La Jolla Sunday, Whales & Rockfishing - Kayak Fishing Adventures on Big Water’s Edge

Lipripper92592 · 12-15-2014, 02:00 PM

Bert and I headed to La Jolla around 4am Sunday morning for some rockfishing and try to dial in my "new" HDS7 touch. Not a soul at the launch and fairly small swell made it easy to head to the grounds. The plan was to hit a few piles that we had fished in the past, and look for new piles to add as waypoints for future fishing.
While hitting a rock pile, I notice what could be best described as a huge torpedo, wake and all heading toward me about 400 yards off. Then bam, whale breaches and smacks back down. Time to get the camera rolling. Shot some film of this whale. I think he/she was tearing up the macks at around 100' down, as the birds were picking up the leftovers on the top.
A few weeks ago I got rocked by something "unknown" on this particular pile, and after about 10 minutes of fighting, the line snaps.
Well this time, Bert hooks up into something similar, five minutes of fighting, and pop goes the hook. We'll be back to this pile and see if we can ever land this "beast" of the deep. Bert got some nice reds, me....tossed back a sheep and that was about it. It laid down nice for a few hours. Better luck next time!

12-15-2014, 02:00 PM	#1
Lipripper92592 Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2012 Posts: 516	La Jolla Sunday, Whales & Rockfishing Bert and I headed to La Jolla around 4am Sunday morning for some rockfishing and try to dial in my "new" HDS7 touch. Not a soul at the launch and fairly small swell made it easy to head to the grounds. The plan was to hit a few piles that we had fished in the past, and look for new piles to add as waypoints for future fishing. While hitting a rock pile, I notice what could be best described as a huge torpedo, wake and all heading toward me about 400 yards off. Then bam, whale breaches and smacks back down. Time to get the camera rolling. Shot some film of this whale. I think he/she was tearing up the macks at around 100' down, as the birds were picking up the leftovers on the top. A few weeks ago I got rocked by something "unknown" on this particular pile, and after about 10 minutes of fighting, the line snaps. Well this time, Bert hooks up into something similar, five minutes of fighting, and pop goes the hook. We'll be back to this pile and see if we can ever land this "beast" of the deep. Bert got some nice reds, me....tossed back a sheep and that was about it. It laid down nice for a few hours. Better luck next time!