New to Site and Yakkin

Hello All,

Thought I would introduce myself.  Moved here from So Cal last year, took some adjusting to the weather but I love it.  Ive tried and tried to catch fish since getting here, but I just cant seem to get it right.  Spent lots of money on new gear, tried to follow tips from other sites.    Spent most of my fishin time in the ocean out of San Diego down into the islands, mostly top water stuff.  Catalina when the water temp was right, on the cattle boats. 

I decided to give yakkin a try since Im still a chicken to take my boat out on the river.  Anyway went into Sports Authority to get softball stuff and saw a fishing yak.  HMMMMMM so I bought it.  Its just a low end start yak, but so far lucky for me.  Its a Pelican Castaway 116 DLX.  It has 2 rod holders behind seat, rear hatch, front hatch, and a swivel rod holder middle of front legs.  I want to put a fish finder on it and a few other things.  I'm sure I will want to upgrade by next year, but this should be fun for this summer and give me chance to really get hooked. I took it out of Scappoose Bay yesterday and drug around a crawler and caught a few pan size cats ( All CPR'd) 

I look forward to chatting with you all.

Welcome girlzluvfishin,

Looks like you took our advice and found your way here from iFish.  Keep an eye on the Oregon regional board for chances to meet up with members and go fishing.  I too have been slow to start really catching fish here in Oregon since moving up last fall.  I'm basically writing this year off as a break in period.  From what I've seen fishing can be pretty good if you're in the right place at the right time.

Cheers,
Brian

Dang girl, took ya long enough to get here!   I figured you'd have been signed on over the weekend.  

Welcome aboard!

For the 4-1-1 on pimping your new yak, Zeelander is the man  (Start the countdown from 100 and before you're done, he'll have posted "Welcome to the cure!"  

For everything related to the latin names of fish, web wizardry, data manipulation and desparaging remarks   I offer for your consideration: bsteves

Me?  I just catch fish.
 

desparaging remarks: I'm so done with that.  Well, unless it involves you Spot, at least while you're ahead of me on AOTY.

Other than that, yeah I guess I'm the resident nerd.

Brian

Zeelander is the man  (Start the countdown from 100 and before you're done, he'll have posted "Welcome to the cure!"  

Well then, welcome to the cure! We've had a lot of new members this year and great to see some ladies in the mix too.

Z

For the 4-1-1 on pimping your new yak, Zeelander is the man  (Start the countdown from 100 and before you're done, he'll have posted "Welcome to the cure!"  

For everything related to the latin names of fish, web wizardry, data manipulation and desparaging remarks   I offer for your consideration: bsteves

Just for clarification, I've got nothin but love for these guys!  They've really carried me up the kayak fishing learning curve and they're great guys to fish with.

Thanks for the welcome! I bet this will be a fun site, looks like there are some characters here to keep things exciting! 

I will take some time later and read thru the past posts and kind of catch up! 

Welcome, kissy fishy!  What's that you're holding in your avatar pic??

Welcome to NWKA GLF. nice to some female types getting into Kayak fishing. If you ever get down Coos Bay way hit me up for some fishing on the big blue.

That is a salmon grouper and a red rock fish I caught at Catalina last year, I think I had way too much sun that day! 

Welcome,

I see you made it over from iFish and into a new yak.  Lots of fun to be had.

Greg

Salmon grouper??  I had to look that one up. Turns out I've always heard them called bocaccio.   Seems salmon grouper must be a SoCal regional name.  I wonder what Oregon regional names I need to learn now.  Of course, as Spot has pointed out, I'd prefer everyone use scientific names, but that isn't going to happen. Oh, FYI Spot...Sebastes paucispinis

Brian

       
"Sebastes paucispinis"

 Brian, you do [say] that again, and you'll clean it up !!

Bsteves, you are so right they do call them Boccaccio but I totally forgot that !  I will practice looking up the scientific names for any future posts!!!

Sebastes paucispinis = wormy fish! LMAO well that what the deck hands always said!