What a difference a day makes! We set out again for a local potluck trip and things went a lot better than yesterday. We managed to pick up some live bait then after motoring to out lucky spot dropped in for lingcod and rockcod. Immediately we started catching rockcod and lings. Came home with a nice cooler of lingcod and rockcod. Water is getting calmer after the storm and things should be picking up even more this week.
Our first trip out this season for local potluck. With the storm that just passed, winds were big and seas were uncomfortable. Our group worked real hard to get the fish to bite and were able to get a few lingcod and rockcod. Kept two of the lings and the rockcod. Hats off to our active duty Coast Guard AH64 mechanic, Alexa, for landing a beautiful dark blue lingcod. Don’t get to see these very often.
That’s a wrap folks! We had a wonderful year of fishing and meeting up with both old and new friends. Lot’s of fish caught and lot’s of fun. Tyler, Greg, Rodney and I appreciate your business and very much look forward to fishing with you again in 2024. Fishing season opens back up May 1, 2024
Out to the deep for lings and things today. Got our bait then tried for lingcod but they weren’t biting. Ran up the coast for rockcod and did okay. Water was a wee bit bUmPy today.
Out to the deep today with high hopes of big fish. Mother nature had other plans for us. East wind made fishing difficult but we did manage to knock out limits of chili peppers and green spots.
Out to the deep again for lingcod and rockcod. Water wasn’t very nice so it was a bumpy day. Got to the lingcod grounds and the mackerel have taken over the area. Mackerel went for miles and the lingcod weren’t interested in what we had to offer so we headed up the coast for rockcod. Found the chili peppers and green spots and a fat red and petrale sole!
Ran out for lingcod today and made bait but the mackerel were thick! Turns out the lings already had their meal for the day so we headed up the coast and got into the chili peppers and petrale sole. Perfect weather and water today and a little bit of a whale show too.
We only have one seat still available for our Jurassic Park lingcod trip next Sunday the 29th. Our new lingcod fishing grounds are producing lingcod to 18 pounds and I’m sure there’s even bigger ones out there just waiting to be caught. Click here to sign up!
Out to the deep lingcod part of Jurassic Park today. After making bait we drop in our lines and picked away at the lings. Water and wind were ugly but we managed to get some lings to bite. Lost one big one too. Happy family with lingcod, sand dabs and mackerel on the dinner menu.
Out to the deep for Jurassic Park. Fishing was a little slow due to the storm that passed through the past couple of days. We worked hard and we got limits for five of green stripe, green spot, and canary rockcod.
Our first bluefin tuna trip of the season. Water was perfect. Quite a few boats fishing but not a lot of fish caught today. Water looked good so maybe the big tuna bite will be soon.
Out to the deep once again and the fish were waiting for us! Knocked out limits of big green spots, chili peppers and reds today for five. Great time watching the youngsters 8-yo Margo and 10-yo Fin wind up their fish with mom, dad and grandpa John. Good whale show too!
Little bumpy water early then the water laid down. Today we caught our biggest red (vermillion rockfish) ever at 11 pounds! Also got limits of 2-3 pound chili peppers. Awesome catch today. Just some of the fish and people in the pics.
Perfect water today for our Jurassic Park trip to the deep. As soon as we dropped our lines in it was game on! Nine year-old Allison brought in the first and biggest fish of the day then it was a steady pick of yellowtail, canary, red, green spots. Limits for four!
Wow! Slam dunked sixty nice chili peppers in no time! Beautiful water and 72 air temp. This is as good as it gets! Just some of the fish in the pictures.
Another wild fishing day at Jurassic Park. Water was as flat as a pancake, zero wind, and 70 degrees air temp. As soon as we dropped in our lines it was like catfishing in a barrel. Double after double the big chili peppers came up. The pic shows some of the catch for the day. Fun fun fun!
Awesome Jurassic Park trip today with early limits for four (pic only shows some of the fish and missing one fisherman). Thanks Marvin (and his mother) for sharing the tasty pupusas!
Nice flat water for our afternoon halibut trip. Went down the coast where the halibut had been biting and trolled. No takers! Went to a Capitola reef and picked up some blue rockfish. Today was the last day for local rockfish fishing. Will open again May 2024.
The weather report indicated poor weather offshore so we stayed closer to Santa Cruz for a local rockcod trip. Nailed six limits of blues, olives and reds. Dropped a couple lingcod. Weather was nice!
