Any fishing spots in Carpenteria

[outback]

I am heading to carpenteria this next weekend for a campout.  Is there any fishing off carpenteria state beach park.  I checked Google Earth and the kelp field just north/west of there seems huge.  Is it productive for bass, rockfish, halibut, or cuda?  How has the wind been up there?   Thanks guys.

[Fuzzy]

Yes, Carp. reef is productive for all you mentioned.  Very windy last Friday, calm and like glass this AM 10/13.  If surf is up it can take good timing to get out.  Let us know how you do.

[wolfman]

One mile up the road is Padaro (Santa Claus) Lane.  From there you can paddle to Carp Reef, and there's another reef with kelp about one mile straight off the west end of  the beach as well as t-sharls within 1/2 mile of the beach.  Crowds are gone now that summer is over.  Good luck. 

[outback]

Thanks guys,  Wolfman how far out is the reef from the beach, and will I need electronics to locate it.  Are the Ts typically between the kelp and the beach?  Any more insight would be great. 
Hope the wind drops out by next weekend; thought about paddling out of Leo this weekend probably would have beached it on Santa Cruz Island the way the wind kicked up. 

[Spike]

OB, you should get sonar eventually.  Those reefs might show some kelp but again, they might not.  It's not a fishfinder, it's a structure locater that gives you a better idea of the landscape and more time to fish. It sees bait too.

Cheap sonar works for all our coastal needs.

The sharks are pretty much everywhere.  They congregate on the bite, swim hard and feed on baitfish so follow the reports.  I stay a ways off the kelp but I've hooked a lot of threshers tight to it.  Give yourself some room and try everything.  That's live bait and trolling jigs.  Eric got them to chew frozen squid in the Bu last week.  Don't gaff it and good luck.

Whack `em.

[Falcon]

Fished the Carp reef on Sunday afternoon with Anacapa...there are some great launch areas around Linden Ave, the estuary and the reef was an easy paddle out probably 1/2 mile....that is one big reef and there are some super shallow spots where you can see right down to the bottom.  We fished the outside edges on the north side of the estuary.  Some nice sandies came up and there was tons of bait all around.   I fished the bait and Bob worked the plastics pretty well.   Lots of structure around so you really have to watch out for snags.   But the convenience is nice and the easy launch isnt too bad either.  Just watch out for the occasional riff-raff crusing around...