Hi everyone,

I'm happy to report that I finally got the skunk out of my new Outback! I went out on Wednesday 4/10 and fished Rudy's route in Homer, this was my second time fishing from the kayak. I caught four small Halibut (nothing worth keeping) and three fairly large Sculpin. The GoPro died an hour in so I only managed to record the first catch but I'll post the link below.

I started out with 12/0 circle hooks on a spreader bar with a big squid. You'll see in the video the first sculpin isn't even hooked, he just rode that bait all the way up and let go once I had him in the net. Rudy mentioned during his presentation last weekend that this exact scenario would happen but I just had to learn the lesson myself I guess. I landed one more sculpin with the circle hooks (same outcome, didn't even hook him) before moving over to a double 6/0 Gamakatsu rig with some herring. Next time I'll be better equiped!


Finally, I know I shouldn't have used the net. Since this was my first fish I was really only interested in my safety since I'm still
 learning the mechanics of landing a fish from the kayak, if one or two slimey sculpin have to die for that to happen then so be it. I was also hesitant about getting one of those things on my lap, they have some nasty barbs!


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Who's coming out this weekend? The weather might hold out for us.

Lucky guy. Kayak fishing in SE Alaska is on my bucket list, even though I enjoy it quite often in the State of Jefferson.