Fish Sniffer On Demand Digital Edition Issue 3705 Feb 16- Mar 2, 2018 | Page 30
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Feb 16 - Mar 2, 2018
SALTWATER
VOL.37 • ISS. 05
SALTWATER REPORTS
BERKELEY
Fishing Scene Quiet Save For
Occasional Sturgeon
BERKELEY- With rockfish, lingcod
and salmon off limits at this time, charter
boats are dormant in East Bay ports as
they await the kick off of spring halibut
fishing. Private boaters have been able to
tempt a few sturgeon down at the extreme
southern end of the South Bay, but
hooking up on any given day is far from a
slam dunk.
There was a herring spawn off Oyster
Point a couple weeks ago and that did
sparks some sturgeon action, but when
the herring disappeared so did the
sturgeon.
Anglers fishing from the Dumbarton
Bridge to the south end of the bay have
been hooking a few fish, mainly on grass
and ghost shrimp.
A few perch have been picked up by
bank anglers working between Berkeley
and San Leandro, but the action hasn’t
become consistent yet. Shrimp baits are
the best option for anglers interested in
perch.
The arrival of spawning perch during the
second half of February generally signals
that spring striper fishing is about to get
going.
Reports of stripers being caught have
been few and far between so far.
BODEGA BAY
Shoreline Anglers Pick Up
Perch, Crabs
BODEGA BAY - During the winter
months before the rockfish and salmon
seasons are
anticipated to open
in April, most of the
fishing action out of
the Sonoma coast
out of Bodega Bay
will occur from the
shorelines.
Captain Rick
Powers of Bodega
Bay Sport Fishing
said, “We are
concentrating on
boat maintenance
right now, and we
have pulled our crab
gear. I still want to
try for Humboldt
squid as the
conditions look right
once again. I know
of one commercial
sablefish boat
that picked up a
50-pound Humboldt
out of Fort Bragg,
and I think there
are some Humboldt
squid out there. The
black cod anglers
are reporting fish
pulled off of their
hooks with beak
marks, and we just
need the weather
conditions and
enough interest to
make a run.”
Out of Lawson’s
Landing in Dillon
Beach, Willie
Vogler said, “I
guess halibut like
calm, 75 degree
weather, as Kelly
Goligowski landed
a 14-pound halibut
on live bait while
drifting the channel
near Hog Island.
Unfortunately, the
crab don’t seem
to care about
the weather,
and Dungeness
crabbing remains
slow in the bay but
it better out in the
Outer Bay.”
“The high
catches have been
around 8 crab, and
the red rock crabs
are making up the
vast majority of the This angler got a surprise while soaking bait for sturgeon in
Suisun Bay on January 27 when this husky flounder came
crab dinners. The
knocking.
surfperch slowed
Photo courtesy of HAPPY HOOKER SPORTFISHING, Martinez.
down with the big
swell, but it should
be picking up again
his first attempting at finding petrale sole in
this week with the moderate swell forecast.
deep water.
There are lots of herring swimming in
He said, “We went out on our first trip last
and out of the bay, but I have yet to see
Monday, and we picked up some petrale
someone hook into something interesting,”
sole along with plenty of sand dabs fishing
he said.
in an average of 420 feet of water south of
Lawson’s is taking camping reservations
the harbor from Pescadero to Davenport.
up to 16 weeks in advance.
Jim Gilleti of Half Moon Bay landed the
- Dave Hurley
first petrale in 460 feet of water on an Ahi
Promar Sand Dab rig in 460 feet of water
off of Ano Nuevo while Darrell Ticehurst
of Atherton landed three petrale sole and
plenty of sand dabs.”
HALF MOON BAY
The Huli Cat continues to operate sand
Sanddabs & Petrale Sole Offer dab/crab combination trips until the rockfish
Top Fare Until Salmon Season opener, and he will run the deepwater
trips for petrale sole when the weather
Begins
conditions allow.
EL GRANADA - The long stretch between
The Queen of Hearts and the Riptide out
the end of the 2017 rockfish season and
of the Half Moon Bay Sportfishing Center
the opening of the 2018 ocean salmon and
will be running whale watching and nature
rockfish season has passed its first month,
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