Fish Sniffer On Demand Digital Edition 3817 August 2- 16 2019 | Page 26

24 Aug 2 - 16, 2019 VOL.38 • ISS. 17 SALTWATER REPORTS BERKELEY Incredible Fishing On Tap For East Bay Saltwater Enthusiasts EAST BAY- “The live bait potluck fishing continues to be outstanding,” reported Captain Jonathan Smith of Happy Hooker Sportfishing. “Today we had an enjoyable day in the central bay. For 19 anglers on board we landed 23 halibut and full limits of striped bass.” “Yesterday we also fished the central bay, our 22 anglers landed limits of striped bass and a fish per rod on halibut up to 20 pounds,” said Smith. Captain Chris Smith of the Pacific Dream has been scoring well on stripers and halibut inside the bay, but he’s started mixing in some bottomfish trips too. “We hit the Farallons yesterday and found large lings and fat sacks of rockfish for all the anglers aboard. We ended up three lingcod short of full limits for our 19 anglers,” said Chris. Captain Quang of the Goldeneye 2000 is focused on live bait potluck fishing inside the bay and is rounding up lots of halibut and bass. On his most recent trip, Quang’s 27 anglers landed 92 total keeper fish. Shifting gears, salmon fishing beyond the Golden Gate is absolutely red hot. For anglers fishing aboard the New Easy Riders limits have been the rule for the past two weeks with fish ranging up to 24 pounds. When trolling near the beaches a few big stripers have shown in the catches. That’s a pretty exciting bonus! Captain Hayden Mullins of Dragon Sportfishing has now started targeting salmon out of the Emeryville Marina and his clients have been boating consistent limits. Some days Hayden has had full limits in the box by 9 in the morning. These anglers hit the waters of San Francisco Bay this summer with Captain Joe Gamez and caught a bunch of impressive sevengill sharks. Photo courtesy of GOLDEN STATE SPORTFISHING, Tracy. put together an amazing combination trip on Thursday, July 18th with 23 limits of salmon to 20 pounds, 23 Coast Salmon Bite limits of quality rockfish composed of Busts Loose coppers, vermilions, browns, gophers, BODEGA BAY china cod, and quillbacks along with – The stage has 3 ling cod to 10 pounds. The rockfish been set for salmon came south off of Point Reyes. action, and after Powers said, “I made a prediction a several weeks of week ago when this hard northwest a hard northwest stops, the salmon were going to go blow, the ocean on the bite, and it was correct as we finally calmed down must have hooked 70 fish to land the off of the Sonoma 46 for limits.” coastline during the Jeff Caramella of Fish On Charters 3rd week of July. continues to find limits of salmon Captain Rick off the Sonoma County Coast. For Powers of Bodega example, Brian and Carol caught Bay Sport Fishing easy limits of quality salmon on day #1 of their 3 day New Easy Rider Sportfishing charter. “We had to Departures from Berkeley Marina run 6 miles south of point Reyes to find the fish, but couldn’t 3712 keep 4 lines in the water,” he said. Captain Merlin Kolb of Mike BODEGA BAY Sonoma Aughney’s Reel Magic, after finding only one king before heading for rockfish on Wednesday, found much better action on Thursday and Friday for limits of salmon to 19 pounds fishing south southwest of Bodega Head in 220 feet of water with the fish higher in the water column between 30 and 80 feet. Private boater Dr. James Hayes of Acampo found excellent action for salmon off of Elephant Rock on Saturday with limits of salmon to 20 pounds trolling anchovies behind flashers at depths to 80 feet.” The salmon action should last throughout August as the schools are just now starting to move into the shorelines in their migration towards the Golden Gate and into the Sacramento River. With the hot bite, reservations in both the campgrounds and on the party boats is advised as traffic at the launch ramp is expected to be very high, particularly on weekends. - Dave Hurley N ow B ookiNg SALMoN, HALiBUT, BASS LiVE BAiT TRiPS Rock & Ling Cod and Sturgeon Reservations & Information (707)422-2050 captainjgallia@neweasyrider.com Big halibut like this impressive fish have been common for anglers fishing the waters of San Francisco Bay aboard the Pacific Dream. This hefty fish went into the box during a late June trip. Photo courtesy of PACIFIC DREAM SPORTFISHING, Berkeley. www.neweasyrider.com HEAVY DUTY SPLIT RING WELDED RING 3X MUSTAD HOOK REAL FISH IMAGE PRINT FOR MORE INFO VISIT: or call: WWW.AHIUSA.COM 1-866-264-1562 WIRED THROUGH RIGGING follow us CHIP & PEEL RESISTANT UV COATED This massive S.F. Bay halibut was caught aboard the Goldeneye 2000 on July 2. Anglers fishing aboard the boat have been averaging 2 halibut per rod in recent days. Photo courtesy of GOLDENEYE 2000 SPORTFISHING, Berkeley