We report ALL of our fishing trips so you can have an idea of how the catching has been going. Pictures show just some of their catch for the day. Click on any picture to get a better view.
Thanks everyone for a fantastic 2024 season. We had a lot of great times and a lot of great fishing! Looking forward to seeing you next fishing season. We start back up April 2025.
Jurassic Park deep reef today for some lingcod and rockcod action. After getting live bait dropped in our lines and 13yo Cruz had the biggest Ling of the day at 19 pounds. We got big reds to 10 pounds and a good variety of chili pepper, copper, reds, green spots. Just some of the fish caught are shown. Great day!
We have perfect weather for Saturday through Thursday to fish Jurassic Park. Jurassic Park fishing closes after October 31st so if you’ve been wanting to get into big fish this season you only have a couple weeks left. These fish are big!
Awesome Jurassic Park trip and awesome crew. Water was pretty big and bumpy but the guys toughed through it and smashed the lingcod using live bait. Also caught vermillion (reds) over ten pounds. Big fish, big water, and big day!
Jurassic Park Deep Reef again today and the lingcod were biting! Also brought home reds and chili pepper and petrale sole.` Flat as a pancake water today.
Awesome day at Jurassic Park deep reef. After getting live bait the lingcod game was on! Biggest two lings were 20# and 17.5#. The rest weren’t small either. Also brought home reds up to 7 pounds and nice big chili peppers.
Beautiful day for our Jurassic Park trip today. Jigged up live bait and went after lingcod. The kids smashed the lingcod today with a couple over 17 pounds and nothing under 10 pounds. Also brought in big reds, yellowtail and greenspot rockcod. Awesome time and a cool 65 degree air temp.
Made a run far up the coast to test the chili pepper grounds. We found them too. Nice chili peppers, yellowtail, reds, canaries and green stripe rockcod.
Out to the lingcod grounds again and after a couple hours only got a couple into the boat. We lost ten! Afterwards went over and picked up some reds, canary, and green spots and a few petrale sole. Water was a little bumpy and it was foggy.
Jurassic Park deep water today. Lingcod were biting good and so were the reds. 13 year-old Luke reeled in four lingcod himself. Great water conditions and air temp was a cool 63 degrees.
Started out looking for halibut but the recent swell made halibut fishing slow. Switched to rockcod and we got in to them big time. Lot’s a blue rockcod.
The rockcod, lingcod and halibut bite continues to be good to very good here in Santa Cruz. Albacore tuna seemed to have moved out of the area with only a couple handfuls being caught. Looks like we have to wait for the bluefin to show up.
Out to the halibut grounds today and smooth seas but a wee bit foggy. Got to our honey hole and started drifting fresh caught squid. Brought home some nice halibut and big smiles. 11yo Jason from Hollister got his first ocean caught fish and it was a good one!
Tried to get back out to south rock but the afternoon winds were blowing too hard so puttered around looking for fish closer to port. Winds finally came down a bit and got offshore more and we got into the big blues. Came home with reds, olives and blues.
Beautiful day for our local potluck trip. Ran out to south rock and we got into the olives, blues and reds big time. Great group including 84 year-old war veteran Fred. Awesome time.
Local potluck today with some local families. First drop in we hooked up and even got a blue lingcod right off the bat. Things slowed down while we moved around picking up blues, olives, browns, canaries and reds the rest of the trip. Due to a last minute cancellation for tomorrow we have three seats available. Call now and we’ll get you out there for some nice rockfish and maybe even a lingcod or two.
The albacore fishing has slowed down and they’re farther offshore than a few days ago. Looks like we have to wait for when the warmer water comes back in. Probably 2-3 days from now. The local fishing for halibut has been good. Lingcod and rockcod are picking up too.
Local halibut trip today with a great group of guys from over the hill. South swell is in town and really knocked down the nearshore fishing. No halibut today.
