Headed out to the wall at 1:20pm hoping to work the minus tide at 1:30pm with my poke-pole, but the swells were a little too big for my tastes. After 30 minutes of pokin, I just wasn't feelin it. Luckily I'd brought along my conventional gear as a back-up, so I set up near a small rocky point on the wall.
Water was murky, so I decided against throwing plastics and threw out some shrimp on a dropper loop. Things started out slow, with a few bites here and there, but then a flurry of action came at around 2:30pm. I hooked up with 2 blacks to 11", 2 kelp greenling to 15", and 1 pileperch taping out at 14". Also caught a big starfish and a rock crab for good measure, heh. Things slowed down by 4pm, so I filleted the 15" greenling and headed home. Besides the iffy swells, the weather couldn't have been better for Humboldt in February: clear skies, little wind, and t-shirt temps. It was a great day to go out and relax on the rocks.