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  1. I'd like the following: 3 ea: 5/0 hook, red/yellow with crystal flash 3 ea: 5/0 hook, red/white with crystal flash 3 ea: 3/0 hook, red/yellow with crystal flash 3 ea: 3/0 hook, red/yellow with crystal flash
  2. Interesting take on the pedal drive. I love my pedal drive, but it actually leaves me longing for paddling. Once we move early next year, I'll definitely be adding a paddle yak to the fleet. It might not be for fishing, maybe touring, but I really miss paddling at times.
  3. Have you gone for a trial swim in your gear? I'm not starting a "waders will kill you" type thing. I'm asking purely from a cold water shock standpoint. I've done cold water survival training... it's no joke to be in cold water in any gear. Without a 3-layer system like a drysuit, water below 50° F is serious stuff. I agree with the OP here... everyone should go for a controlled swim in what they wear in their kayak to get the full experience before their life depends on it.
  4. You can still throw lures in the wind. Think aerodynamics, though. When it's really windy and I still want to throw... out come the Hopkins with very light bucktail, the Ava jigs, the Krocodile spoons, the heavier Kastmasters, the Deadly Dicks, etc. You don't necessarily need to go all the way to 4 ounce. I don't think I've ever thrown a 1/2 ounce Kastmaster in the surf... I keep that one for the back bays. 1 ounce is about as minimum as I go on metal in the surf. A 2 ounce Kastmaster might've been enough to punch through Thursday's wind.
  5. Good general advice, but many kayaks have reinforced scuppers to address this problem. All Hobies from a certain year on have reinforced scuppers so their carts don't cause leaks. I've yet to hear someone get a leak in the reinforced scuppers.
  6. It's been equally quiet for rockfish and lingcod in HMB for the kayak, too.
  7. When there are negative tides, it's a great place to go poke poling.
  8. Yep, they're lead "shad jig heads" with rubber swim baits on them. I love fishing them around the rocks. 90% of the time on the kayak, I'm fishing swimbaits, too. I love them. What's involved... first you have to rig them up. Lots of videos around for how to do that. One trick I use to secure them is little zip ties instead of gluing in place. It's a lot easier for me to fix or re-rig a torn up swimbait with wet hands while sitting on the 'yak or standing in the surf using zip ties than glue or any other method I've tried. I also like to tie a dropper loop about 18" above my swimbait and run a bucktail teaser from there. How to fish 'em... It's a basic retrieve to get action on the swimbait. Let it drop to the bottom and then let it cruise just above bottom. Try other parts of the water column if that's not producing. Where to get 'em... @Dan Tinman has threads in the commercial bst forums and I've fished a lot of his gear -- high quality stuff. HTLureCo on eBay is also a good spot and I have many shad jig heads from him. As for swimbaits, Big Hammer are super popular, but I find them to be too soft and fall apart too easily. 1 hit from a lingcod and it's usually done. I've been really liking the Pitbull Tackle swimbaits and I get them from Outdoor Pro Shop in Cotati (they ship). They seem to hold up really well and still have good action.
  9. You'll cast farther by learning how to cast than by adding a foot to your rod length. That same hi-lo rig I mentioned for perch is also used by bait-n-wait folks for stripers. Not my area whatsoever, though, so I'll let the master baiters chime in. I'm far too impatient and fidgety to do any passive approaches to fishing.
  10. It's a toss up on those rods. 1 foot isn't going to make or break your crabbing trip. I'd return the more expensive one -- simple as that. The Penn Battle II is a great reel. Between the Daiwa BG and the Battle II, it really just comes down to personal preference. Each has pros and cons compared to the other, but they average out in my opinion. As for what you can do with that rod outside of crab season? That'll do well even for your perch fishing. You can toss hi-lo rigs in some thick water with 4 or 6 oz of lead at the end with that quite easily. Not my personal preference as I get more enjoyment out of light tackle, but it'd be a productive setup.
  11. I use bucktails for stripers. I grew up throwing bucktails on the east coast, though, so they're well within my comfort zone. I've never been one for caring about color much. I mostly throw white, but I have some chartreuse, too. I throw blurple at night. Bucktails present as a small bait fish, so you're matching the hatch. I use just enough weight to cruise right above the bottom. In windy conditions, I sometimes use a heavier bucktail for better casting, but one with less hair on it so it rides higher in the water column for the given conditions. John Skinner's book on bucktail fishing is really good if that's your thing. Just because I don't catch surfperch on bucktails doesn't mean it's not possible. I can't produce on half the lures I see folks catching on in this forum because I haven't put the time in to master them. I can only share what works for me, but don't let that discourage you from breaking new ground.
  12. I haven't found it too difficult to pee while wearing waders. I wear a tiderunner surfbelt and attach my plug bag to the surfbelt. So, I loosen the surfbelt, remove the shoulder strap from my plug bag and then drop waders to knee height. Pee as normal and back to the surf.
  13. I haven't had much luck during low tide. Most of my luck is in the top half of the incoming tide, when there's thick water nearer shore and the surf is beating up the sand. I've never caught a surfperch on bucktails, though, that is anecdotal. I love fishing bucktails, so it's not for lack of trying. Try shortening your leader to 3'. Your technique is sane otherwise. When the wave picks up the weight, I give a bunch of cranks to catch up and then let it settle back down. If it's taking long to settle back down, or if every wave is picking it up and moving it, I go heavier on weight. In some of the stronger surf on steeper beaches, that means I'm using 1.5 oz sometimes. As for the one or two hours, obviously the longer you spend the better your chances, but that's not a requirement. I often only have an hour or two to fish and I try to capitalize on the last 2 hours of the incoming in that case.
  14. Remember that YouTubers don't post the hours and hours and hours and hours of footage of them being skunked. You're only seeing them being successful. YouTube has made people think all they need to do is show up and cast out and they'll be on fish. They don't see all the work that goes into finding the fish -- learning to read the water, putting the time in on spots in different conditions, logging catches and correlating conditions to behaviors. If you want guaranteed fish every time you go out, there are many great seafood markets in our area
  15. Forum went haywire on me...
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