jmcdtucson
Guest
Fished off Encanto and around Morua this week. Man, those were some crazy low tides. The reef at the entrance had a mile of exposed sand around it at low tide and I almost couldn't get the kayak there. I learned a valuable lesson about how fast the tide changes when I saw my kayak starting to catch the incoming tide even though I'd pulled it in 50 yards just a few minutes earlier. That was my fastest 1/4 mile sprint in years...
The fishing wasn't good compared to last year. This was not surprising due to timing of the tides (high tide in the early afternoon) and I also didn't have much fishing time due to sick kids.
But I caught a few decent corvina right near the beach house off Encanto. I went to the estuary, but didn't catch much but sand bass and the water was fairly low in the morning.
I then went out and tried to find the reef some one mentioned that is in 40 ft. of water a mile off the beach but I must not have gone far enough. I was in 43 feet of water at near low tide at what seemed to me to be over a mile but was getting pretty tired since I'd also paddled out to the estuary and my total distance that morning was 6 or 7 miles including some nasty headwinds coming back.
There was a neat little reef just 1/4 mile off shore from the beach house that held all the sand bass and triggers you could care to catch. It'd be a good place to take the kids.
My POS tachyon camera that is supposedly waterproof died on its first saltwater foray, but I did manage one picture. This was caught about 50 yards off the beach and was at most 18".
The fishing wasn't good compared to last year. This was not surprising due to timing of the tides (high tide in the early afternoon) and I also didn't have much fishing time due to sick kids.
But I caught a few decent corvina right near the beach house off Encanto. I went to the estuary, but didn't catch much but sand bass and the water was fairly low in the morning.
I then went out and tried to find the reef some one mentioned that is in 40 ft. of water a mile off the beach but I must not have gone far enough. I was in 43 feet of water at near low tide at what seemed to me to be over a mile but was getting pretty tired since I'd also paddled out to the estuary and my total distance that morning was 6 or 7 miles including some nasty headwinds coming back.
There was a neat little reef just 1/4 mile off shore from the beach house that held all the sand bass and triggers you could care to catch. It'd be a good place to take the kids.
My POS tachyon camera that is supposedly waterproof died on its first saltwater foray, but I did manage one picture. This was caught about 50 yards off the beach and was at most 18".
