Its been about a month since I have fished the salt so I figured its about time to try for some flatties. Launched my yak at about 5:15 and paddled over to BKR in about a half an hour. It was WFO but on the wrong species, dink Gopher Rockfish and sculpin, so I tied on a white 7 inch scampi, casted out and was shocked to see a 10" sculpin had eaten it all the way to the hook! Those things are aggressive! I abandoned the heavy pullers and fished in shallow for a bit. Nothing there, I had some of those tap tap bites, probably halibut, but no hook ups. I saw a couple of BIG opaleye swimming around the kelp in 10 feet of water. That was it for the day, until I started paddling back home. I set up a bounce ball rig with a three way swivel, an 8 ounce ball sinker, and three feet of 15# mono with a Yo-Zuri crystal minnow at the end. I started paddling in the red tide, no FF but I think I was in about 50 ft. of water. Within ten minutes, my reel started screaming. I thought I had an albie at first. Then it started to slow down and after a short battle I had a bull calico in the yak. It was about an inch shorter than my halibut mark. I estimated it to be about 5 pounds(I'd rather under estimate than over estimate) Released without question. Kept trollin the same rig and hooked a lizard fish about the same size as the lure! Overall a slow day but all it took was one good fish make up for it.
Tight Lines,
Tommy