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.
Santa Cruz/Moss
Landing/Monterey
Todd Arcaleo reported 14
limits of crab and near
limits of rockfish on
their inaugural
combination trip on
Tuesday 11-10 with
another 10 limits of
crab and near limits of
rockfish on Thursday
11-12 fishing in
local waters. Limits of
crab is a pretty good
score for the Monterey
area. They are running
combo trips through
Sunday for the very
affordable price of
$65.00.
Bayside Marine in Santa
Cruz reported good
scores of crab from
keeper size to over
six-inches straight out
from the Santa Cruz
Harbor and near Natural
Bridges. The six-pack
Becky Ann has been
picking up easy limits
on all trips.
Rockfishing season ends
on Sunday, and there are
still a few boats
working the northern
county near Franklin
Point. Humboldt squid
are coming out of the
deep canyons at the
Soquel Hole and
Davenport. There also
have been good reports
from private boaters
pulling squid out of the
depths on a wide open
bite in 1000 feet in the
Monterey area at
36.36 and 122.02.
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San Luis Obispo
The albacore are
offshore, and Virg's
will be running trips
daily departing at 11:00
p.m. and returning
between 7 and 8 on the
following evening for
$235/angler. They
reported 264 passengers
landed 113 albacore to
28-pounds, four bluefin
tuna, 6 skipjacks, 13
ling cod to 7-pounds,
208 vermilion, 1027
assorted rockfish, 149
coppers, and 22
boccaccio. Top local
anglers were\ Crystal
Wall of Porterville and
Brian Demarak of
Bakersfield with
7-poundlings. Their next
two-day trip is
scheduled for October
17/18th for $205/
angler. Jerry Williams
went on a private boat
on Sunday 30 miles
straight out of Morro
Bay for 12 tuna from 17
to 30-pounds, all on
jigs.
Patriot Sport Fishing in
Avila Beach had an
albacore trip out on
Sunday 9-27 for 20 fish
to 17-pounds for 14
angler fishing 50 miles
out of the port. On
their rockfishing trips,
they boated limits plus
10 lings to 9-pounds on
one trip with an average
of 3/4 limits. The top
local angler was Raul
Espinosa of Visalia with
a 7-pound ling. A
33-pound thresher shark
was also taken during
the week. There were a
total of 12 lings landed
this week.
Their annual Ling Cod
Contest runs from August
15th through November
15th with a $3000.00 top
prize. Patriot has given
out a total of 81 free
trips this season for
releasing a 10-pound
plus ling cod.
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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