La Jolla 1-15-2021 - Kayak Fishing Adventures on Big Water’s Edge

BenCantrell · 01-17-2021, 07:42 AM

Haha, hey that's my yellow and red kayak at the launch!

That's nuts about the whale!

FISH11 · 01-17-2021, 08:07 AM

Yeah the whales are cool when they are around, but a little scary when they get real close. It's the second time I've had one wrap my line. The first one was on Dec. 31, 2013 and it was a Grey Whale as big as a bus and he was coming right at me for a long distance. He ended up going under and coming up along side around 20'-25' to my left and I got it on video using my cell phone. Pulled some stills from the video and all the barnacles on it's back are visible and when he went down and the fluke was straight up and down, the picture shows my 65 lb braid coming off the top of the fluke and running diagonally across the picture and out the right margin.. That's one of the coolest picture that I've gotten out at LJ. Here is a link to my utube video post at that time. The weird click click noise is the shutter on the other camera I was using along side, but that video was not as good. I had my sunglasses on and could not see the screen so the video is not as steady as it could have been. https://youtu.be/kIw4V1casnA . .

rdahl · 01-17-2021, 05:33 PM

Awesome video! I've been fairly calm when close to whales great job on staying calm on my yak, but I would have been dropping a few f bombs at the end there. Nice job staying relaxed.

01-17-2021, 08:07 AM	#2
FISH11 Member Join Date: Aug 2013 Location: Pine Valley when not fishing La Jolla Posts: 2,643	Yeah the whales are cool when they are around, but a little scary when they get real close. It's the second time I've had one wrap my line. The first one was on Dec. 31, 2013 and it was a Grey Whale as big as a bus and he was coming right at me for a long distance. He ended up going under and coming up along side around 20'-25' to my left and I got it on video using my cell phone. Pulled some stills from the video and all the barnacles on it's back are visible and when he went down and the fluke was straight up and down, the picture shows my 65 lb braid coming off the top of the fluke and running diagonally across the picture and out the right margin.. That's one of the coolest picture that I've gotten out at LJ. Here is a link to my utube video post at that time. The weird click click noise is the shutter on the other camera I was using along side, but that video was not as good. I had my sunglasses on and could not see the screen so the video is not as steady as it could have been. https://youtu.be/kIw4V1casnA . . Attached Images __________________ MARK ......... 2016 MALIBU X FACTOR, 2020 SOLO SKIFF (Fishing Kayak on Steroids ) Last edited by FISH11; 01-17-2021 at 12:51 PM. Reason: Added pict.s and spelling

01-17-2021, 07:42 AM	#1
BenCantrell Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2017 Location: Sebastian, Florida Posts: 238	Haha, hey that's my yellow and red kayak at the launch! That's nuts about the whale!

01-17-2021, 05:33 PM	#3
rdahl Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 48	Awesome video! I've been fairly calm when close to whales great job on staying calm on my yak, but I would have been dropping a few f bombs at the end there. Nice job staying relaxed.