*Jurassic Park has been on fire!* Another incredible trip with big fish across the rails. Everyone stayed busy today hauling up chili pepper rockfish after rockfish — doubles, double double at times! Non-stop action, great weather, and happy anglers all around.
*Another Awesome Day at the Deep Reef!* We had to grind it out a bit today, but the bite came alive on the deep reef slope! Chili pepper and green spot rockcod were stacked — doubles after doubles coming up from the deep. Before we knew it, limits were in the box! After wrapping up our rockcod limits, we headed in closer and switched gears for some lingcod action to finish the day strong. Flat seas, great crew, and full limits — just another epic day aboard *MEGA-BITE*!
Jurassic Park Delivered Big Today! What an awesome day on the MEGA-BITE! The action was non-stop out at Jurassic Park with double chili peppers coming over the rail on nearly every drop. Everyone limited out fast, and we still had time to move in closer for some quality lingcod fishing. Flat seas, full coolers, and smiling faces — it doesn’t get much better than that!
Fish were a little finicky today with the recent full moon and the impending storm but we got ’em! Big variety today with lingcod, rockcod, and petrale sole. Seas are growing but are very fishable.
Out to the deep reef today in a wee bit bumpy water. Once we got to our spot and dropped our lines in, it was game on! We slammed the chili peppers, consistent doubles until we hit limits… Took about 45 minutes! Then we headed to the lingcod grounds. Wind was coming up so it made fishing challenging. Got a ling then decided to get closer to shore and try for more lings. Too late, Mother Nature already started blowing hard. Beautiful grade of fish today and six limits of rockcod.
Gorgeous day on the water. Took a ride out to our favorite deep water fishing grounds for some wide-open catching of quality chili-peppers then came into our secret lingcod spot and grabbed a few lingcod on our way home. Awesome group and awesome day!
Water was much nicer today and the fishing was a wide open bite. Awesome day with awesome people. Six lingcod and 40 chili peppers for four people plus a big petrale sole. Yahoo!
Out to the Deep Reef today for lingcod, petrale sole and big rockfish. The storm was supposed to have passed by last night but… the water was still pretty chewed up. The fish were slow to bite and there were miles of squid around. Seemed like the fish weren’t very hungry with all the squid around so after a few hours we decided to pack it in and run up the coast. Good move. When we got up there the bite went wide-open. Lots of chili peppers, green spots, green stripes and even got a black cod! Hopefully tomorrow’s weather will have calmed down a bit more.
We headed out to the Deep Reef today for our Jurassic Park trip, and it was fish on from the moment we dropped our lines! We spent a few hours targeting lingcod and big rockcod before running out even farther to pick up a couple dozen chili pepper rockfish. Flat-calm seas, big fish, and lots of action—what a perfect day!
Awesome halibut trip today in mixed water conditions. Ran up the coast and fished live anchovies (thank you Rick) and squid. Big fish today. Anyone wanting live bait can swing by the end of S dock by the bait receiver. Rick will take good care of you. Thank you Rick and KG for bringing live bait back to Santa Cruz harbor.
Back out to the Deep for bigger fish. We dropped in our lines and started hooking up with big fish right away. At times all rods were fish on! Weather got nasty after an hour so went closer to shore for limits of big rockcod.
Jurassic Park – Deep is now open for the remainder of the season. The official regulation change went into effect last night. Get ready for some seriously big fish!
Fishing out of Santa Cruz is still going strong! Bluefin are moving closer to our grounds, with two around 150 lbs caught just yesterday. Halibut action remains solid, and some are getting big (30+ pounds)! Lingcod season is heating up as the big ones move in from the deep to spawn. Rockfish have been fantastic. And don’t miss our Jurassic Park – Deep Reef opener coming up—stay tuned!
Great Jurassic Park run today. Weather was flat calm and a nice 65 degree breeze. The rockcod went wide-open for us with five limits of some quality rockcod, a couple nice lingcod and a halibut. The kids did a great job. Way to go Mia and Kai.
Local rockcod trip today in beautiful weather. Headed out to South Rock and after a slow first hour, the bite went wide open! Reds, blues and olive rockcod were coming over the rail nonstop for four limits. Fun fun fun.
Local rockcod today and flat calm seas (finally). Ran out a little further to get away from the ground swell and found the fish! Our group of six anglers worked hard to hammer out limits plus crew fish. Nice quality red, blue and yellowtail rockcod. Great day. Thank you Navy and Army for joining us.
Back up to the halibut grounds again for some more hot halibut action. Water was calm and so was the wind. Too calm. We did manage to get four halibut in the box and some rock sole. Fun day.
Up to the halibut grounds today on nice flat seas and an air temp around 65. Hooked into ten halibut. Brought home six nice halibut the biggest went 22 pounds.
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Happy Labor Day!!! Ran out to our lingcod and rockcod area today. The rockcod bite was wide open but only found one lingcod. Happy group and a bit of bumpy ocean.
Our 4 man group from Reno came down to escape the Reno heat. In the beginning, the fishing was slow. About an hour later the wind laid down the rockcod bite went wide open! Awesome sized blues, olives and blacks. Limits for all. See you guys again next year!
This morning we had my most exciting return Customer, 10 year-old Tom aka Hook. This young man fishes around the world and has accomplished more than any fisherman I know including Grand Slams (two types of marlin) and a sailfish in one trip… multiple times. He and granddaddy Tom had a great day today catching rockcod.
It got windy for our afternoon local rockcod trip. Fish didn’t seem to mind and we whacked out 60 rockcod for our group from Santa Clara. Some of these rockcod were the biggest blues we’ve seen this season.
Sure was nice to see Joaquin and brother Raul again. This time they filled the boat with their wonderful family. Most are artists so you can imagine the atmosphere of all these creative people. Headed up the coast for lingcod and big rockcod. Water was flat as a pancake and the rockcod were biting! Lingcod seemed to be taking a break and we only brought home one nice one. Thanks again to our repeat Customers. This is what keeps us going!
Back up the coast for another Jurassic Park adventure. Started out loading up on rockcod and lingcod. These blues were the biggest we’ve seen this year! Awesome bite. Landed four nice lingcod then headed to halibut territory. Wham! Two nice halibut. Came home with a cooler full of rockcod, sole, lingcod and halibut.
Off to Jurassic Park for another wild adventure. You just never know what you’re going to bring up for the depths. Flat calm water with rockcod limits, four nice lingcod and a 5-1/2 foot wolf eel! They taste like lobster. That’s a lot of lobster!
