Deep water rockfish opens with a bang in Northern California

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BY DAVE HURLEY

BODEGA BAY – Deep water rockfishing greater than 50 fathoms really opened on Tuesday, April 1, however the get together boats out of Half Moon Bay, San Francisco Bay, Bodega Bay, and Fort Bragg needed to till the weekend to search out climate circumstances to make the trek. When the ocean lay down over the weekend, it was greater than definitely worth the wait.

Out of Bodega Bay, Captain Rick Powers of Bodega Bay Sport Fishing was out on each Saturday and Sunday for the 23-mile trek to Rittenburg Financial institution for a mixed 52 limits of big vermilion, canary, and Boccaccio rockfish together with 64 ling cod to 25 kilos. Powers mentioned, “It was flat, glassy calm on the market, and it appears like we have now a number of extra days earlier than the climate comes up once more mid-week. There’s some superb information on the horizon with the opportunity of a piece of Cordell Banks being open through the subsequent deep-water window through the month of October. The opening is not going to be the whole part of the banks, however there’s a good portion of stable fish-holding floor there. This hasn’t been open for over 25 years, and for individuals who have the reminiscences of the ‘good previous days’ of Cordell, will probably be phenomenal.”

Captain Chris Smith of the Pacific Dream out of Berkeley was additionally out at Rittenburg over the weekend for limits of rockfish and a whopping 69 ling cod. As much as 30 Petrale sole have been landed by non-public boaters working the deep water.

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Additional north out of Fort Bragg, Captain Tim Gillespie of All Aboard Adventures reported limits of high quality rockfish and numerous sablefish working 425 ft in depth north of the harbor. Gillespie added, “Dungeness crab scores proceed to be stable with 14 limits on our final journey.” He can be operating rockfish and/or crab journeys within the coming weeks, and 50-fathom water is barely round 5 miles from the harbor.

Half Moon Bay additionally obtained within the act over the weekend with the Queen of Hearts out of Half Moon Bay Sport Fishing loading up with 24 limits together with a ling cod on Sunday. It’s a lengthy trek of over 20 miles to deeper than 50 fathoms.

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