Missing Kayak Fisherman in la Jolla 5-5-10

[Aaron]

Originally Posted by dmrides

Definitely seems like a mis-communication and an overly eager search and rescue operation. Either way that is twice that "missing kayaker" has been in the headlines of a UT article in the last month or so. And perhaps the 4th or so publicized rescue efforts for kayakers since December. Some of these were completely unavoidable, some of them a result of poor decisions. I guess my point is, we all need to be more careful out there. We don't need to give any body any more reasons to close fishing grounds, boat launches, etc.

DITTO. The headline we don't want to see is, "Safety concerns for kayak fisherman in La Jolla spark debate regarding accessibility to this fishery."

Shouldn't someone be charged for the search and rescue operation if they jump the gun? It seems odd that the CG wouldn't have told the guy to wait a bit if the information was given to them as it is presented in the article.