Just a small handful out in La Jolla this morning. The water is looking nice and clean, it has shed it's nasty red tide for now. Did the WSB shuffle on the inside for nada---you're wondering what that means? Well, the local seabass bite has been steady and pretty much confined to a small area and they're biting real well on greenback macs, so I took the one I could get out of the mass of spanish macs and dragged it all over the kelp edge for nada..I haven't seen or heard of a fish out of the La Jolla kelp under 40# for a few weeks, so it's worth spending some time working for em...
After that got old, I headed towards the NW corner where the terns were swirling about. Out in the bull kelp at 80-90 ft I got picked up on a flyline spanish real delicately. bip bip bip on the clicker, let it go until it got some steam and then it stopped. Put it in gear and wound tight on a fish! It sounded with nice tail thumpin and all....but alas, i was quickly in a stalemate with what felt like the bottom. Heaved and I hoed and got nothing but a hook back and a huge chuck of bull kelp.
That's when I looked around and noticed just how prolific the bull kelp is this season. Not like last spring (before the die off) but "antlers" all over the place all the way out to the corner it seems.....got back to trolling and had an exact repeat of the first one, but got a few more minutes of fun. Those timid strikes really threw me off, and left me with a fresh fish and alot of line out on them in tough spot to win the battle.
I don't feel as bad losing em to the kelp as I do losing em to open water.
All that said, Yes I suck.
The New Seaforth was parked on the WSB spot for the second half of the morning. It will be interesting to see if a sporty can get a little love from what has been pretty much a kayak and skiff seabass bite...
Just wanted to post a report because I've been slacking lately....beat the overall skunk with a scooter and a calico on the surface iron....
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