Went out ith Calvin to Half Moon Bay, CA to do kayak fishing for rock cod on 8/7/2017. Super last minute stuff, we noticed it was supposed to be extremely calm the night before, like only 1 ft @ 8s or something with <5 knots of wind.
Overall, was a very slow day. Only hooked into 1 cabezon & 1 ling cod, and maaaaybe one other bite. We fished for a good 2 hours too, how weird.
Video of the trip is up here:
Continue reading Kayak Fishing Half Moon Bay – August 2017
I’m back! I had the July 4th week off, and went fishing a bunch! You’d think I’d use that time to wisely catch up on all the videos I haven’t gotten around to editing yet buuuuut… no I went fishing a ton instead! Many trips to the Half Moon Bay pier to fish for rock cod were made 😀 Many successful trips to the HMB Pier for rock cod in fact!
That’s a 2+lb grassy rock cod off the Half Moon Bay pier by Andrew yo! Video’s up too, you can check it out on YouTube (if you haven’t already seen it) or view it below:
Continue reading Half Moon Bay Pier Fishing for Rock Cod with Trout Poles!
Took a coworker out to do some proper fishing – poke poling! …in winter. It was cold. We did okay though! Caught a few crabs, eels, and small grassy cod!
We fished the low tide on 12/11/2016:
It peaked out at -0.7ft around 2:29PM. We fished from maybe 1pm – 4pm, when we started scurrying back to get off the rocks before it got dark! (Sunset was around 4:30pm iirc)
Tackle for the day:
First catch of the day was definitely troublesome:
I swear an eel that small shouldn’t have been able to put up such a good fight… If you’re looking for some tips & advice on poke poling/pocket fishing I recommend watching the whole video! Scattered throughout are my comments about some of the finer points of poke poling that I don’t see discussed often.
We eventually got the eel out btw:
Continue reading HMB Poke Poling for Eels & Rock Cod!
Its been almost a year Dennis, where have you been?! Why are you back?! Well, besides to give a fishing report to go with the Santa Cruz fishing trip, I often give away some of my catch and ask people to send me pictures of their food. Recently got a pretty photogenic dinner picture and well… I mean how could I NOT blog to post them somewhere:
I mean, it’d be a crime to not post such tasty looking food! So I guess that means I should also like…blog. Properly ‘n all. I’ve got some gifs from a few of my recent trips, so I guess we’ll go with those. Santa Cruz & Capitola boat fishing report coming right up!
Oh my, click here to find out what we hooked into! Continue reading GUESS WHO’S BACK oh and also a fishing report for Santa Cruz/Capitola
Finally getting around to pushing through another update! This one was supposed to be about salmon, but we couldn’t find any 7/12, and reports up & down the coast were similar. So we swapped to jigging up some live anchovies & doing some rock cod fishing!
Continue reading New Captain Pete – Salmon in the Streets, Cod in the Sheets
Its been…well months hasn’t it? I really got side lined with a bunch of trips, uptick in work, etc etc. But after much haranguing, I’m finally back & trying to work through everything! I’m 7-8 trips behind…so bear with me as I push them out. There’s all sorts of things from salmon, to perch, to rock cod & even some night crabbing! May start with the more recent trips & work my way back. We’ll see!
Anyhow, this post will be around our fishing trip to Capitola on 8/16. The video of it is up: Continue reading Capitola Skiff Fishing – Fun With Friends
Videos been out awhile now:
I managed to finish editing it, but had no time to post :[ Been a looong busy last 2 weeks. Went to Texas for a work conference, came back & it was a week of meetings for our offsite… Hoo boy. I was planning on going out for horseneck clams (looks like geoducks), but then we found out we had the week wrong. So I’ll be up in Lawson’s Landing next Saturday!
Getting back into the swing of things though, lets go back & cover what happened in Santa Cruz!
This ‘ere toad was the highlight of the day. Caught him in a small 4-5″ swim Continue reading Santa Cruz Rock Cod – Rumors of A 5 Mile Reef
Bit delayed by now, but my work weeks keep getting craaazier! I got a north jetty report & a cute harbor seal story to go along with it… But that’ll have to wait!
So I went out to the Pacifica Pier to hang out with my dear of dad, and check up on how crabbing was out there. First sign of life was around halfway down the pier:
Didn’t see any other fish pulled up. Decent amount of people casting out hi-los and even one throwing a large kastmaster! No luck with it while I was there.
Around 3/4 of the way down we ran into the first person with crab. Continue reading Pacifica Pier – Crab & Perch Report
Yoyoyo, what up everyone? Today’s been a crazy day! We hit 10,000 views on a single video today, and landed a pay out from google! One step closer to ensuring the domain name & site hosting are paid for!
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Getting into the swing of reporting, was out on the Ankeny Street again last Friday, 4/17/2015, out of Pillar Point Harbor in Half Moon Bay, CA.
Bein’ a young’un I’ve never had the chance to fish for rock cod so early in the year before! Exciting times. I assume this means the conservation efforts have been working well & the fishery has recovered? Promising to note that the ling limit has now been increased from 2 to 3!
Somewhat worried that there’s now a 5 black rock cod limit per person/bag though. Wonder if those have been getting slammed too hard in the past few years? If anyone has reasons, I’d love to hear them! Just curious m’self :]
Anyhow, the forecast was for somewhat large swells, but not too much wind. Looked nice in the harbor when I arrived around 7!
So I got home late Thursday night. Started tying rigs late, and wound up pulling an all nighter… But I made some awesome looking jigs!
Continue reading Half Moon Bay – First Rock Cod Fishing Trip of 2015~!
You might say “well that ain’t a big salmon, that ain’t big at all Dennis”, and to that I’d say, takes a big man to catch both the biggest and the smallest salmon for the boat on the same trip:
Bes’ respect dawg! But yea, I’ll take a limit of salmon thank you verrrry much!
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Getting back into it, I went out on the Ankeny Street in April, last weekend even! Yea, I’m not as far behind in updates as I usually tend to be! d= We left Pillar Point Harbor around 7:30am and headed out about Continue reading Salmon Opener April 2015