Captain
Jim Smith went outside the
Gate on Thursday 7-2
for a trip down the south
side for limits of rockfish,
two lings, a 12-pound
cabezon landed by Chuck
Carletong of Vacaville, 18
stripers to 16-pounds and a
lonely halibut. He said the
bass are scattered up along
the beaches from the
Pacifica Pier to Mori's
Point, but he witnessed
several fish being taken out
of the surf by shore
anglers. One fishermen went
down to the beach this
morning to walk his dogs at
6:30 a.m., and after
watching hookups throughout
the beach, he took the dogs
home in a hurry and got in
on the action. Smith plans
on hitting the beach hard on
Friday, and he will head
outside on the 4th of July
if there are enough
passengers. Sunday is
filled, but there is room on
Saturday.
The
weather is flat calm and the
halibut fishing good and the
rockfish is excellent
offshore at the Farallon
Islands. Captain Jim Smith
of the Happy Hooker went
outside the Gate with 33
anglers on Wednesday July
1st, and he found 21
halibut with several in the
mid-20s range on the spots
along the coast. He was
disappointed in not reaching
a fish a rod, but the fish
that were landed were all of
an excellent quality. He is
aware of some bass hanging
around the beaches as is
looking forward to getting a
shot at them. He has lots of
room on board over the next
couple of days.
The Captain Hook went to the
Farallons today for 20
limits of rockfish to go
with 3 lings to 12-pounds
and a bonus half-dozen
halibut to 10-pounds on the
way home.
We are seeing flat, foggy
cool weather along the
coast. Around the Bays there
is a transition zone of
breeze off the fog and temps
in the 70s and 80s and
inland the winds are light
and the temps are pushing
into the 90s. The coastal
weather buoys are reporting
light winds under 5 knots
over a 3 to 4 foot swell.
The forecast calls for
nearly dead calm weather
through Monday with light
winds and fog coast side. If
you are looking to get your
kids out and not risk
seasickness this is your
window of opportunity and a
great time to get out for
some white meat.
The
weather was hot inland and
seas were a tad breezy but
overall good conditions for
party boats chasing rockfish
offshore. Emeryville Sport
Fishing had three boats out
at the Farallons on
Sunday 6-28 for a total
of 72 limits of rockfish and
25 lings to 14-pounds. The
ling counts appear to be
inching up there, as they
boated 15 lings to 20-pounds
yesterday to go with a few
fish shy of 112 rockfish
limits. The ESC has lots of
room all week and will be
targeting both rockfish
lings and halibut on their
coastal trips. School is out
and spots do go fast this
time of year.
Sheryl Jimno at the Rusty
Hook in Pacifica said the
ocean had calmed down
immeasurable in the past
couple of days, culminating
in beautiful weather today.
Beach striper fishing is
still very good with hair
raisers or top water lures,
but bait is also working
throughout the local
beaches. Judging from the
number of blood worms sold
in the past week, the perch
bite has improved.
Crabbing is still good from
the end of the pier, but the
season ends on Tuesday.
We
here at USAFishing
strongly support fishery
conservation,
unfortunately we can't
say the same of most
California "sport" anglers. We
are at a crossroads and
unless anglers support
conservation groups
(that our currently
waging a losing battle
against the multi-million $
water lobby) we will
lose every key fishery
that is connected to the
delta. If you think that
these "water issues"
won't affect your
favorite fishery you are
likely wrong. The
effects will be
widespread and include
the continued closure of
California and Oregon
saltwater salmon
fisheries.
The state water projects
are being consolidated
and the governor is
looking to toss
the only Bay-Delta
protections we have and
ship water from Shasta
and Oroville directly to
LA swimming pools and
subsidized cotton
farmers in Westland's.
If these water projects
go through you can kiss
goodbye (as in forever)
what is left of our
salmon runs, and our
striper and sturgeon
fisheries will continue
to decline. We don't
have an ocean salmon
season this year or last
because of too much
water being pumped from
the delta. If these
water projects get
passed we will have none
in the future. At no
time in the past has it
been so critical that
anglers understand
these issues and support
the work that the
California Sportfishing
Protection Alliance
is doing.
Bottom line..... It's
time to get off your
butt and support the CSPA or
in a few short years there
will be NO salmon, striper
and sturgeon fisheries and
they won't ever recover.
No group has done more over
the past two decades to
protect fisheries than CSPA.
In the past two months
USAFishing readers have
raised nearly $10,000 for
CSPA but much much more
is needed. Please visit
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more about all the great
work they are doing.
Become part of the
solution and support the
California Sportfishing
Protection Alliance
today!
Mike Aughney
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