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Paul Schuyler (Tuglife)
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Post Number: 9
Registered: 5-2004
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, August 05, 2004 - 10:17 pm: | |
Has anyone tried for salmon out of MB lately? I'm going to be doing a lot of halibut fishing in the next 3 wks, and trying for squid/seabass too, so I'm trying to decide whether to stow my downriggers for the season. |
Stacey Meacham (Stacey)
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Post Number: 28
Registered: 8-2003
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, August 05, 2004 - 7:00 pm: | |
Mercury News
Aug. 4, 2004
Marine protection program revived
FOUNDATIONS STEP IN TO HELP STATE SET UP RESERVES
By Paul Rogers
Mercury News
In a decision cheered by environmentalists and marine biologists,
the Schwarzenegger administration has decided to restart plans to
create the nation's first network of protected marine reserves off
California's coast, eight months after shutting the project down for
lack of money. ``We have a responsibility to act to try to improve
the health of our oceans,'' said California Resources Secretary Mike
Chrisman in an interview Tuesday with the Mercury News. ``This is a
high priority for us.''
The first area scheduled to have specific maps for such ``no-fishing
zones'' -- with a draft plan now due out by March 2006 -- will be
the central coast, Chrisman added, which is generally described as
the area from San Francisco to Hearst Castle. Chrisman said he will
name a ``blue-ribbon panel'' to oversee the issue by next month,
along with a 25-member science advisory group. They will hold public
meetings and study the biology and economics of reserves, with the
goal of putting them in selected areas across all state waters out
to three miles offshore by 2011.
The plan was required by a landmark 1999 state law, the Marine Life
Protection Act. It has been cited by marine biologists as a national
model -- and perhaps the best hope of arresting the steady decline
of dozens of types of fish in California waters. In January,
however, Chrisman sparked controversy when he confirmed the state
Department of Fish and Game would halt the plan, saying the state
lacked the $2 million needed to finish it by a 2005 deadline. One
Stanford University biologist described the move as ``like not
making a car payment because you can't afford the stamp.''
Now, however, a public-private partnership has brought the program
-- which has drawn lawsuits and protests from some fishing groups in
the past -- back to life. Details are still being worked out, but
several private foundations have pledged roughly $2.5 million a year
over the next three years to pay for scientific studies, public
meetings and other costs. This year, that money will be augmented by
$500,000 in state funding.
The contributing foundations are the David and Lucile Packard
Foundation, in Los Altos; the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, in
San Francisco; and the Homeland Foundation, in Laguna Beach.
``California's oceans are in trouble,'' said Michael Mantell, an
attorney for the Resources Legacy Fund, a Sacramento non-profit
coordinating the donations. ``The foundations care a lot about the
oceans' future and want to see sound science brought to bear on
their long-term management.''
Less than 1 percent of U.S. marine waters are off limits to fishing.
But several major studies, including a 2001 report by the National
Academy of Sciences and the 2003 Pew Oceans Commission report, have
recommended reserves as a key tool in reviving ocean species
depleted by pollution, overfishing and other threats.
``Historically, we have managed resources on a species-by-species
basis,'' said Mark Carr, an associate professor of marine ecology at
the University of California-Santa Cruz. ``We realize now that you
just can't manage for one species.''
The Pew report, for example, found that studies of more than 100
marine reserves in the past 15 years show that allowing whole
sections of the ocean a rest from fishing usually results in more
and larger fish, which produce more larvae. ``This is common-sense
stuff,'' said Warner Chabot, vice president of the Ocean
Conservancy, an environmental group in San Francisco.``Arnold
Schwarzenegger and Mike Chrisman are giving us an ocean ethic that
people will remember 100 years from now,'' he said.
Some fishing groups said they will oppose any effort at banning
fishing along the state's 1,100-mile coastline. Experts have
estimated that perhaps 10 to 20 percent of state waters would need
to be placed off-limits. ``There's not enough science. We need
better and more thorough data,'' said Bob Strickland, president of
United Anglers of California, a sport-fishing group in San Jose.
