I saw this photo on Humboldt Tuna Club and thought that you might find it interesting, both for the facts that 1.) it shows a halibut landed in Tomales Bay (Hog Island is over his fish finder) on Wednesday, and that 2.) said halibut was caught on a
Redwood Coast Spreader Bars Humboldt Dredge. I have not used one of these myself but I don't know why a fish wouldn't bite the tail-end Charlie of a school of bait. Part of the success could have been the nice water temps on Wednesday. Here's the water temp graph from the Tomales Bay buoy:
Also, a friend of mine fished Tuesday and Wednesday back there for no bites and declared the bay empty. Maybe it is now...
In case you didn't see it in yesterday's comments, Wet Bandit posted:"
Was really flat out there yesterday, the water was too blueee.
Heard of a few shakers and a couple landed.Luckily we landed one on the good ol watermelon apex. only 26 inches but sure was tasty. 180 on the wire about 260 ft of water off elephant." So a salmon and a halibut landed on Wednesday. That's a red hot April report.
Listen to pcouncils salmon meeting
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The yurok tribe " we would rather have fish than a wall" the crowd roared in laughter
ReplyDeleteHave you ever seen the nets blocking the mouth of the Klamath river during the Salmon harvest. The tribe kills every fish over 6-8 pounds, and now they wonder where have all the Salmon gone. I have been there and watched as the Salmon buyers count out the $ hundred dollar bills. The so called one with nature Indians then go up river and clean up any Salmon that are left. A lot, not all of them are drug addicts, and drunks. It's the wild ,wild west up there. It's quite the sight to see them dragging a gill net thru a hole up river, even with 4-5 boats fishing the hole, if you say anything they point a shotgun at you. The fish that come from Iron Gate are bought and paid for by sport fishermen. The Yurok Tribe is a disgrace! Build the wall.
ReplyDeleteThe whole system is a joke. F&G enforces what pmfc says but none of them can do anything about the river flows, fish kills or disease. Burea of reclamation is to blame again.
ReplyDeleteAnyway wide open off moss landing if anyone cares
The big money for the Klamath Indians is the salmon roe. They could care less for the fish. The roe is sold to be shipped to Japan for , you got it, Sushi.. What a waste of salmon. Many years ago their was a movie about how there were piles of salmon with the bellies slit open for the roe and left in piles to rot I have no problem with the Indians ( sorry, I mean Native Americans) having salmon for food and to sell smoked to the public, but to take the roe and let the rest rot, that's Bull Sh..!
ReplyDeleteWonder if the roe tastes as good(sic)as the fish! Fall fish tastes soooooo good....yuck!!
DeleteThis is a first, I agree with ab fish. Take out the dams! Both of them, let the cool water from the Trinity flow naturally, and fill in the shallow algae choked Klamath Lake. Thanks for the fishing report, might trailer the boat down south if I can put together a crew.
ReplyDeleteThe fish that come into the Klamath system taste like pond water after a few days because of the pond behind Iron Gate Dam. The fish buyers will buy Salmon caught below the 101 bridge only. The fish the Indians net upriver are suppose to be for personal use but they sell these fish to smoke houses. The money these days is the fish caught at the mouth of the river. Yes they do sell the roe as well, the fish buyers don't buy it sport fishermen do two dollars a side.
ReplyDeleteThe process has gone way up. Kinda funny, too... I've only caught KlamKla river fish on Klamath river ore. Seems like fish from other rivers can taste the difference. Must be something in the water.
DeleteFished near Hog today, no bites. I was one of about 6-7 boats fishing. Nobody had anything. There was a lot of bait. We took a ride to the bar, and on the outside there was a big Coast Guard Ship, it had a couple of cranes on deck and a chopper flying around overhead anybody know what they were up to?
ReplyDeleteIn case you folks haven't already heard option 1 for salmon season has been accepted. Season will only close for the first 2 weeks of May and reopen on the 15th with a 20" size limit. Tight lines folks see ya on the water.
ReplyDeleteDon't know about the chopper but the ship was the Aspen, a buoy tender. Check out https://www.vesselfinder.com/ You don't have to buy the app (yet) but it will show a map with ships named in it. This is also helpful during a tuna run, as you can see where some of the larger boats are back-tacking.
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