SALTWATER
30 Aug . 18 - Sept . 1 , 2017 VOL . 36 • ISS . 18
SALTWATER REPORTS :
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HALF MOON BAY
Salmon Move North Within Easy Reach of Harbor
EL GRANADA - After an amazing run of salmon southwest of the harbor off of the Deep Reef , the salmon schools have moved up off of the Pacifica coastline , and boats from
Halibut action has been awesome aboard the Bass Tub . These beautiful fish were landed during a late July live bait adventure .
Photo courtesy of BASS TUB SPORTFISHING , San Francisco . Berkeley .
Pillar Point and San Francisco Bay are meeting off of Pedro Point for up to limits of salmon .
The Farallons have been outstanding for rockfish and lingcod , and the islands are only an 18 mile run from Pillar Point . The flat calm weather has led to excellent ocean conditions during the past week .
Sherri Ingles of Half Moon Bay Sport Fishing reported outstanding action for salmon north of the harbor , stating , “ If you can hang onto your fish , you will come home with a limit . Rockfishing remains excellent with the access to deeper water , and the ocean has been flat calm for the past week .”
On Sunday , August 6th , both Captain Dennis Baxter of the New Captain Pete and Tom Mattusch of the Huli Cat went north to the Pedro Point area for near-limits of salmon with plenty of opportunities for two fish per customer .
Baxter said , “ We came up a few fish short of 16 limits with 26 salmon working from Egg Rock north to Mussel Rock , and the overall bite was slower today as the salmon have gone deeper with the water temperature rising to 60 degrees . The fish are cookie-cutters in the 5 to 8-pound range , but there is an occasional jackpot fish up in the 20-pound range .”
A few white sea bass are also showing up with the market-grade squid that has been accumulating . There aren ’ t enough sea bass to say that the bite is even close to being hot , but the fish are starting to show up . There are anchovies mixed in with the krill , and the commercial squid boats are focusing on anchovies since there isn ’ t enough mass of squid to justify the drags .
The warm water has led to private boats running offshore for albacore , and Mike Velasquez with Captain Tom Joseph on the Serra Bella went 75 miles
to score some albacore and a bluefin tuna . A school of bluefin tuna was observed offshore , but the anglers on the Sea Angel decided to leave them alone since they were in the 12- to 14-pound range .
- Dave Hurley
MONTEREY BAY
Boaters Battle Lingcod And Rockfish Off Point Sur , Point Lopez
MOSS LANDING – Anglers fishing aboard the Kahuna have experienced top-notch rockfish and lingcod action off the Big Sur Coast with the arrival of calm seas .
On Saturday , August 5 , the 24 anglers aboard the Kahuna landed 26 lingcod , 1 ocean whitefish , 48 vermilion rockfish , 124 rockfish , 32 rockfish and 20 canary rockfish , reported Carol Jones of Kahuna Sportfishing .
On the day before , 16 anglers landed limits of rockfish including 5 cabezon to 10 Pounds and 20 lingcod .
This lady angler was all smiles after boating this quality Marin Coast lingcod aboard the Happy Hooker on July 26 .
Photo courtesy of HAPPY HOOKER SPORTFISHING , Berkeley .
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