The wind blew on Friday night and Saturday making the water colder and slowing the halibut bite, but Frank Green still caught 3 on Saturday, 1 on Sunday, from the Day Beach. Then Frank towed his boat home for the season, claiming he caught the last one. I think there might be a few more out there and, weather permitting, I'll try to prove it. The rockfish season is now over so the counts from the weekend don't really matter, but most boats caught their limits. On that note, when a fish counter asks how many canary rockfish you threw back the numbers you give them are used not to tell the PFMC how plentiful canary rockfish are but to estimate the number that die after release so the season can be closed early to save them. Knowing this now I think I know what my future answers will be.
Also, some salmon being taken up off the Russian River. Maybe moving this way? Even if they're not the River isn't too far.
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some tuesday info - a friend and i read about an off shore wind event predicted for tuesday so we thought we'd go weather fishing. shot the gauntlet of a large groundswell that broke across the whole bar by watching the sets for 15 minutes and sprinting between them. trolled from kehoe passed abbot's in 40' of water without a scratch. we were hybrid trolling for salmon and halibut right off the bottom. would have trolled shallower but that darn ground swell ... at least 6' - was breaking fiercely on the beach - so we kept our distance from the surf.
the off shore weather very quickly pulled a 180 onshore and there were white caps within 15 minutes of the switch. we cut bait and ran back to the bar where the ground swell had reduced in size and the wind wasn't nearly as bad as outside. we didn't have live bait, so we did the best we could with frozen herring. we started at the bottom slack at around 10:30 and tried for two hours for nada. saw one other boat take one small halibut. i put the boat back on the dock, fogged, motors and took the kicker off and put the winter tarp on. a typical end to a lousy year.
this little blog has rapidly become the most important web site ever. i hope you guys keep this site going next year. i'll happily contribute all of my skunk stories so people know where not to fish.
only six months til openning day,
/derek
p.s. please give me a shout if you ever need a deck hand
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