4/17 a tad late....

[esdees]

Inspiration! Thanks Dan. I'll at least go check out the launch tomorrow after work, and if the wind isn't competely horrible I'll probably go.

-Patrick

[mars]

Awesome fish Dan. What do you do with it at work? Freezer available?

One of my problems fishing before work - if I get lucky - I have to drive back to NC to clean/prep my catch then back to Mission Valley to work. Pain in the ass.

I need to figure something out.

-kvn

[Dan]

Originally Posted by mars

Awesome fish Dan. What do you do with it at work? Freezer available?

I work in a lab so the fish gets packed in ice (from the ice machine) and stored in our walk in cold room...

[gary sullivan]

Of course Dan has to pay off his boss with hamachi for coming in late on a hot bite day.

[lamb]

Nice hefty piece Dan!!!

Today was pretty ugly out there...

Launched early... With low tide and bigger swell, some sets were breaking under the pier light. Only managed 1 micro spanish. As the daylight moved in, found big bait ball in 40ft SW from the Pier and quickly loaded up.

Surprisingly, not too much traffic – 7-8 PBers and that many kayaks.
I heard the guy who's got a report up on BD on the radio...

There was a ton of birds on the outside… Way outside.... Never caught up to them.

Wind kicked up around 9:00 AM… It was a major pain to paddle into the wind + pretty descent downhill current… Took forever to come back.

Water brownish, about 10’ visibility. I was reading 59 – 61 temps…

I managed a couple of pencil cudas and 1 calico.

The swell picked up een more by 11:00AM, so landing was dicey.... Hight tide didn't help. Slid on one and jumped out in 4ft of h2o before the 2nd 2' breaking wave caught up to me… 4 + 2 = got me wet almost up to mu chin... Didn’t roll, but I was wet like I did… lol

Good seeing everyone.

[h2ofishfo]

yeah buddy fished MB & watched all the boaters come in w/6 yt each on 4/18 he felt like a dooooooosh ha