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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!
Unfortunately it didn’t pan out. Fish weren’t really interested in bars much, only fish shaped iron. Many more fish were instead landed on swim baits (5″ – 9″) and shrimp flies (both baited with & without squid). These two swim baits did the best for me on Friday:
I had less luck with other colors. Only had 1 bite on a shrimp fly all day:
If you haven’t seen it yet, here’s a video tutorial (w/ first person view) of how to tie your own swimbait + teaser hook (shrimp fly) rigs!
You can swap out the jighead for anything, like metal hex bars from above, or swap to a p-line laser minnow & make a ho-d jig, aka generic bala jig (similar to what daiwa bala jigs used to be).
So the day was kinda slow. Fishing really picked up only at one spot, and only for 2 or 3 drifts. We spent most of the day fishing in 100+ feet of water, tiring as hell! I was swapping between a 2oz and 4oz jig head swim bait rig. Near the end when we hit 150+ ft of water, I finally gave up & swapped to shrimp flies. Not like they were biting my swim bait rig anyways. Hooked on a 10oz weight to hold bottom. 12oz might have been better.
One very important note is that I wasn’t getting any bites at first. I looked around and saw the smart guys (Lam & his bunch off the back) were not aggressively jigging. It was almost a slow drag off the bottom as opposed to a bounce. Soon as I swapped jigging styles, I started doing better. Got to start my day with a cabezon!
FYI video is processing, but I can’t stay up waiting for it. Video should be live in 2-3 hours. Currently 1:42 AM PST
I’ll give you a useless hint, I was using a swim bait again! I think it was the green & red christmas tree color from above.
Tada! Not bad, got both a ling & a cabbie for my first trip out!
Other than that, just your usual browns, coppers, vermilion, a few china scattered about the boat.
Check out the video or the imgur gallery to see more: http://imgur.com/a/pbF5T
Give Capt. Chris a call if you want to have a great trip! Smiles all around 😀
Stay tuned! I have a Pacifica Pier crabbing report coming up. Went for a visit on Sunday, 4/19/2015, and took a look around at everyone’s catch!
Got a day full of meetings tomorrow though, so I gotta ruuuun. Laters! Wishing ya’ll tight lines :]