Fish Sniffer On Demand Digital Edition Issue 3826 Dec 6-20 | Page 26

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Dec 6 - 20, 2019
VOL.38 • ISS. 26
SALTWATER
REPORTS
BERKELEY
Wide Open Crab & Rockfish Fishing Excites
Late Season Anglers
BERKELEY - After a spring and summer season that
featured outstanding halibut and salmon action the days are
now getting shorter, the season is winding down and charter
boats have taken to targeting crabs, rockfish and lingcod.
Crabbing always creates excitement for anglers, but this year
the buzz has been even more intense than normal with huge
numbers of huge crabs being rounded up daily.
“We are headed in now with full limits of big Dungeness
crabs and rockfish for 34 anglers. The weather was
outstanding today. We saw some very large rockfish and
a solid showing of lings,” reported Happy Hooker Skipper
Crabbing beyond the Golden Gate has been outstanding this fall. These big crabs were boated during a November 15
adventure.
Photo courtesy of HAPPY HOOKER SPORTFISHING, Berkeley.
Jonathan Smith.
Captain James Smith of the California Dawn is
enjoying the same type of wide open action. A typical
trip on the California Dawn right now produces full
limits of crab and rockfish along with the occasional
lingcod.
Captain Quang Vo is also putting his clients on lights
out combo action, targeting deep water for lings and
rocks before pulling up limits of crabs on the way back
to Berkeley.
crab and quality rockfish found south at Point Reyes.
He said, “The rockfish bite has been wide-open,
but we haven’t really been targeting the lings with
the swell over the past few days. Wednesday’s
weather was rough, and we pulled limits of crab for
32 anglers before returning to the docks early. With
the commercial crab season on hold, we are filling up
quickly.”
“I will be out with Rick and Captain Joel Sinkay
next Wednesday, and being around a Sinkay always
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BODEGA BAY
Sonoma Coast
Charter Boaters
Bag Limits of
Rockfish and
Crabs
Big vermilion rockfish have been cooperating with Golden Gate
anglers traveling to the Farallon Islands. This handsome fish was
landed on November 23.
Photo courtesy of HAPPY HOOKER SPORTFISHING, Berkeley.
BERKELEY -
Captain Rick Powers
of Bodega Bay Sport
Fishing reported
continued great
rockfishing, and he
was tied up back at
the docks on his latest
trip by 12:30 p.m. with
limits of big Dungeness
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