Kayak Fishing around Sekiu

Buzzbombs will work for rockies and lings, but I would stick to cheaper leadhead jigs and save the Bombs for salmon.

I keep leashes to a minimum, too. That usually means none, unless you count the retracters for my clippers and forceps.

Hi Alfonso,
Here is a link to how to make those leashes. I haven't found the heavy mono yet but someday I will.

http://www.jaxkayakfishing.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=14629

I hope it works for you. Let me know what you do.
Thanks,
David

THAT'S IT, THAT'S IT!!!!  Way to be.  Another secret one of the guys up there gave me was that there is a wreck of some kind straight out from the put-in on the little beach by Snow Creek Fishing Resort.  If a person has bottom detection, he/she can find that wreck and fish the close outskirts of it for some huge lings, according to the fellow with whom I spoke.  I didn't see any of the those, but I watched as others came from fishing the various kelp beds with their limits of the kelp denizens, including what I thought I heard someone say was a "kelp trout"?!  The kelp beds are prolific all over that area.

Great report, Alfonso. As far as leashes go, I also keep them to a minimum. Got one on my paddle now, and that's it. I have some I made for my rods, but haven't used them yet. I use straight bungee in thin diameters, so I can keep them as short as possible.
When I was buying my Tarpon 140 last Saturday, Nanook and I discussed leashes, and he mentioned that those coiled "phone cord" style ones can easily get fouled with any other lines and drive you batty.  He counseled me to avoid them. Also, you can make your own bungee leash for less than 1/10th the price of a store-bought one.
I'll be fishing rockfish and lings off the South Jetty here from my Tarpon in the future, on light S wind days, starting at the low tide change and fishing the incoming.  Paddle on over for a chat. Lings are open here until Oct 15th.

Can one simply throw a large kelp bulb over the bow or wind some around one foot to keep from drifting, or just tie up or clip onto some with a large clip?

"Kelp trout" are probably Greenlings. I keep the big ones and throw all the small ones back. Good eatin!!!!

Thanks for the report on the secret wreck. If I'm ever up there, I will look for it.

ok, i'll dig up or take pics of my leashes. simple, no coil things made of nylon braided line from ACE. btw, almost all my leashes are used in the interior of my boat. i dont use a lot of them on the outside. paddle, rod, and maybe one to rope some of my X tools together, thats it. inside, i use 'em stringer fashion to keep things from getting out of easy access.

really glad to hear that you've done some fishing in different spots and that things are working well for you. amazing how many different species a person can catch just by moving a few miles one way or another.

Cone head, where do you find the bulk bungee line?  I'd snap it up in a second if I could figure out where to go.  Just getting out is such a big deal sometime, unless I've got everything planned properly.  The tethers are my biggest hang-up right now, because if I could just make sure that the milk crate is put together, then that's just a matter of carrying it outside and strapping it in place in the well behind the seat.  If that part of it were put together, the whole matter of getting out could be stream-lined by a half hour or so...  It takes a certain amount of time to throw on the dry or wetsuit and booties, put the kayak onto the rig and strap it down, throw the mirage drive and paddles and pole and seat and pfd and wheels and milk crate into the rig, and then boogie down the beach to wherever I'm going to fish.  But the mile crate is an essential hub around which everything in the kayak revolves and if it's put together badly, like it was for me and my fam in Sekiu, it's a potential tragedy.  Planning it has become paramount prior to my next trip.  The salmon are starting to run in some of our local little rivers and I'd like to get into them, but I'm not ready yet.

Seattle Fabrics has all sorts of materials for gear and apparel creation.  Unfortunately they are in Seattle, but fortunately they have a web store.

http://www.seattlefabrics.com/

There may be something similar in Portland or Salem.

Bulk bungee can usually be found in any marine supply store. It would be near the spools of line and rope. I got mine at Englund Marine in Westport. They had a large spool of 1/4" bungee. They didn't have the smaller diameter black stuff that you often see as part of the factory rigging on SOTs, but the 1/4" is very strong, and light enough that it doesn't seem too bulky for rigging on yaks.
I have also found bulk spools of bungee in local hardware stores before, but any marine supply store should have it.

I have also found that anything I can do to streamline my rigging and set-up process is worthwhile. I've got a milk crate setup now, and try to take only what I need for the day's trip, plus the normal survival/emergency stuff we all talk about here.

I have found that by using a canoe/kayak trailer that I can leave my Ultimate 12 mostly rigged (with spray skirts and anchor trolley on, drybag with emergency items stuffed up under the forward spray skirt) as it rides upright and in the slipstream of my vehicle.
 I can back it down a boat ramp, throw my yak in the water, bungee in my milk crate, and load my fishing rods, net, small cooler, and paddle, then attach my anchor line to the ring on my trolly, and I'm off! I'm usually launched and under way within 15 minutes of arriving at a boat ramp.
It takes longer when I have to car-top and then carry or cart my boat to the water.

You mentioned emergency/survival stuff...I've got a VHF submersible radio now, but again putting that someplace on a tether becomes a matter of careful planning also.  What other exigent supplies should a person have?  I've got floatation and airbags in my SOT and pool noodles in the other.  Coming up with a coil tether and a velcro patch for the knife seems to be in order.  I've got to tether my pole(s) because I am not going to lose another one without a fight.  I always wear a pfd even if I'm surf fishing.  What's missing?  I was looking at the checklist of some of the pros but I'm into the meat aspect only. 

I always carry a flare or two in my dry bag, in case I need to signal. Also a compass, but I need a better hand-held than the cheapie I have now. But I am installing a dash-mount Ritchie Sport marine compass in the front end of a footwell (I haven't decided yet on a new fish-finder/gps, or a new fish-finder and a separate handheld gps).  I also carry a spare wool watchcap, a space blanket, and my waterproof VHF (was in drybag in my U-12, but will be outside and "on" when on the salt in my Tarpon).
Also, a small compressed air signal horn. Much louder than a whistle.
I need to get a new knife that I can tether. Right now I carry a couple of folding "lock blade" knives, one on a lanyard, but I want something beefier with a longer blade that rides in a sheath.

Cone... .McClendons Hardware has the bulk bungee in 3 different sizes.

Cool.  Great additions.  Fall schedule has started and I'm a teacher.  Cowabunga!!!!  See you on the brine sooner or later.