``We don't want closed areas. We don't think they are necessary.
''Strickland said tougher rules on commercial fishing such as bottom
trawling would accomplish more, and that costs to patrol no-fishing
zones would be prohibitive.
In 2002, the California Fish and Game Commission approved new rules
declaring 175 square miles of state waters around the Channel
Islands off Santa Barbara as a protected network of marine reserves.
The largest such ``no-fishing zone'' on the West Coast, the move was
designed to give endangered white abalone, rockfish, kelp forests
and an array of other species a chance to recover from years of
fishing. |
Wes (Slotroller)
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Post Number: 8
Registered: 10-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, August 05, 2004 - 10:55 am: | |
That is a home made job using the SSTs from CoastWatch (I think that is where terrafin gets theirs too) and forcing them into a free program called GPS track maker. You have to capture the coastwatch shots, edit them to define the lat/long, then crank it into track maker. It is a little complicated to get it all set up but then it is not too bad. It is handy because they can be posted without any infringments. I still vote for Terrafin, their program has many nice features. |
MSCOBB (Unregistered Guest)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, August 04, 2004 - 3:57 pm: | |
Slo Troller,
Where did you gte this sea temp chart you posted. It is one i ahve never seen. Can you please provid ethe link? Is it a pat site like terrifin
-Tuna Killer (Fish On!!) |
Dustin DesJardins (Farmerd)
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Post Number: 49
Registered: 8-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 03, 2004 - 4:07 pm: | |
Hey guys .... Lets watch the wind come Sat, Sun ..and make the call. Yes that warm water pushes in all the way inside the bouy, but no real hard breaks besides the one that is pushing in from outside the donut.
Eric I will keep in touch via email if your going to make the trip over during the week.
Steve ...contact me via email and will shoot you my cell number as well. If we get some good weather during the week and have some coverage we can do this.
Harrell, you play with that SeaWif photo from this morning? looked promising as far as blue water on the edge of the donut.
Its Aug guys ..... we need to get some coverage and go find these fish!
Dustin |
Wes (Slotroller)
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Post Number: 7
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 03, 2004 - 11:35 am: | |
Looks like a temp break runs well inside the donut to me! Don't know about the color?
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Steve Hendricks (Fishmaster)
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Post Number: 20
Registered: 8-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 03, 2004 - 10:27 am: | |
Team Avocation is in. Name the port and time.
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Eric Reenders (Otterdiver)
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Post Number: 11
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 03, 2004 - 9:00 am: | |
Dustin
Thinking about a run next wed/thurs depending... When are you thinking?
Eric |
Dustin DesJardins (Farmerd)
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Post Number: 48
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 03, 2004 - 7:47 am: | |
Now that the wind is up ..Looks like there is blue water from the tip of the donut up and out. Hard break that was outside the 1908 looks to be pushing in. If the weather comes down after the weekend we will run midweek. Coverage?
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Andrew Dunn (Drew_2452)
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Post Number: 14
Registered: 12-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 02, 2004 - 9:18 pm: | |
Thanx Harrell That is awsome I have heard of a place called Hollow Point but couldnt find it any ideas where it might be. Thanx again |
miller 1 (Unregistered Guest)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 02, 2004 - 8:00 pm: | |
Hello im a new at the ocean fishing we come from Bakersfeild Ca and go out at Morro Bay. We have had some good luck with the rock cod and lings. We would like to try for albacore and I was wondering if any of you had some helpfull info.we are going this Sat. Thank you for your time.
