Brad, I missed 'ya on Sunday. Here's my report...
Got up at 6:00AM, grabbed coffie and ran to La Jolla shores. The plan was to exclusively target halibut, and be ready if the tails pay a surprise visit. I really wanted to put to work some of the 2 point rigs I’ve been thinking of.
Launch was piece of cake, 1-2 ft-ers. The first time on the yak, I started paddling north. There was some surfers tourney by the pier.
Didn’t really know where to look for bait; saw some marks right in front of the Pier. Small chovies, and to my surprise – small lizard fish? I thought those guys were hugging the bottom. Couldn’t get macs. Switched to dragging some rubber skirts and headed North. I was happy to find that “hole” there, the north arm of the canyon. I didn’t really know it extends that close to the shore. I was busy marking some spots – never enough of a rock fish holes.
I picked up some larger model Spanish and 2 greenies right there at the 1st drop.
By 8:00-ish, wind has picked up considerably, making for a challenging paddle in the wind. I mostly “combed” 30’/40’ depth, and decided to try a little deeper. As I was paddling straight west, 10 sq. yards area not far away from me exploded. :shock: A school of tails was doing their thing while I paddled like crazy. I weighed each stroke worrying if they would sink down by the time I get into casting range. I fired off the magabait right in the middle of 5-6 boiling fish thinking how lucky mofo I am… No interest, while they kept brewing. Fired another one, got bumped… Fired the 3rd one, no avail and they were gone… talking aout adrenalin. Pinned the greenie on the surface and worked the area for a while, hoping to get another chance. Nope, no show again.
Got one haliscar on my bait, that was it for the day.
On my way back, I ran into Mark (Ski). Had a nice chat, nice meeting you dude. Mark had I niiice linger – 29". The pic doesn’t do the justice.
Next time. 8)
The highlight of the day - I timed the surf entry badly, and ended up trying to outrun pretty big wave... I ended up surfing it like a pro! I was stoked!!! No rolly polly Lamb this time!
