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!
Back up to the halibut grounds. Didn’t leave the dock until after 8am so we knew our weather window was going to be short. These guys fished real hard and were handsomely rewarded with three beautiful halibut to 25 pounds and a nice lingcod. Wind picked up around 10am and so did we.
Foggy start but smooth seas out at the halibut grounds. The bite was on right away with solid fish hitting the deck. Ashley from Modesto landed the star of the trip—a 41″ 30-lb halibut that put up a serious fight! Not long after, three rods bent at once and in just 90 minutes we had limits for four anglers. Back to the dock early with happy anglers, eight halibut, and full coolers. This was our season’s biggest halibut. Great fishing today!
Up the coast for a Jurassic Park trip. Water was ! As soon as we dropped in our lines it was game on with big black and blue rockfish until before we knew it we hit six limits of some very big rockcod. We had a little extra time so scooched over to halibut territory for a couple drifts and BINGO immediately brought in a 26 pound hog. Great day.
Weather seems to have changed a bit from the last couple days so we opted to stay closer to Santa Cruz and fish local. Near limits of blues, reds and olive rockfish.
Great day on the water for our Jurassic Park trip. Our guests came in from Fresno escaping 100-degree weather and fished in 65-degree weather all day. The fishing was really good today with four limits of nice rock cod, five ling cod, and one fat 30-pound halibut! The halibut took a while to land, and we all thought after ten minutes of battle it was a big shark. Nope, just a really big halibut. Our biggest of the season.
South swell is in town and has made halibut catching difficult. After a few hours of trying we switched over to Jurassic Park and SMACKED the big blues and reds. Got our limits and headed home.
We had another awesome day of halibut fishing today with our group of five! We used our Sure-Bite UV Fortified Squid Formula, a MEGA-BITE proprietary blend that fish can’t resist, and it really paid off. We brought home ten fish and released some lingcod, rockcod, and a halibut or two. There were lots of smiles and it was hard work, and it definitely paid off big time! Our biggest catch was 22 pounds. Go Marines and Go Navy!
We were heading out for halibut but the water conditions weren’t very nice so we opted for rockcod closer to home port. Fish for some nice rockcod then headed back to the barn early. Great family!
A great day for a run out to Jurassic Park with clear skies and relatively calm seas… for an hour! Then the water seemed to have taken a turn and it got a little bumpy. Fished hard and fast for our family of four for lingcod and rockcod. Great time!
