Your Most Favored Fishing Trip

[Baja_Traveler]

My most memorable trip of all time didn't have the biggest fish, or even the most fish.
I was working for Bob Stringari building boats in High School, and we went out on his boat to Catalina one summer. I brought my 8 weight fly rod, and I was standing up on the bow plank sight casting to and catching breezing bonito all day long. It was a blast.
Worked for bob on and off for years - every center console out there has one of my windshields on it...

[lancer269]

Last year in august for sure. 2 hour quick kayak fishing session for seabass resulted in me catching 8 legal seabass with the biggest one around 30lbs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtXpdXOQ2-0

having my little bro not only catch his first seabass off a kayak but his limit as well was nice to see too. he had 3 legals.

this was his first.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RkWc...hannel&list=UL

my buddy tony (trinidude) also had 3.

14 legal seabass between 3 of us. kept 9 legals. released the rest.

[Samcro]

Hey Gus...I came across your video late last year and I have to say what convinced me to get a kayak was the part in the video where you pull up that big seabass with your leg and the schoolies as you put from the other side of the Kayak. Correct if I'm wrong, is this Palo verdes?

[lancer269]

Originally Posted by Samcro

Hey Gus...I came across your video late last year and I have to say what convinced me to get a kayak was the part in the video where you pull up that big seabass with your leg and the schoolies as you put from the other side of the Kayak. Correct if I'm wrong, is this Palo verdes?

im glad i inspired you. lol.

and yes, those fish were caught along the palos verdes kelp.

i love fishing that area, but its a hastle getting your kayak from the parking area down to torrance beach to launch. well, taking it down is the easy part, getting it back up is a pain in the ass.

[Samcro]

Originally Posted by lancer269

im glad i inspired you. lol.

and yes, those fish were caught along the palos verdes kelp.

i love fishing that area, but its a hastle getting your kayak from the parking area down to torrance beach to launch. well, taking it down is the easy part, getting it back up is a pain in the ass.

Where exactly do you launch from? Would it be from king harbor or is it a beach launch from north rocky point?

[lancer269]

Originally Posted by Samcro

Where exactly do you launch from? Would it be from king harbor or is it a beach launch from north rocky point?

its possible to launch from king harbor and paddle all the way across. it would be about a 2.5 mile paddle, give or take.

i park on top of the hill and walk the kayak down. when i said it was a hastle, i meant its a b*tch. but its worth it SOMETIMES.

i google mapped it on my phone to show u what a pain in the a$$ it is.

birds eye view


okay, now the fun part.
park where the yellow circles are at.
follow the trail.
keep following the trail. (its a long way down..longer way up. lol)
once you get to the beach/sand...get away from the rocks a bit and go when you are ready.



thats just something to give you an idea.
i wish it was like la jolla where u back your truck into the surf and unload.

[Iceman]

just glad I never have to carry fish up there!