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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly!

We report ALL of our fishing trips so you can have an idea of how the catching has been going. Click on any picture to get a better view.

August 24

August 24, 2022 by Tom Dolan

Awesome local potluck trip today with flat seas and plenty of fish including Ramsey’s lingcod.

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August 23

August 23, 2022 by Tom Dolan

This week’s weather calls for calm seas. Fishing has been very good for pacific snapper (rockfish, rockcod), lingcod and halibut. Good grade of fish too. Salmon and tuna are longshots at best. One boat went waaaay offshore and managed to pick up a few albacore (3?). The salmon have already moved up the coast and into their respective rivers for spawning.

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August 22

August 22, 2022 by Tom Dolan

Happy happy family up from orange county. Local potluck today and the catching was non stop! Olives, blues, browns, canary, and red pacific snapper (rockfish).

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August 20

August 20, 2022 by Tom Dolan

Headed out to the deep reef for Jurassic Park today. Fish were big! Canaries, green spots, coppers, yellowtail and red pacific snapper. Fish getting packed and taken back to Idaho!

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August 19

August 20, 2022 by Tom Dolan

Another awesome day of local potluck fishing and lots of big canary, brown and red pacific snapper.

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August 13

August 13, 2022 by Tom Dolan

Local potluck today for rockfish. A little difficult to get the fish biting but we found some willing fish. Nice olive, blue, brown and red pacific snapper.

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August 12 – Afternoon trip

August 13, 2022 by Tom Dolan

Big wind this afternoon so we had to try really hard to find fish. Took a while but we found em! Thank you Ramsay for bringing your family from Switzerland to Monterey Bay. Glad they got some fish!

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August 12 – Morning trip

August 12, 2022 by Tom Dolan

Awesome fishing today with our happy family from Wisconsin. Really nice people and really nice fish!

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August 11

August 11, 2022 by Tom Dolan

Back from commercial fishing and back in the saddle for charter fishing. Big day today for our friends from Scott’s Valley and Utah. Big canary, brown, blue, olive, and red snapper and lingcod today. Happy campers!

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August 2

August 2, 2022 by Tom Dolan

Our first halibut trip of the season and WOW! Our Nebraska team of three nailed the halibut today. Boated nine and kept the biggest seven. Fresh squid was the ticket!

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August 1

August 1, 2022 by Tom Dolan

Happy belated Christmas present to 12 yo Evan. Was supposed to fish when he was 9 but covid got in the way. Wow, what a banner day today with lingcod and lots of snapper. Caught all fish early! Great whale show today too.

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July 31

July 31, 2022 by Tom Dolan

Local potluck again today. Lots of fog with zero wind and flat calm seas. Happy Birthday Andy! Great fishing with you and the family today. Limits of quality snapper today.

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July 30 – Afternoon trip

July 31, 2022 by Tom Dolan

The fishing was great this afternoon for our local potluck. Nice quality fish and lots of happy faces.

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July 30 – Morning trip

July 31, 2022 by Tom Dolan

Flat calm seas for our morning potluck trip and lots of fishing action. Some of the biggest reds we’ve seen this year.

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July 29

July 29, 2022 by Tom Dolan

Ran up the coats for our Jurassic Park trip today. Foggy morning with flat seas. The fishing was off the hook! Came home with limits for all (plus crew) of olive, yellowtail, canary, black, blue, china, brown copper and and red pacific snapper. A lot of fish were BIG!

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July 26

July 27, 2022 by Tom Dolan

Great fishing for today’s jurassic park potluck trip with lots of smiles, lingcod and snapper.

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July 18

July 18, 2022 by Tom Dolan

Still have the south ground swell in town so fishing has been a little on the slow side. Rockfish were biting today but nothing big.

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July 17

July 18, 2022 by Tom Dolan

Awesome local potluck fishing today. Still have the swell in town so the ride was a little bumpy but we scored good on the rockfish. Hot Bobby (Robert) won the jackpot with his last drop lingcod.

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July 16

July 17, 2022 by Tom Dolan

Still a swell in town but the wind’s have come down a bit. Ran a little offshore to fish and we got into the olives and blues real good! Nick won the pot with a three-pound olive.

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July 15

July 15, 2022 by Tom Dolan

Still have some ground swells and wind waves in town. Fortunately the fish were biting good today!

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July 14

July 14, 2022 by Tom Dolan

Big ground swells and winds made our Jurassic Trip difficult. Fish were there we just couldn’t get them to bite like they usually do.

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July 13

July 13, 2022 by Tom Dolan

Nice afternoon local potluck trip today with plenty of wind and plenty of fish! Our friends from Las Vegas were taking in the cool breeze away from their 112 degree days back home. 13 year-old Axle and 9 year-old Jasper were hauling in the fish like pros! Even mom and dad brought in a few fish.

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July 7

July 7, 2022 by Tom Dolan

Slow day in the salmon grounds. Still have some whales around but the salmon seem to have taken a break.

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July 4

July 5, 2022 by Tom Dolan

Great day on the water today. Was flat as a pancake water and virtually no wind. We got into the fish big time! Olive, blue, black, brown and red pacific snapper.

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July 3

July 4, 2022 by Tom Dolan

Salmon are still in town. Today we got small and big fish. Happy days!

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July 2

July 2, 2022 by Tom Dolan

Salmon trip again today. Weather was mild all day. Big fish were scarce today but did come home with salmon for everyone.

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July 1

July 1, 2022 by Tom Dolan

The salmon are in town! Ton of salmon, perfect water conditions, whale and dolphin show too.

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June 30

June 30, 2022 by Tom Dolan

Ran up the coast today for our Jurassic Park trip to get away from the wind. Water temps are still cold up there so it started out a slow bite. Came in closer to Santa Cruz and things went wide-open!

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June 29

June 29, 2022 by Tom Dolan

Awesome day for our local potluck fishing. Our friends from Redding started hauling in fish as soon as we dropped our lines in. Reds, blacks, browns and olive pacific snapper and a big fat blue lingcod to top it off.

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June 22

June 22, 2022 by Tom Dolan

FYI – Halibut are biting pretty good now. Big salmon have shown up too.

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