Homer Winter King Derby Roll call - March 19, 2016

My Kayaker fellow my friends and I are going to Homer this weekend. Any suggestions? Weather conditions? Should we cancel?

My Kayaker fellow my friends and I are going to Homer this weekend. Any suggestions? Weather conditions? Should we cancel?

Keep an eye on the wind direction. Assuming you will be fishing off the spit, a north/northeast wind shouldn't really spoil your day since the spit will offer protection. I was out last weekend during a gale warning with forecasted 6 footers but since it was a NE wind, I was only dealing with 2' chop. If that wind had been say from the South, it would be a definite no go. It's ultimately your call depending on abilities of crew/gear etc.

SwansonSilver [emoji106]

Anyone going to Homer this weekend?  Me and my son will be on the spit tonight. Hope tomorrow weather will nice...

Anyone going to Homer this weekend?  Me and my son will be on the spit tonight. Hope tomorrow weather will nice...

Looks like a small craft advisory through tomorrow for high winds and 6' seas.

Check out the links at the bottom of kardinal_84's profile, a lot of great info on his blogs.

I think most of us have the VHF radios, the derby broadcasts on VHF and you log in with them on VHF. I use UHF when messing around talking to my wife sometimes when on the water though.

Can anyone recommend a good VHF under $150? I'd rather mess around with a floating comm device versus my smart phone out on the water.

This is my. Less than 150. From Amazon [emoji106]

Anyone kayaker on the Spit This weekend?

Anyone kayaker on the Spit This weekend?

I fished yesterday and this morning before the weather came in. Caught a few small halibut and one king trolling a herring 30' down in 60' of water.

What do you think of tomorrow 15kt?

Usally from my experience if the forecast on the spit has an easterly component to it and is 3 ft and under you can fish the spit, we went yesterday and it was pretty rough managed a bunch of short halibut kept one also caught a skate that must have been 100 pounds great gear tester, if you want to see what your gear will handle find 230 ft drop something big and stanky down it doesn't take long my buddy caught 3 big skates yesterday but he was trying to lol its fun though kind of a big fish fix for winter

gravesjacob, will you be trolling tomorrow? Mind if we join you ?

I might be im not sure yet I should this evening and yeah absolutely

yep trolling tomorrow weather looks dicey but its never stopped me before see ya there