Good Friday was a holiday at work, so, I went fishing. I took my Kickboat over to Capitola and launched off the beach. I went out to the outside kelp points for nothing but a few rockfish, then drifted back to the beach to look at some eye candy. :P As I passed a lone patch of kelp in shallow I scared something big. I started targeting small patches of kelp and at about 2:30 I finally caught one after missing 3 bites. All the bites seemed to come shortly after the sun would show through the fog. All the hits were on a olive backed, clear w/ silver flake bellied 4" FishTrap on a 1oz head. She went 29" and had a lot of eggs but they didn't seem very large.
On another note, I owe DougT a thanks. When we were at the Delta region Smith's Tourney, he talked about how he had removed the swivel base from the seat on his Kickboat. We both have Water Skeeter River Tamer II's and it got me thinking about how noisy the swivel base is and I finally removed it last weekend. I think it might have made a difference in how many hits I got. It used to lock/unlock with a loud click at the worst possible moments.

Tight lines,
Wade