Monday, May 9, 2016

     No salmon landed here this week, but the water is starting to get a little brown tint to it and the temp is up to 53º to 56º, so with the good weather this week we may see some more. There were quite a few rockfish caught, and one of the rockfishermen spotted a squid boat possibly working near Elephant Rock. It looks like there may be some squid around, still. No stripers but quite a few surfperch were caught. The crabbing was the usual, slow for many, good for a few. The clamming was great over the weekend with some of the lowest tides of the year. Along with the low tides came the wardens and they had a busy weekend again. They were checking by land and by sea (that would have really confused Paul Revere) and they wrote many tickets. They were very courteous about it, though, and even allowed a couple of people that had licenses but didn't bring them to purchase a duplicate license and avoid the ticket. Remember, the license doesn't have to be displayed anymore but it needs to be on your person while fishing, clamming or crabbing. Not having it with you is just a cheaper ticket, unless the wardens are in a good mood.
     Don't count on the mood thing.

7 comments:

  1. I still say the village pillory is the way to go for offenders.

    Outlaw

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  2. Not here. It's open from about Santa Cruz to the Mexican border with a closed area near a few islands down there. Here's a link to actual, useful information: http://www.cdph.ca.gov/Pages/NR16-023.aspx

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  3. On Red Rocks I spoke to the CDPH yesterday, and the latest results don't look good either... he basically told me it's no going to open this month.

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  5. Any word on the butts yet? Has anyone been out after them? Sure seems like the water is getting warm enough.

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  6. I took my boat out for a test run yesterday. Catching good bait was very quick. I did a couple of drifts North and South of Hog...water temp 57.4 with no luck. Picked up and ran down to just before Elephant and trolled the beach in 16 to 30 foot. For Nada. It's still early but was good to get out....Tony

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