Kayak Fishing Adventures on Big Water’s Edge - View Single Post

Aaron&Julie · 01-30-2006, 05:15 PM

Congrats Iceman, on finishing a fine slam for this month. Congrats to you too, Arne, that is a barndoor for sure. Wish our day was more fruitful. Julie did catch a fish that was bigger (80lbs or so) than those 2 put together, but since it was a protected species we had to let it go. Her first BSB and biggest fish ever, gave her quite a tow, and some more experience at working a big fish on the yak.
We made beautiful greenies at the pier, our first attempt at making bait there. Started somewhere near Dec's "spot". Eventually drifted south in front of the big condo around 8:30AM, where we saw many yakkers, probably you two were among them. We worked the irons and baits all day with a sand bass and released BSB for our efforts.
We noticed a lot of bait and large greenbacks feeding on them. In fact, the mackeral seemed spread out to the bottom. As you two so far had the only fish, we are curious whether you actually could tell there was something large below on your meters. Arne it seems hard to envision metering a halibut, unless he was suspended, which they have been known to do. Could you have been metering all that mackeral that was around? And Andy, was that WSB a blind strike? Could you see something suspended just above the bottom (3 cranks)?
We know there are many benefits to getting a fish finder, which will be our next fishing toy, but are looking for feedback as to what they did or didn't tell you for today's catch.

01-30-2006, 05:15 PM	#24
Aaron&Julie Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Spring Valley Posts: 1,400	You guys! Congrats Iceman, on finishing a fine slam for this month. Congrats to you too, Arne, that is a barndoor for sure. Wish our day was more fruitful. Julie did catch a fish that was bigger (80lbs or so) than those 2 put together, but since it was a protected species we had to let it go. Her first BSB and biggest fish ever, gave her quite a tow, and some more experience at working a big fish on the yak. We made beautiful greenies at the pier, our first attempt at making bait there. Started somewhere near Dec's "spot". Eventually drifted south in front of the big condo around 8:30AM, where we saw many yakkers, probably you two were among them. We worked the irons and baits all day with a sand bass and released BSB for our efforts. We noticed a lot of bait and large greenbacks feeding on them. In fact, the mackeral seemed spread out to the bottom. As you two so far had the only fish, we are curious whether you actually could tell there was something large below on your meters. Arne it seems hard to envision metering a halibut, unless he was suspended, which they have been known to do. Could you have been metering all that mackeral that was around? And Andy, was that WSB a blind strike? Could you see something suspended just above the bottom (3 cranks)? We know there are many benefits to getting a fish finder, which will be our next fishing toy, but are looking for feedback as to what they did or didn't tell you for today's catch. __________________ "Never say die"