Posts by Tailsurfer

  • Whites Point Land Slide San Pedro, CA

    Any chance that this land slide may create a new surf break? or is most of the material in that landslide just loose dirt and sand?


    One thing that is for sure is if that road is not cleaned up and the landslide caries it further out to sea, that may just make for some perfect lobster structure.

  • Whites Point Land Slide San Pedro, CA

    Quote from chris oak

    Out of curiosity Josh, how many legal wsb have you shot from that slide spot? I'd have to say it can be fishy, and certainly holds fish when the season time is right but no way is it fish galore unless you are counting opies and garabaldis. I know a lot of other spots around pv that hold more and bigger fish.


    I didn't say anything about diving... I agree the vis is always nasty over there, but we have had some WO wsb bites on H&L over there.

  • Epic night on the water... off Laguna Beach 11/17/11

    I met Daniel at 6pm last night in soon to be closed Laguna Beach with a plan to hit an outer reef. Luckily the night was not to foggy, and the waves were nil so we walked down the path and packed up our kayaks. My scupper is quite small and only fit my weight belt and fins and anchor, so everything else was put in my game bag and clipped on to the yak. Also, I rigged up a sweet little rack for my polespear. The kayak tracked very well in the water and I could even paddle a little bit and stop and the kayak would keep going. :D We got to the spot pretty quick. Daniel wanted to hit one reef that he had gotten limits of bugs and I wanted to hit another that “looked decent.” :laughing:


    We decided on my choice for start at and got in, but with the tide low it was hard to get to the bugs through all the kelp. After about 30 minutes Daniel had 6 and I had 4; nothing huge, but the 2 females that I had had tails 3x the size of the males even though the CL was almost the same. We then started towards Daniels spot and he looked up and said it was too shallow and he was heading outside for deeper water… well I told myself that there is no such thing as too shallow and just 10ft from Daniel on top of a pinnacle in 2ft of water I found the largest of the night for me.:thumbsup2: Nothing huge, but simply bigger than the rest. It was in the process of molting and Later that night I found a whole molt left inside my bag.


    The Sheephead:
    We were getting kinda far from our yaks and after seeing a nice goat’s tail in a hole I went back for my kayak… and the polespear. I got to the spot dropped anchor, and straight below me was the hole. The sheephead was gone! Well Daniel had his limit so he help me look in the area for the sheephead. About 15ft away he found it DEEP in a very small hole. One side it could escape and the other we could see him, but he couldn’t escape. We teamed up to land him. I had the polespear set at 4ft, but that was even to long to fit in that hole. Daniel scared him to the other side and I shot him in the tail through the small hole. He went crazy and the slip-tip came out. I shot him again, this time closer to the tail, and he wedge himself in.
    Early on I had thought he was maybe 5lbs, but when we began to get our hands on the tail to pull him out we agreed he was more like 10lbs. Well we could not pull him out, he was too big and the hole was too small. I pulled as hard as I could till tore the slip-tip out again. By that time, 30 min in, he had bludgeoned and/or bled himself to death. A big Moray came over to eat him but I wacked it with my light and it shot away. Daniel tried pushing him back to the bigger hole. After about 10 minutes of us ramming him through, he got wedge in and he was stuck. I could see his chin from the bigger hole, but the 4ft was too long to fit in the hole and he was too far back to hand grab!:@


    Thank God for collapsible JBL polespears! I collapsed it to 2ft, got the pole in the hole, barely, loaded while it was in the hole, shoved my arm back in the hole, line up and shot through his mouth. The slip tip toggled in his gut and I pulled him out after 1 hour. It went from “boy that fish looks tasty” to “damn we can’t let this fish got to waste!” That was by far the longest and hardest retrieval of any fish in my life, but it was well worth it and my PB sheephead on a polespear. He came out at right around 10-12lbs. We made the tiresome trek back to the launch point, with the squid boats illuminating the night, where we took some pics of our catch. What a hell of a Maiden voyage.

  • A big Thank You to Mike (Lavdr) and a Kayak Workshop

    Pool tested;


    regular side - 5min - no leaks
    flipped - 2min - maybe 1 cup of water leakage... which is really = to nothing.


    only prob is that it is def not a dry ride... the scupper holes are right at the seat so there is always 1" of water when I am on the yak, but I can just sit further back and its high and dry.


    The hatch is indented in the kayak and when flipped there is about 2" air space between the hatch and the water and also when force under water a vacum seal is created on the neopreme making an almost total seal.

  • Whites Point Land Slide San Pedro, CA

    Quote from ladvr

    Whites only produces for local divers for some reason. The sand spits needed some replenishment anyways.


    Through the eyes of a PV outsider;


    I assume this is because it is off the beaten path per say. I dive PV and I know from our boat trips that that spot is fish galor, but I'd rather have easy access by parking next to the cliff in North PV when shore diving.


    Plus White's point is where all that DDT crap is.

  • WTB a kayak Local. My budget is $250 and below

    Quote from LunkerBuster

    cheap small yaks are often poorly made. the entry brands like pelican all skimp on the amount of plastic and the rotos are notoriously uneven. if you can get a used OK, they make several models in that size, you will be happier than with a beater brand. without all the bells and whistles what you are paying for is the materials...


    Thanks for that info, I will take that into consideration.



    LAVDR: PM sent.