Went down to Huntington Harbor today to join in my pal's maiden voyage with his float tube. I took my kayak. Planned to flip docks with a plan B to soak bait on a dropshot straight down.
At some point in that short, paragraph you might have thought, really? Today you did that? You thought THAT would be the thing to do today? Well I thought the wind would die out enough by noon, but it didn't really. So flipping docks didn't work out. No fish for us. Float tube was a much better option in the wind than the kayak though, lemme say that. We worked a 300 yard stretch in 3 hours but I kayaked 2 miles, nonstop adjustments. Better suited as a bait day for me. He casually sat wherever he wanted, casting while his legs made light work of the conditions. It was unnerving
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Over to the shore report...we got lunch at Duke's and then tried the beach from about 1600 til last light. We had the wind at our backs, the swell was a non-issue, and there was a wonderful trough and nice holes all around. Threw the crack and landed my 1st fish of the year on my 3rd cast.
A little later I got a little larger one close to the hard pack.
Jared beat his skunk with a dink perch.
An army of freighters were waiting outside the port. I hear that's on the verge of being called a national crisis. Clusterf$ck yak trip salvaged with the gorgeous sunset hour on the beach. 70 minutes both ways from and to Newbury Park.
