FORT BRAGG


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The Richmond Hunting Club is a not for profit sportsmen organization. The club has four clubhouses and 20,000 acres of some of the finest upland game and waterfowl  property in the Princeton / Colusa / Williams triangle. Annual family memberships start at less that $500. per season, water blinds for just $1500. For more information about the "RHC" please contact us at (707)-451-1690. For waterfowl blind info contact Dennis Sanders at 530 458-5044

September 05, 2008    Headlines

Early Rockfish Closure
Shelter Cove Pacific Butts

With the rockfish season now closed we are just waiting on the tuna to arrive. Keep your fingers crossed but until then fishing options here are limited at best. Here on Friday 9-5 the ocean has laid out like a mill pond and the forecast calls for great weather this weekend. Currently we are seeing just 4 knots at the Bodega Buoy, 7 knots at the SF buoy and west winds of 6 knots at Monterey with a 4 to 6 foot swell and an average period of 14 seconds. The forecast for Saturday and Sunday calls for west winds under 10 knots making for some ideal fishing weather. Hopefully the tuna show up close to Ft Bragg soon.

Shelter Cove:

Captain Trent Slate is limited to Pacific halibut only trips for the remainder of the season due to the early closure of the rockfish season north of Point Arena. He has had tremendous success this year and is finding a clientele interested in taking the chance for the big fish - I still think the odds of landing a fish are better than sturgeon fishing he had trips throughout the weekend, but he will only take trips out when the weather is good enough to make it up to Punta Gorda. The weather has been blowing for a few days this week, so he may or may not be out there today. We will update when we get the latest information. Shelter Cove Sportfishing 707 307-8582

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Vern Goehring, Manager of the California Fisheries Coalition


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