Please help - Kayak Fishing Adventures on Big Water’s Edge

taggermike · 04-21-2011, 08:58 AM

You might want to try the search function for some of your questions. If your comfortable on your yak and have the fishing thing some what down then, like evilkhemists said, just go for it. You can learn just by watching down at the launch as others go out through the surf. The out fit you described will work for bait and bottom fishing. Live bait will help you catch more fish and is about required to catch WSB. Plastics are good in LJ but are not the ticket, usually, for YT or WSB. I'm not in the damn WSB club, yet, but majority of the YT I have caught in LJ have been on slow trolled live mackeral(fly lined/no weight), then in decending order-surface iron, yo-yo iron, and 2 on plastics. Things are kinda slow right now but get out there, learn the lay out, get comfortable, and have fun. You can target bass, rockfish, white fish, ling cod, and sheephead on the bottom with squid, shrimp, or plastics. I caught my first LJ kayak YT on a kinda, nasty, windy, rainy day flylining a live smelt. LJ is a beautiful place, get out there and enjoy it. Mike

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04-21-2011, 08:58 AM	#8
taggermike Senior Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Chula Vista Posts: 1,589	You might want to try the search function for some of your questions. If your comfortable on your yak and have the fishing thing some what down then, like evilkhemists said, just go for it. You can learn just by watching down at the launch as others go out through the surf. The out fit you described will work for bait and bottom fishing. Live bait will help you catch more fish and is about required to catch WSB. Plastics are good in LJ but are not the ticket, usually, for YT or WSB. I'm not in the damn WSB club, yet, but majority of the YT I have caught in LJ have been on slow trolled live mackeral(fly lined/no weight), then in decending order-surface iron, yo-yo iron, and 2 on plastics. Things are kinda slow right now but get out there, learn the lay out, get comfortable, and have fun. You can target bass, rockfish, white fish, ling cod, and sheephead on the bottom with squid, shrimp, or plastics. I caught my first LJ kayak YT on a kinda, nasty, windy, rainy day flylining a live smelt. LJ is a beautiful place, get out there and enjoy it. Mike