24 June 26, 2020 VOL.39 • ISS. 14
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SALTWATER REPORTS
BERKELEY
Great Fishing On Tap For East
Bay Charter Boaters!
EAST BAY- “We’ve been getting plenty
of fish on all of our trips and some of our
trips have been extremely good,” reported
Captain Jonathan Smith of Happy Hooker/
Big numbers of halibut are holding in the central bay. This fish
was caught during a recent outing aboard the Happy Hooker.
Photo courtesy of HAPPY HOOKER SPORTFISHING, Berkeley.
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recently we had an absolutely epic day on
halibut even though we had to deal with
some wind.
Captain Quang on the Goldeneye 2000
has also been putting up some amazing
potluck scores with both stripers and
halibut hitting the deck.
On the salmon fishing
front, anglers fishing
aboard the New Easy
Rider with Captains Joe
and Joey Gallia have
been doing very well on
big bright ocean run kings
while trolling rigged bait.
On June 13, the New
Easy Rider’s 11 anglers
boated 17 salmon to 18
pounds. The next day
they scored 21 kings to
18 plus pounds for 12
anglers.
Shore anglers have
gotten some keeper
halibut while working both
swimbaits and still fishing
with cut bait. Pluggers
have landed some
schoolie size keeper
stripers from the Oakland/
Alameda shoreline.
BODEGA BAY
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the Sonoma Coast
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salmon bite along the
Sonoma coast went
ballistic as a huge
school of quality salmon
finally found the krill
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that was massed
up southwest of
the Bodega Bay
Harbor. The salmon
action had been
spotty up this point,
but Captain Rick
Powers of the New
Sea Angler found
the salmon earlier
in the week on one
of his combination
trips, and the
action continued
throughout the
week.
After loading
up with limits of
rockfish, several
ling cod, and limits
of salmon earlier in
the week, Powers
put together
another tremendous
combination trip on
Thursday, June 11,
with 16 anglers out
for 21 ling cod, limits
of quality rockfish,
and 14 salmon to 18
pounds.
He said, “Friday’s
trip was even better
with 18 limits of
salmon, 18 limits of
quality rockfish, and
several ling cod. The
salmon averaged from
12 to 14 pounds so
the grade is excellent.
This is the year of the
big salmon, and I am expecting some truly
huge fish over the summer months. They
are hot and hard to hold onto as they
are feeding on krill. Our loads have been
light, and people are really enjoying the
additional room. There were at least four
or five fishermen who are going home with
a limit of salmon, a limit of lings, and a
limit of rockfish. The salmon have been on
the surface between 30 and 50 feet in 240
feet of water.”
Captain and co-owner of the Reel
Magic, Merlin Kolb, also found the salmon
on Friday after searching high and low
before switching over to rockfish the
previous day. Kolb said, “The salmon are
in the krill which is only 15 minutes from
the harbor. We ended up with one fish shy
of limits, but we had the final fish on six
times coming off each time before we had
to call it a day. The water turned colder
at 54 degrees, and the salmon started to
bite.”
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Laura landed this big Golden Gate king salmon while trolling
aboard the New Easy Rider on June 6.
Photo courtesy of NEW EASY RIDER SPORTFISHING, Berkeley.
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Captain Chris Smith’s 58’ Pacific Dream
At Lawson’s Landing in Tomales Bay,
the 83-year old pier is in the process of
being dismantled, but they have rights to
rebuild the pier in the future. Since Marin
County did not update the health order to
include camping, they are cancelling all
camping reservations through June 29th.
- Dave Hurley
FISHERMAN’S WHARF
Striper and Halibut Bite Busts
Loose
SAN FRANCISCO – The party boats out
of Fisherman’s Wharf are finding success
both on salmon trolling adventures outside
of the Golden Gate and live bait trips
inside San Francisco Bay.
On June 12, the Bass Tub had a great
day of live bait fishing on the central bay.
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Salmon
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