Approaching the end of my schooling here in northern California got me wanting that infamous limit of ten inch abalone. I've passed up a handful of limits in the past as a respect to the resource, but due to a rapidly approaching move out date, I decided to give it a go. I did the drive south to Mendocino and was greeted by conditions that were much worse than expected (but certainly better than here in Humboldt).
Visibility was 3-10. The abs were almost all located in the 3-5ft vis but the fish were easy to find out in deeper clearer, 10ft vis water.
After about 6 hours I finished my haul. I had found five ten inch abalone, taken three (a limit), along with a couple 'eater' lings, a nice grass rockfish, and my personal best black rockfish at 7lbs.
Ten incher on rock-
Black rockfish in the haze-
My 10 5/8 incher (my largest of the day)-
My overall catch-
Congrats