm

[TrevtheFox]

I go there quite often and I always launch from Kiddie beach. There's a parking lot right next to it. I didn't know you couldn't launch there. oops . I'll probably keep launching there until someone says otherwise.

However just north of kiddie beach I see ppl launching there yaks from the dirt. (no sand along the waterway)

[Roscoe]

I go there quite often and I always launch from Kiddie beach. There's a parking lot right next to it. I didn't know you couldn't launch there. oops . I'll probably keep launching there until someone says otherwise.

However just north of kiddie beach I see ppl launching there yaks from the dirt. (no sand along the waterway)

I launched out of there about a year ago and didn't really think anything of it. I was looking for other places to launch from when I came across the discription of kiddie beach on the channel island harbor website saying nope can't launch from there.
Years ago hobie beach was covered in sand. Oddly enough people would launch the hobie cats off that beach. Not sure where the sand went and when it disappeared as I just moved back there area a few years ago.

[vanduzerwilliam]

How was it? I didnt end up going out this weekend wind was blowing, and small craft advisories out..

[Roscoe]

The boat ramp was nice.
Got there a little after 6:30 and the weather was ok. No wind a little cloudy. On the water by 7:00. Started making my way out to main and channel. I could see wind was picking up so I turned around and went back towards Mandalay Bay Area. Just paddled around for an hour.