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SALTWATER
June 7 - 21, 2019
SALTWATER REPORTS:
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HALF MOON BAY cont.
inclement ocean conditions, but when
they did get located, the action was
fast and furious.
The boats fishing out of the Half
Moon Bay Sportfishing Center
reported great salmon action off the
San Mateo Coast north of Half Moon
Bay at Mussel Rock starting on May
24. The New Captain Pete, skippered
by Dennis Baxter, reported in with
14 salmon for 7 anglers, while the
Queen of Hearts, skippered by Bob
Ingles, checked in with 22 salmon for
11 anglers after trolling off the San
Mateo Coast on May 24.
Rockfish action has been great
out of the harbor also. The Riptide
returned to the dock with 90 rockfish
for 9 anglers on the same day,
according to Sherri Ingles of the Half
Moon Bay Sportfishing Center.
“There were boats scattered from
Double Point in Marin County to the
Pigeon Point in San Mateo County
on Friday when Brian Rooney on the
Hog Heavon found the school of fish
off of Mussel Rock,” said Captain
Dennis Baxter of the New Captain
Pete. “We made the circle and arrived
on the scene by noon in order to put
in 7 limits of salmon, with 2/3rds of
the salmon being commercial size
and loaded with anchovies in their
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bellies. The fish were
all up in the water
water fishing to shallower
column, and all of the
water fishing.,” said Jones.
fleet had limits.”
“We had a mixed group of
Baxter fought the
great people on the boat
weather uphill on
ranging from hard core
Saturday morning
fishermen to beginners.
to get to Mussel
They landed limits of
Rock, and he said,
rockfish and about 3/4
“We have a solid
limits of lingcod.”
line of anchovies
Monterey charter boats
all the way up the
reported solid rockfish
coastline, and there
action also. The 35
are humpbacked
anglers aboard the Star
whales feeding in
of Monterey out of Chris’
90 feet of water
Fishing Trips in Monterey
off of Mavericks.
returned with 8 lingcod
We bucked uphill
and limits (350) of rockfish
in conditions that
on Saturday, May 25. The
made me consider
20 anglers aboard the
turning around, but
Caroline came back with
we ended up with
2 lingcod and limits (200)
23 salmon for 15
rockfish the same day.
anglers with only
“The salmon fishing was
one of the fish less
decent for the anglers
than commercial-
who stayed out on the
grade. We had
These anglers went adventuring beyond the Golden Gate and came home with a water in the wind,” said
plenty of opportunities fresh salmon dinner on May 18.
Todd Fraser at Bayside
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for limits, but the
weather conditions
Saturday, May 25. “There
made it difficult to land
were some limits caught
the hook ups. The conditions look
MONTEREY BAY
trolling in 200-250 feet of water on
fantastic with one exception, and
the west side of the Soquel Hole. The
Rockfish and Lingcod
that is the water temperature is warm
salmon were biting on Watermelon
Action Great When Weather
from 57 to 59 degree. Hopefully this
Krippled Anchovies and red
Cooperates
northwest wind will cool down the
Krocodiles down near the bottom.”
water.”
SANTA CRUZ – The salmon fishing
“There were some nice halibut
There is more good news on the
has slowed on Monterey Bay, but
caught in Capitola, while the
salmon front with the
anglers targeting rockfish and lingcod
rockfish action was decent
arrival of the second
area finding excellent results along
near Natural Bridges.
batch of 265,000 salmon the Monterey County Coast. The
The weather has
from the Mokelumne
northwest wind has made getting
been up and down, so
River Fish Hatchery to
down the coast to Point Sur difficult
make sure you check
the acclimation pens in
lately.
the forecast,” he
the harbor on Saturday,
A bottomfish trip produced 40
emphasized.
May 25th. Captain Tom
rockfish and 4 lingcod for 4 anglers
Mattusch of the Huli Cat
on Friday, May
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said, “These fish are
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