DAY: 12-08-01

TIME: 9-11 AM

PLACE: West end of Del Playa, IslaVista

CONDITIONS: 6-10 Knots breeze and 3 ft swell

BAIT: Fish traps, Sardine and something with orange on the bottom

FISH COUNT: 3 Sand Bass and 2 Calico’s

COMENTS: My Buddy Dave and I Borrowed a couple of Kayaks from a coworker and did our first “Yak expedition”
Now how cool of is it, when your talking in the hallway about renting a Kayak and were you are going to go fishing… and somebody walks by and says “I have two kayaks on a cart, two blocks from the beach, you can use them any time” So we showed up with our life jackets, fanny packs loaded with plastics and a rod each.
First of all beggars cant be choosers but, Single Kayaks from the Costco are not the best fishing platforms, The boats actually worked pretty good. I have not paddled that many other boats but my feeling was these didn’t track very well and were not as stable as some of the other boats I have paddled Also was bummed that one of the paddles wasn’t even bladed, Luckily Dave didn’t mind and I got the good paddle.
On to the fishing, plenty of kelp and the water was clear and cold (my the foot thermometer says mid fifties) we spent a fair amount of time just paddling around looking at stuff it was a beautiful day, then some dicking around in the kelp getting our lines hung up. And then we started the productive fishing. We found that setting up a drift just outside and parallel to the kelp bed, while bouncing a ¾ once lead head with a swim bait on was the ticket. Pretty much every drift produced a fish and we farmed (lost) more than we caught.
Side note: When we returned the Kayaks to the house there was a Trampoline, Yes Dave can still do a forward flip….


Matty