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Posted by Robert on 15:58:43 01/30/03
Got to Oceanside Harbor at 6:45 A.M. Paid $5 for parking. It was foggy, but it looked like it was lifting. I unloaded my kayak and all my gear and parked my truck. There was hardly anybody there except for 1 p.b.er and a few surfers. I was getting my rods rigged up and the fog rolled back in, and thick too! I decided to just fish the harbor because I don't have a G.P.S. yet and I was by myself. The fog also aided my decision to stay inside. I brought my Plano bucket and decided to try and make some bait. I hadn't done this from my kayak before. I paddled over to the fishing pier across from the bait reciever trolling a Rapala SL 20. I got to the pier and tied on a Sabiki with super small hooks tipped with small squid pieces and a 1 oz torpedo sinker. The first drop somthing slammed it hard. I reeled up a massive smelt about 14". I knew that wasn't going to catch anything so I let him go and dropped down again and caught one about 10". He was still kind of big, but I threw him in the Plano anyway. Then I was drifting away from the pier and started catching these tom cod about 4" long. They looked like pretty good bait. They were frisky as hell. I caught about 8 of them. I pinned them on my 10 lb spinning outfit. I had a 1 oz sliding sinker with a bead and a swivel with a 24" leader. Some people call that a Carolina Rig. I fished in front of the fishing pier for a while. I guess my battrey for my fishfinder didn't charge because when I turned it on all it did was blink on and off. I tried shutting it down and repowering it. That didn't work. Note to self: Get yourself one of those battery testers so you know if your battery has any juice. I was pretty much fishing blind. I paddeled over to an area with some rocky shoreline and threw 3" fishtraps in several colors, 4" power grubs in several colors tipped with squid for nothing. All the while I had the rig with the live bait on the bottom. The fog was lifting so I paddled to the mouth of the harbor slow trolling with the live bait for nothing. Then the fog came back in heavy. I decided to paddle back into the harbor so I wouldn't get run over by a p.b.er. I stopped to drift and throw some lures. A jointed Rebel Spoonbill and some more plastics. I got a strike on the live bait, but reeled in a bare hook. I only had a couple of baits left and the wind started to pick up a little so I decided to drift back to the launch ramp and throw plastics and lures along the way. I did this till 11:00 A.M. for nada. The fishing was slow, but it was nice being out on the water with very little boat traffic. I only saw one other kayak all morning and he wasn't fishing. The water was cold, about 59 degrees. I need to get a wetsuit. I'll be back to fish Oceanside again after it warms up a bit.
Robert
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