MONTEREY

The Richmond Hunting Club is a not for profit sportsmen organization. The club has four clubhouses and over 18,000 acres of some of the finest upland game and waterfowl  property in the Princeton / Colusa / Williams triangle. Annual family memberships start at just $500. per season. For more information about the "RHC" please contact us at (707)-451-1690.
 

November 20, 2009    Headlines
Crab Limits, Rockfish Now Closed
Tough weather has kept all but the biggest commercial crabbers in port today, Friday 11-20. The weather buoys were reporting winds of 25 to 30 knots over a double digit swell today. That's the bad news... The good news is we are going to see steadily improving weather the next few days. The best  window of opportunity to have all you can eat crab for Thanksgiving is this Sunday to Wednesday time period. The forecast calls for light winds of 5 to 15 knots and swells of 6 to 8 feet. Private boaters are still reporting easy limits of mostly smallish crabs from all ports and party boats have room. For Golden Gate anglers the Emeryville Sport Center is offering crab and dab trips daily. Out of Bodega Bay the Miss Anita is scheduled to be out of the boat yard this week after a months long repowering and will be running straight crab trips while the New Sea Angler will be running squid trips. Out of Half Moon Bay the Hulicat is running crab trips while the Huck Finn Center switches over to the winter focus of whale watching and wildlife viewing trips. Chris's in Monterey is running crab and dab trips.

POINT REYES TO PIGEON POINT TO 10 NM-
639 PM PST FRI NOV 20 2009

SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FOR ROUGH BAR IN EFFECT THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON...
SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM PST THIS EVENING
TONIGHT NW WINDS 15 TO 25 KT...DECREASING TO 10 TO 20 KT. WIND WAVES 3 TO 5 FT. W SWELL 8 TO 10 FT AT 13 SECONDS. CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND A SLIGHT CHANCE OF EVENING THUNDERSTORMS.
SAT NW WINDS 10 TO 20 KT. WIND WAVES 2 TO 4 FT. W SWELL 8 TO 10 FT AT 13 SECONDS.
SAT NIGHT NW WINDS 5 TO 15 KT. WIND WAVES 1 TO 3 FT. W SWELL 7 TO 9 FT AT 13 SECONDS.
SUN S WINDS 5 TO 10 KT. WIND WAVES 2 FT OR LESS. W SWELL 7 TO 9 FT. A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS.
MON NW WINDS 10 TO 20 KT. WIND WAVES 2 TO 4 FT. NW SWELL 5 TO 7 FT.
TUE NW WINDS 5 TO 15 KT. WIND WAVES 1 TO 3 FT. W SWELL 6 TO 8 FT.
WED N WINDS 5 TO 15 KT. WIND WAVES 1 TO 3 FT. W SWELL 6 TO 8 FT.

Santa Cruz/Monterey
Sonny Arcaleo of Chris's Landing in Monterey reported fantastic fishing on the final weekend of the rockfish season with limits of big fish taken on Sunday 11-15 at Point Sur. Their local crab/rockfish combination put in 14 limits of Dungeness crab and limits of a small grade of rockfish on local reefs. They will be taking crab/sand dab/mackerel combination trips throughout thewinter for $65.00/angler. Ly Tu reported barred perch to 2.1-pounds have bitten Berkley Camo Worms off of Sunset Beach.

San Luis Obispo
Virg's Landing in Morro Bay closed the rockfish season with a bang with full limits on their Saturday trips with the Princess and Fiesta fishing north of Cambria at San Simeon Acres for a combined 3 lingcod, 12 vermilion, 304 assorted rockfish, 45 coppers and 2 ocean whitefish for 49 passengers. The Harbor Pathfinder put in 1 ling, 12 vermilion, 192 assorted rockfish and 6 coppers for 21 fishermen. Patriot Sport Fishing in Avila Beach ended the season with 38 lings, 23 cabezon, 12 vermilion, 236 assorted rockfish and 444 brown rockfish on their closing trips. Their annual lingcod contest was won by Craig Gong of Selma with a 21-pound/9-ounce fish for a $3000.00 top prize. Patriot is taking sand dab trips over Thanksgiving weekend for $48. Rockfish season ended on Sunday, November 15th and will reopen on May 1, 2010. Both harbors will be taking nature and whale watching trips throughout the winter/spring months.


Politics and 2010 Salmon
Next year we should see at least a short salmon season but given the lack of angler support to help out the groups fighting the Govenator's canal plan, 2010 could well be the last year of ocean salmon in Central California in our lifetime.
Maybe the next generation will get it right but we sure F&*%@! it up for them. YOU aren't fishing  salmon this year because the politicos in Sacramento and Washington DC decided it was better to grow cotton in the California desert and put a subside check on a millionaire cotton farmer's table (and a contribution to their campaign) than keep fish swimming in our rivers. Anglers are the last line of defense but we are so unorginized that  we are going to get blitzed by the water contractors.
There is only one way out of this mess and it's through the courts and the hard work of
California Sportfishing Protection Alliance Please consider supporting them as they are pushing the lawsuits that will ensure a future or at least a hope of us ever salmon fishing in California again.
Our salmon runs didn't die, they were stolen from us by a 40% increase in water diversions from the Delta beginning in 2002. Unless water diversions are rolled back (through court order and the litigation of CSPA) salmon don't have a chance of making it to sea or you or your children to ever fish for them.
No group has done more over the past two decades to protect fisheries than CSPA. In the past two months USAFishing readers have raised nearly $10,000 for the CSPA but much much more is needed. Please visit their website and learn more about all the great work they are doing.
Become part of the solution and support the
California Sportfishing Protection Alliance today!


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