Pacific City this Saturday!

If this forecast stays as it is, me and a buddy will be launching around daylight if anyone cares to join in!

I’ll be trying for that as well as long as the forecast holds and no family plans get in the way.

I’ll be able to make it if everything holds.

I also plan to launch at first light with a couple others if things look good. It looks like the wind could be picking up in the afternoon. Probably better to get after it early just in case. See you out there!

Looks like a decent day for my maiden trip out of PC with good forecast and a gang of experienced folk.  What time should I be at the Pelican parking lot to launch with y’all?

Also, which forecast are you folks looking at? Magic seaweed or NOAA Bouy data?  NOAA has quite a bit more wind and slightly bigger swells.

Did fine out of Depot in marginal conditions with Clayman and Casey. Any “old timer” “lessons learned” for PC would be appreciated.

Bob aka Beer_Run

Any “old timer” “lessons learned” for PC would be appreciated.

Make it in as far as you can before you eat shit. If you gain decent yardage surfing that first wave then chances are you will be able to touch bottom or be just a short swim away from doing so. Touching bottom makes it a lot easier to corral your yard sale of floaters and get that gear back to shore.

The secondary swell is out of the SW on Saturday. If you huli out near the edge of the cape and cannot self rescue in a timely fashion you stand a good chance of being pushed onto the painfully pointy rocks and putting holes in your expensive drysuit.

Lastly but most importantly, let any approaching dory's have the right of way to the beach, and generally do your best to stay out of their way until you are entirely clear of the beach and have bellied up to the bar at the pub.

I will be there for an early launch and early landing.  Also bringing a crab trap and some light spinning gear and small swim baits for some rockfish action.

For those of you with radios, what channel are you running tomorrow? 7?

I'll be out there tomorrow, hope to meet a few of you who I haven't fished with yet.

Rudy - you still interested in that crab trap that we never managed to meet up about?

Channel 69 as always.

Thanks all for the tips.  Reading the thread it seems some are heading out at first light (which is what time?) and some 8:30-9am.  I would love to launch with some experienced folk but not totally clear who is heading out when.

Also, CRAB.  Are y’all taking traps? If so, what depth? I may need to get some more rope or skip the crabbing

Thanks and hope to see y’all on the water.

Bob

In the fall, I dropped traps a few hundred yards south of the rock and got only a few crab. Headed inside and dropped again only a hundred yards or so off the beach tight to the cape, and got double limits in 45 minutes.

I went out today for a few hours and it was really nice. I didn't spend too much time on lings because the topwater rockfish bite was too distracting. I love it when you can cast over the rockfish boils and get them every time on the fast retrieve. I would highly recommend bringing a lightweight spinning set-up and a smallish swimbait if you are heading out tomorrow (and like saltwater bass fishing as much as I do) because they are smacking the surface. Ended up with just one keeper ling and released a couple of bulldog cabezon.Good luck everybody and I hope you do better on lings than I did. I would love to hear how the crabbers do tomorrow, if you are willing to share.

Thanks all for the tips.  Reading the thread it seems some are heading out at first light (which is what time?) and some 8:30-9am.  I would love to launch with some experienced folk but not totally clear who is heading out when.

Also, CRAB.  Are y’all taking traps? If so, what depth? I may need to get some more rope or skip the crabbing

Thanks and hope to see y’all on the water.

Bob

Beer_Run, if this is your first time launching at PC let alone any surf launch, I would highly suggest making that a success story and hold off on adding a crab trap to the mix.  Get a feel for what the ocean can do to you and not add insult to injury on your first go round. 

Thanks all for the tips.  Reading the thread it seems some are heading out at first light (which is what time?) and some 8:30-9am.  I would love to launch with some experienced folk but not totally clear who is heading out when.

Also, CRAB.  Are y’all taking traps? If so, what depth? I may need to get some more rope or skip the crabbing

Thanks and hope to see y’all on the water.

Bob

My son and I are getting there between  0700-0730 and will be joined by Cosmo and heliumhead. We park on the beach if your there early enough and don’t have a ton of gear we can top your kayak on my car and put your gear in my trailer if your vehicle isn’t sand worthy.i always hit the bathroom on the way in, blue and silver Subaru Outback with a trailer sporting two Native propels.

I crab from my kayak just not at pc take INSAYN ‘S advice wait till your experienced and go minimal on extra crap not needed.

For those of you with radios, what channel are you running tomorrow? 7?

VHF 69