Kayak fishing out of NPH
 

Hi everyone, I'm new to Kayaks but have bee fishing my entire life. Just ordered PA14 and live in Anaheim, CA. Probably will be fishing out of Newport Harbor most of the time. Does anyone go out past the jetty and deep into the ocean for YT? Pretty sure Catalina would be way to far to make unless you had a motor but what about a couple miles out? Anyways, would like to hopefully meet some of you out there some day.

Thanks,

Jarrett

Nothing but open water.. A mile out though u got structure. La Jolla is where it's at.


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So how far out from launch do you go out at LJ?

Just follow the fleet of kayaks it's probably about a mile.

lol, there's really that many? What about weekdays? And is there only one launch site from the beach?

It has been known to be a zoo out there.

Honestly don't even bother there has been too much pressure out there on the rock piles. I would recommend doing like the last guy did, blindly through iron.

It's about 1-2 miles if that...


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I'm sure all these guys recommending LJ for your maiden run jumped in the deep end as well and didn't spend any time in the harbors before making the jump to a surf launch.:rolleyes:

I don't see why people struggle to keep losing things on surf launches/return. Don't be stupid, secure all your gear! Even pros can flip once in awhile. Sooner or later it's going to happen. Tie your rods down, put all electrical in dry bags and in storage bins and expect the worse. Seems like the ones losing stuff are the cocky guys who think it will never happen to them

Leashes don't always hold, dude.

At least they help ....

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There's a whitewater kayak saying that, no matter how good you think your abilities are, that "We are all between swims"
(Meaning no matter how confident you are in your Eskimo roll, eventually the day will come when you fail and need to ditch and swim )


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You could say the same thing about wearing seat belts. If they're not going to guarantee you surviving in a accident then why even use it?
I don't fully disagree however, having better odds in not losing gear to the deep blue is far better than having to buy everything I've lost. Unless you fish with walmart sold tackle (which I highly doubt) you better have deep pockets if you tend to go out with nothing tethered down.

aside for my game clip i dont use leash at all. PITA.... i however do put everything in the hull or strapped down prior to launch and land. Those horizontal rod holders on the PA is worth its weight in gold.

It would take a lot to break a nylon leash but I'm sure it can happen- like maybe less than 1% chance.

Buy a trident, put all your shit in the hull, make sure bait tank is bungeed down proper, time the sets, commit, paddle hella hard.

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What he said [emoji115]

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Sorry for noob question- what do you mean by buy a Trident? What is that?

It's a kayak made by the company Ocean Kayak

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lol, I may be a noob but I'm not dumb lol

Remember what happened to me?.... Good times lol :cheers1:

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Of course I remember

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Ha!

Definitely a story to tell my grand-kids. I remember not even being scared, just pissed that I lost my $300 paddle.

So lesson here is....I don't know, leash your paddle the moment you clear the breakers....oh and watch the weather reports.

Wow, that's scary. At least it will be harder to lose my mirage drive on my PA lol
Yeah if the wind is blowing into the ocean- that's a no go. I hate real windy days anyways.

My problem was that my first few launches were with very similar conditions and being that it was a Tarpon 140 (14 footer) with a rudder I saw no problem launching. There was also this one day, I forgot why but me and Kevin decided to leave our gear at the shore and we practiced launching thru surf and flipping the yaks once we were past the breakers. We did this quite a few times. So in my head I was "prepared" ...Losing the paddle well that's something else. Lesson learned :doh:

I also ordered a PA14, after being in hiatus for almost 2 yrs. My main vehicle to transport the tarpon had some issues. Now I got a trailer for my other car and gonna get back into it.


I only fished for 4 months so I am still a newb when it comes to inshore fishing. I still want to go to LJ and it will probably be the only place I surf launch...my Tarpon's seat broke after a few launches in surf and I will not risk damaging my PA. So besides LJ I will stick to Harbor launches. Looking back at it, I should've kept the tarpon for surf launches. That was fun, but I never lost gear since everything including my FF would go in the front hatch.