It was nice and calm on Wed, so i went out to my paradise spot. I decided to leave the fish alone and explore a group of rock another 50 yards out.
What i found was unreal. Not only lots of fish but a area that was loaded with huge abalone. I am sure that this area was a untouched never hunted before abalone bed.
It wsa a slot with a straight rock wall into an exposed very big rock on one side with a sloping down and a dropping off the last 10' straight down on the other side. the bottom was about 25' deep and it was about 25 yrds long comming to a wall that rose 15' from the bottom dropping off to deep water on the other side.
There was lots of fish in and around this slot as well as being covered in big abs all the way up the rock wall almost to the surface. I shot 9 blues all around 15" and one 17" greenling and 4 big stripped perch. I stopped looking for lings and decided to get my abs. The first one i picked was to big to fit in my ab bag, one of those red bags. Since i dont use a tube and just strap everything i need onto a second weight belt, i had no way of getting this ab home except to carry it. I put it down on a ledge a few feet under the surface and picked a couple of smaller abs that would fit in my bag. I then went and got the bigger one. The big ab was 9 1/2 the smaller ones that i could get into my bag where just under 9. And these all where really deep heavy abalone. Just huge.
I am going to buy a bigger catch bag and go back and get the bigger abs that i left alone.
Always explore you never know what you are going to find.
What i found was unreal. Not only lots of fish but a area that was loaded with huge abalone. I am sure that this area was a untouched never hunted before abalone bed.
It wsa a slot with a straight rock wall into an exposed very big rock on one side with a sloping down and a dropping off the last 10' straight down on the other side. the bottom was about 25' deep and it was about 25 yrds long comming to a wall that rose 15' from the bottom dropping off to deep water on the other side.
There was lots of fish in and around this slot as well as being covered in big abs all the way up the rock wall almost to the surface. I shot 9 blues all around 15" and one 17" greenling and 4 big stripped perch. I stopped looking for lings and decided to get my abs. The first one i picked was to big to fit in my ab bag, one of those red bags. Since i dont use a tube and just strap everything i need onto a second weight belt, i had no way of getting this ab home except to carry it. I put it down on a ledge a few feet under the surface and picked a couple of smaller abs that would fit in my bag. I then went and got the bigger one. The big ab was 9 1/2 the smaller ones that i could get into my bag where just under 9. And these all where really deep heavy abalone. Just huge.
I am going to buy a bigger catch bag and go back and get the bigger abs that i left alone.
Always explore you never know what you are going to find.