Fish Sniffer On Demand Digital Edition Issue 3904 Feb 1-14 | Page 26
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Jan 31 - Feb 14, 2020
VOL.38 • ISS. 25
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BERKELEY - The rockfish and lingcod
season ended with a bang. Heavy sacks
and jumbo crabs were the norm for East
Bay charter anglers.
“We offered crab and rockfish combo
trips until the bottomfish season ended,”
said Capt. Chris Smith of the Pacific
Dream.
These days both Chris Smith and his
son, Captain Jonathan Smith of Happy
Hooker Sportfishing are preparing to
relocate the Martinez Marina where they
will hunt sturgeon for the remainder of the
winter and into early spring.
There have been a handful of sturgeon
caught in the South Bay, but there is really
nothing solid to report. For a shot at a
bite and possibly a fish soak mud shrimp,
ghost shrimp, pile worms and herring
fillets along the edges of major channels.
Perch haven’t arrived yet, but shiner
perch should begin showing along the
East Bay shoreline at some point during
the month of February. Pile worms,
prawns and grass shrimp are the top
baits.
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Rockfish Season Ends with
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BODEGA BAY - Captain Rick Powers
of Bodega Bay Sport Fishing finished
up the rockfish season with a flourish
with 23 limits of bottom-dwelling
rockfish and 23 crab.
He said, “We have been batting
1000 percent on the rockfish/crab
combination trips with limits on every
trip since the crab opener. That’s
phenomenal. The swell backed off, and
there were more lings on the boat as
well.”
“This was the best crab season that
I have ever seen, and we had a great
salmon and rockfish season. Crab-only
trips along with whale watching will fill
the winter months until the salmon and
rockfish seasons are expected to open
in April.,” said Powers.
The crab counts are holding up
for recreational boaters despite
the commercial pressure since the
December 15th commercial opener,
but the end of rockfish season on
December 31st results in party boats
running the occasional crab-only or
crab/sand dab combination trip.
Powers was out on January 3r with
13 anglers on a crab-only on the New
Sea Angler, and they were back at the
docks within an hour with limits of crab
to 3 pounds as the pots remain loaded.
He will be running crab-only trips
depending upon weather conditions and
interest.
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This lingcod came aboard the Huli Cat during
a December 28 central coast crab and rockfish
combo trip.
Photo courtesy of HULI CAT SPORTFISHING, Half
Moon Bay.