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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