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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.

April 30

May 1, 2022 by Tom Dolan

Well, it happens. We were at the wrong place at the wrong time. We got a couple salmon in the boat and broke off even more.

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April 29

April 30, 2022 by Tom Dolan

Jurassic Park today and we had a great time! Caught more than ten different species of pacific snapper including, flag, olive, blue, black, red, canary, china, chili pepper, brown, and yellowtail. Wow!

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April 28

April 29, 2022 by Tom Dolan

Salmon fishing is off the hook! Salmon should be sticking around the area for at least another month. Time to get on the boat! Check Availability <montereybaycharters.com/availability-calendar>

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April 26

April 26, 2022 by Tom Dolan

Awesome day on the salmon grounds again today. Lots of whales too!

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April 25

April 25, 2022 by Tom Dolan

Salmon fishing has been off the hook! Charter boats have been limiting out for the past couple days. Limit is two salmon per person. We have one day available to book this week.

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April 24

April 24, 2022 by Tom Dolan

Our party of four did good today with eight keepers and a heck of a whale show!

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April 22

April 22, 2022 by Tom Dolan

Storms have really made their mark this week with big swells and big wind. We fished all over today and managed to find some willing rockcod. Lots of fun and lots of holding on.

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April 18

April 19, 2022 by Tom Dolan

Jurassic Park today with clear skies and calm seas. The lingcod were biting today! Managed to keep five nice lingcod and a ton of nice sized rockfish (pacific snapper). Lot’s of happy smiles. 86 year-old Poppy brought in the biggest lingcod all by himself. Wouldn’t let anyone near his rod!

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April 17

April 19, 2022 by Tom Dolan

Very nice flat calm day for salmon fishing. Headed down toward Moss and immediately started hooking up. Had nine hookups and kept three nice fish.

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April 15

April 15, 2022 by Tom Dolan

Another perfect fishing day as we ran out for salmon. No whales today but we did find salmon. Not many fish landed today. Salmon fishing is back to slow again. Storm coming in tomorrow so it will be a couple days before we get back into some good salmon counts.

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April 14

April 15, 2022 by Tom Dolan

Awesome fishing day with an awesome family. Ran out to Jurassic Park to get our rockcod then spent the afternoon fishing for salmon. More whales than we could keep track of. Amazing site watching these whales feed all around us. And we got salmon while watching! Happy birthday 14yo Cal and congrates on your shark too!

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April 9

April 9, 2022 by Tom Dolan

Jurassic Park today and the water was a wee bit uncomfortable for our guests. Cut the trip short and we’ll try again another day.

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April 8

April 8, 2022 by Tom Dolan

Since salmon has been slow we opted instead for Jurassic Park. Water was a bit nasty with swells and high winds. We covered a lot of territory and were finally rewarded with some rockfish. Our group from Wounded Warriors were real troopers today putting up with big water and big wind. Fun group.

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April 3

April 3, 2022 by Tom Dolan

Our firstJurassic Park trip of the season and was great! 40+ pacific snapper and some lingcod. Happy campers. Emma was our highliner and John was the lincod slayer.

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April 2

April 2, 2022 by Tom Dolan

Bit of a bumpy ride out to the grounds today and a ton of boats for the salmon opener. Had six hookups but three were too short, one came off at the boat, another never did show up and got one in the box. Fish are still scattered but should start seeing better numbers within a few days.

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January 1 thru March 31

January 8, 2022 by Tom Dolan

Fishing season opens April 1st for rockcod and lingcod. April 2 salmon season reopens. Book your trip now! Should be an awesome fishing season.

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December 30 – 2021

December 30, 2021 by Tom Dolan

It’s been a while since Mother Nature gave us good water conditions to fish and today was on! Awesome day at Jurassic today. The fish were on a good bite! Even found a lingcod. Good water and weather but tomorrow is blown out.
Happy New Year everyone! See you in April when our fishing season reopens.

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December 18

December 18, 2021 by Tom Dolan

Awesome Jurassic Park trip today. No lingcod but real good yellowtail bite with copper, greenspot, brown and widow rockfish.

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December 7

December 17, 2021 by Tom Dolan

Weather was okay but the fish didn’t want to bite with the king tide (low tide -1′ high tide +6′). We got fish, just not as many as we would have liked.

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December 5

December 5, 2021 by Tom Dolan

Awesome day at Jurassic Park today with limits of quality canary, greenspot, brown and red pacific snapper.

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December 3

December 3, 2021 by Tom Dolan

Jurassic Park today. Ran out to the deep and had some difficulty keeping the lines straight with the fast drift. Found some willing snapper then headed closer to shore for lingcod. Not a big catch today.

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November 27

November 27, 2021 by Tom Dolan

Jurassic Park today for rockcod and we hammered out nice big yellowtail, canary, and copper pacific snapper.

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November 22

November 23, 2021 by Tom Dolan

Water was not so nice today. Ran out to Jurassic Park and found a couple lings and some nice canary, yellowtail, and greenspot pacific snapper. bUmPy WaTeR today.

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November 21

November 21, 2021 by Tom Dolan

Jurassic Park again today but the weather changed up our game. We got some nice lingcod but the rockcod just wouldn’t bite.

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November 20

November 21, 2021 by Tom Dolan

Another great day out at Jurassic Park. Lingcod are biting! After our lingcod we went for snapper and nailed em. Crew made fresh ceviche with a few rockcod for the ride back to the harbor.

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November 19

November 19, 2021 by Tom Dolan

Smokin hot lingcod bite today and some nice fat ones too. Kept 12.

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November 15

November 15, 2021 by Tom Dolan

Lingcod fishing is very good now.

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November 13

November 13, 2021 by Tom Dolan

Another awesome day at Jurassic Park with calm seas and 14 lingcod!

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November 12

November 12, 2021 by Tom Dolan

Tuna trip today. After catching our live mackerel ran up to the fingers as far as the 25 line. Then trolled out another 10 miles, then back downhill for another 20 miles. No tuna caught on any of the boats in the tuna grounds. Water temps showing it might be too cold to hold fish. After a long day and 60+ miles of searching, this may have been our last tuna trip for the season.

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November 11

November 11, 2021 by Tom Dolan

Great time at Jurassic Park today. Lingcod are biting!

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