Catalina Trip End of July/Early August

[Fiskadoro]

Originally Posted by wiredantz

This trip is weather permitting!
Back up plan # 1
If weather is bad we are not going
Back up plan # 2
Lock up all the kayaks and take the safari bus to camp..

Sounds good... The bottom line is just use your head.

Even if the wind comes up the frontside is fishable because it's blocked off from the wind to an extent and gets no swell. Just stay tight to the island and fish close. If it's too windy when you arrive I'd say just fish the frontside and catch the bus to little harbor to camp. The drag is the return bus is at noon so you would not get much fishing time in either day but it beats paddling through really really bad conditions, or not fishing at all.

If I was going and the forecast was iffy: I'd maybe take a backpack that could hold all my gear, pack lite, then if it's windy fish the frontside, lock the yak to something leaving things that no-one would steal like waders inside it, go to little harbor, camp, sleep there, break camp at first light, hike back and fish untill I'd have to catch Flyer. It's less then five miles on the TC trail. Depending on your health it might be tough, but I'd do it for the added fishing time.

Additionally I know that at times in the past they have allowed overflow camping at two harbors when conditions were too rough for boats. So if push came to shove they might even allow you to camp somewhere around the harbor. The deal is that will not tell you that because they want to discourage it except for emergencies.

Jim