Personal Best Speared Fish by jimrussell | Jul 30, 2014 | Cuda, Fishing, Saltwater FishingMy good buddy Dave took me to go hunt for halibut at a new area for the first time and it was absolutely beautiful!! After an hour or so of diving Dave shoots a halibut and I am starting to get nervous because I have just seen sand, and bait, and sand, and crabs, and...
BigJim’s 2014 Summer Vacation by jimrussell | Jul 12, 2014 | Cuda, Fishing, JK Team Posts, Saltwater FishingTook a week off work to spend time with my parents who were visiting from New Orleans. Did a little bit of everything: shorediving looking for halibut, kayak diving off the Cruise12 for Cabezon, fishing with my Dad off a sailboat for Lingcod, fishing with my Dad and...
Pre-Father’s Day Fun and a Personal Best! by jimrussell | Jul 4, 2014 | Fishing, JK Team Posts, Saltwater FishingDave Grigsby from Kayak Connection called me on Friday and said my new all black Jackson Kayak Cruise12 had just arrived in his Moss Landing shop! Ran down after work and picked up the sleek sexy stealth yak, got her home and set up my FishFinder and went to bed early...
Missed Shots and a Hail Mary by jimrussell | Jun 25, 2014 | Fishing, Saltwater FishingTook my young buddy Jesse out diving yesterday! Great guy and he really needed some water therapy, so I decided to do my best to get him on a solid fish. Found a NICE lingcod for him down in a crack at 36 feet. Had him drop down while I lit it up with the dive...
Exploring paid off! by jimrussell | Jun 16, 2014 | Cuda, Fishing, Saltwater FishingWife gave me the green light to go dive with my buddy Brent on Sunday AM as long as I was home by 2pm to spend the afternoon with my daughters. Brent had some stuff come up with his wife’s family so he couldn’t make it, but I still paddled out at first...
Annual Mendocino Family Camping Trip by jimrussell | Jun 9, 2014 | Fishing, Saltwater FishingHeaded up to Schooner’s Landing RV Park and Campground on the Albion River for our annual family camping trip. Had 4 families (19 people total) this year and I was in charge of providing a fish dinner for all on Saturday so had my “work” cut out for...
My First Ten Inch Abalone by jimrussell | Jun 2, 2014 | Cuda, Fishing, Fishing Tournament, Saltwater FishingHad a plan in mind all year of where I wanted to paddle to and explore the day before the 8th Annual Gimme Shelter Kayak Fishing Tourney. This was my 5th year in a row up at Shelter Cove so have been trying to explore new territory each time I’m up there looking...
Winter Diving in Monterey County by jimrussell | May 25, 2014 | Cuda, Fishing, Saltwater FishingWinter time can be a great time for diving off the North coast of California. Big winter storms and swells often knock out the over grown summer kelp and the visibility can be spectacular. If you time your dive right and get out in between storms, you will frequently...
Father Daughter Fishing Day by jimrussell | May 21, 2014 | Cuda, Fishing, JK Team Posts, Saltwater FishingHatched a plan with my eight year old daughter Valentina to go out fishing on the kayak together. She was super excited and so was I!! Got her up bright and early and headed down to the beach and paddled out on the Cuda14 into calm seas. Right off the bat she hooked...
Blasting Blues by jimrussell | Apr 29, 2014 | Fishing, Saltwater Fishing, VideoOcean was super flat so my buddy Joe and I took advantage to go hunt and explore in shallower in an area where usually it is too rough and surgy… I didn’t find any monsters, but the Blue Rockfish were thick and chunky so I helped myself. One of the Blues was a...
Seafood Combo! by jimrussell | Apr 25, 2014 | Fishing, Saltwater FishingPaddled out into a pretty strong headwind at first light in a brand new shiny, sexy Cruise12 that Jackson Kayak Team Member Sean Morley loaned me. Stoked that I got the pleasure and honor of demoing the beautiful boat and getting her salty and bloody for the first...
BigJim’s Birthday Dive by jimrussell | Apr 5, 2014 | Cuda, Fishing, Saltwater FishingI hate working on my birthday, and try to avoid it at all costs. Last year I did mutiple dives before and after my actual birthday, and shot my PB cabezon on the actual day: http://doty.norcalkayakanglers.com/catches/381 This year I headed out with Nathan, Joe and...
