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!
Pacifica Pier
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:
Striped Perch from Pacifica 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.
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!
You don’t want to miss out, I’ll be posting pictures when I get a chance while I’m out on the water!
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.
Glorious yellow boat
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!
Pillar Point Harbor
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!
hex bar jig with red flasher stickers and a tube bait
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:
smallest & largest salmon
Bes’ respect dawg! But yea, I’ll take a limit of salmon thank you verrrry much!
Before I go & forget, let me stop to mention that I’m also starting to create all dem social mediars pages now, so ya’ll best follow/add/subscribe to keep up!
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→
So I went back to treasure island in the San Francisco Bay recently! This marks my third trip out to try to fish. Only this time, there weren’t 3 people blocking off the entire pier by casting all over hell. Thanks guys, but please just learn to cast straight…
Anyways! Went out on a Sunday recently. I was originally aiming to get there around 6:50am with the sunrise:
Tide table
As you can see, there was a low tide about an hour before sunrise. Figured I’d beat the crowd and get there first and fish the tide as it came in. Also the wind was supposed to pick up later in the day, so I thought that was going to be my only opportunity.
Turns out I snoozed out and woke up around 12pm instead d= I later went outside to get something from my car and found it was caaallllmmm outside, barely any wind! What the heck forecast! So I packed up real quick, and headed out. Wound up arriving around 5:45 PM. Was surprised as I walked up to find not a single person fishing the old pier.
Happily I hopped down on the right side of the pier to try my luck with gulp camo sandworms (surf fishermen report these things working wonders for perch).
right side of the pier
Didn’t even get a nibble. Not even a NIBBLE. You gotta be kidding me. I used to poke pole with these things and caught rock cod, monkeyface eels, heck even an undersized ling or two with them.
At first I was thinking well maybe its just a bad day. It wasn’t flat water, swells were kinda big… But then I thought, no, that can’t be right. Perch live and eat in the beach swells, they couldn’t be happier for this kind of weather since it kicks up food and what not.
So I tried switching up baits to mussels and instantly started getting bites. Seriously the perch on Treasure island are so spoiled…But I didn’t wind up landing anything on the right side. Decided to try my luck on the left side of the pier:
Grass is always greener on the other side eh
And it was! Finally started hooking into fish over here:
Golden Gate Bridge from the Ft Baker Pier (dungie being returned to the ocean)
YES IM GOING WITH THE SAME JOKE AGAIN
This is going to be a compilation post of the last two crabbing trips I went on. Both times we went out to the Fort Baker Pier to do some (successful!) crabbing. I fell behind on blogging again, so…its what ya’ll are getting.
Welp, this took longer than I thought to get out. Turns out we’re leaving for Japan in 4 days. Almost feel like it snuck up on us , even with Bill constantly griping about going to Japan soon and how we should be more stressed than we are d=
Its looking like there’s a chance I won’t be fully caught up before I leave town, so here’s hoping!
China, black, and vermilion rock cod
Here’s what I decided to take home from the trip on the Ankeny Street on 12/14/2014. Could have taken home a limit, but I had to clean it all myself, and let’s be honest. I can’t eat 10 fish on my own. Anyone I know want fish regularly once the season opens back up? Let me know, I constantly have too much.
Anyhow, this was in the middle of the chain of storms we’ve been having all through December. We weren’t even completely sure we’d be able to go out until the morning of. I think Capt. Chris felt a little guilty about canceling a trip a few weeks prior (due to insane weather forecast) but it turned out to be an okay day. Forecast said something like 15 knots of wind and 6+ ft waves or something from what I saw. But Chris decided it was game on, we’d give it a shot.
So I was up around 5am waiting to hear, and when I finally did it turns out I needed to go pick up some bait for him d=
