Launched out of La Jolla yesterday with a buddy at 7:45. I got there and was shocked to see giant waves 4-6 feet in the surf. No Problem I just bought leashes for everything and was ready for the challenge. I timed the sets perfectly (pure luck)
and paddled out as fast as I could. Hit the first wave right before it crashed and up I went and straight back down perfect landing.
I thought this was awesome as it felt the rush similar to a roller coaster ride as I got mad air about 4 times in a row. Completely soaked but happy I didn’t get tossed in the drink!
Anyhow I look back for my buddy and seen he got stopped by the lifeguard as apparently the launch was closed due to some swim event and shortly after was called back in over the intercom by the lifeguard. Worst news ever as I now had to turn around and land my yak in the giant surf I just defeated.
To make a long story short I lost. Flipped my yak and into the drink I was. My buddy helped me recover the Yak but realized I snapped one of my Rods. I thought oh well it was for my Sabiki anyway.
Stuck on shore got packed up and seen another BWE member paddle in with the right kind, followed by another one. Yup their biting (2 Yellows) and another with a nice size Halibut. Damn! Well I found out we can launch to the left of the children’s pool as an alternative so off we went.
To cut to the chase we packed up, parked, launched and paddled out to the grounds. I get there drop in my sabiki with my broken rod and instantly hook up 2 squids I was super excited as this is my first time I ever made squid. I pulled em out the water and they start squirting everywhere I said oh shit I wasn’t ready for that so I dropped em back down as I opened my bait tank only to bring them back up and they got devoured by 2 giant green macks. Oh well I settled for the macks and they rocked my sabicki . No worries I start untangling it pulled a little too hard and Damn again I got one of the hooks buried in my hand! Far enough were I couldn’t get it out! Damn I happened to be close enough to a PBer who kindly let me burrow his Pliers as I somehow forgot mine. About 10 mins later bloody hand but problem solved and back to fishing I was with fresh bait.
Unfortunately I didn’t catch anything but ended up feeding the seals. My Sabiki was destroyed so time to paddle back in after an hour of some dropper loop dead squid action for nothing. So rough landing as I almost got rocked again but made it this time only to realize my broken rod with my shimano torium 20 somehow was gone with just the leash attached to my yak. I somehow failed to leash it down right.
Oh well I will chalk the day up as a loss and time spent on the water! Had a great day thou despite the hook in my hand and paying my taxes. However the fish are still biting! And if anyone finds a Torium 20 attached to a broken rod Id gladly take it back!
So my only ? is I never made squid before and didn’t realize they squirt everywhere so What do you guys do to not get squirted and once I take the squid off the sabiki what is the proper way to hook them as I was planning on flylining 1 and using the dropper loop on another?