Fish Sniffer On Demand Digital Edition Issue 3611 May 12-26, 2017 | Page 36

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May 12-26, 2017
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HALF MOON BAY
Rockfish/Lingcod/Crab
Trips Offer Top Sport
During 2 Week Salmon
Closure
EL GRANADA — Rockfish,
lingcod, and Dungeness crabs
will be the story out of Pillar Point
Harbor for the next few weeks
as the only closure of the ocean
salmon season until October 31st
takes place from May 1st to 14th.
Once the season reopens on the
15th, the size limit will be lowered to
20 inches.
Sherry Ingles of Half Moon Bay
Sport Fishing said, “The winds
have been the limiting factor, and
when the conditions cooperate,
rockfishing has been outstanding.
When the conditions are less than
ideal, anglers are averaging from
limits to less than limits on our trips.
Salmon fishing continued to be slow
with the RipTide only having one
scratched bait on Saturday.”
The wind has been a constant
over the past few weeks, and the
Captain Tom Mattusch on the Huli
Cat and Captain Dennis Baxter
of the New Captain Pete took out
groups from the Monterey Bay
Veteran’s Association on Saturday.
Second captain Michael Cabanas
of the Huli Cat said, “Veteran Jordan
West from Menlo Park landed an
11-pound salmon on an anchovy,
but there wasn’t much action on the
water with only a few fish landed
from the boats
out of the
harbor.”
Baxter
said, “The
local skiffs
have been
working
around Buoy
1 south,
and
although the bite isn’t red hot, skiffs
have been picking up quality fish
on a regular basis trolling deep on
downriggers.
Further north in Pacifica, Rob
Chaney of the Rusty Hook has been
able to fish himself for striped bass
in the evenings, and he released a
29 pounder on a popper with a pearl
white body with fluorescent metallic
and a red head.
He said, “ I actually saw the fish
come up and inhale the lure in the
surface. I even went fishing on the
pier this week, but it is very difficult
to land a big striper off of the pier,
since the resident sea lion is waiting
and watching to see if someone
hooks up. You have to be fast to get
the best of him.”
-by Dave Hurley
MONTEREY BAY
Charter Boaters Nail
Limits Of Lingcod,
Rockfish
MOSS LANDING — Charter boat
anglers continue to bag limits of
lingcod and limits and near-l