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HARRELL kIMBALL (Catmakai)
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Post Number: 129
Registered: 8-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 02, 2004 - 6:38 pm: | |
Drew: Here is a link to maptech,this page is of Estero Bay. You can zoom and print and it is free.
http://mapserver.maptech.com/homepage/index.cfm?lat=35.42944&lon=-120. 92917&scale=250000&zoom=50&type=1&icon=0&searchscope=dom&CFID=413149&C FTOKEN=59476965&scriptfile=http://mapserver.maptech.com/homepage/index .cfm&latlontype=DMS |
Dustin DesJardins (Farmerd)
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Post Number: 47
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 02, 2004 - 4:35 pm: | |
Harrell ... My email is locking up because its full with the information you wanted. Tomorrow morning I will either post it here or get it to you via email. Also some very good information concerning the green on the SeaWifs as to what it means and how to determine if its "good" water or not. I'm glad Harrell got us all to start looking at this information because I truely believe that its going to help all of us in the longrun. There is a big thank-you going out to a member of Allcoast web site that is helping us with chart overlays for our area with the SeaWif information. This information will be shared with whomever wants it, just shoot me an email. Good things coming ...... I feel it!
Dustin |
Drew (Unregistered Guest)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 02, 2004 - 3:38 pm: | |
Does anyone know where I can download a decent fishing map of the Morro to San Simeon area Thanx For any info Andrew Dunn adunn@bak.rr.com |
HARRELL kIMBALL (Catmakai)
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Post Number: 128
Registered: 8-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 02, 2004 - 8:06 am: | |
Nice fish Stacey!
Got the SeaWifs image this morning and the water in our area is much cleaner than the last shot. No "red" at all and much less "yellow" but there is still "green" out to 60-70nm. Still not sure how dirty/clean the green scale is.
Info for rockfishing; F&G site says 180 ft is ok for the month of August. |
Stacey Meacham (Stacey)
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Post Number: 27
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, August 01, 2004 - 6:04 pm: | |
opening day ling and red caught near cambria. |
HARRELL kIMBALL (Catmakai)
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Post Number: 127
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, August 01, 2004 - 12:53 pm: | |
More on SeaWiFS;
As Bob said we got good SST's last eve/night and now we need a good color picture which should happen today. Just checked the visible satellite and the fog has cleared out early and we should get a SeaWifs pass in about an hour which will be in a later Seawifs post tonight or tomorrow.
The Seawifs satellite is a sun syncronized noon scan which means we need clear skies at around noon in our area in order to get a good shot at ocean color.
Looking at the SST; the closest and best (imho) break is at 35:35 & 122:05, about 60nm. The area SW of the 1908/1978 about 5 miles has good potential and I will be watching to see if it is coming our way.
Now the bad news ! The computer models show 15-35 kts of wind starting tuesday for most of the week. |
Bob Hather (Windfall)
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Post Number: 64
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, July 31, 2004 - 10:01 pm: | |
Virg's caught 11 albacore over 100 mi out. The weather was rough today on the outside. One boat out of Monterey caught 3 albies 35 to 40 mi west.We got a good clear SST picture and it looks like 50 mi west of Morro Bay has a decent temp break but I didn't get a water clearity picture so can't tell if the water is green. I'll be rockcod fishing Sunday.
Bob |
Steve Hendricks (Fishmaster)
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Post Number: 19
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, July 31, 2004 - 4:10 pm: | |
Fished MB Habor today for halibut. Caught 1 short, lost another at the boat, and had a couple raked baits. Great bait and weather. Saw another boat at the cleaning station with 3 nice halibut. They were fishing in the bay also.
Hopefully the tuna will come in soon!!! Any reports from Virg's or Patriot???
lat,
steve |
Steve Hendricks (Fishmaster)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, July 30, 2004 - 5:27 pm: | |
Any reports of salmon still around? Haven't seen anyone post a report in a while, so I was wondering. Going to fish MB Harbor tomorrow in my skiff for halibut. Any one else heading out? I'll post a report.
best fishes,
steve
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NakedFish (Unregistered Guest)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, July 30, 2004 - 1:19 pm: | |
Thought I'd post my results from Santa Cruz. Went out Tues. 69 miles @238 and trolled straight back (on my friends Farallon 25). Caught 7 LFT at 68, 65, 45, 42, and 39 mi. out. There were two clear breaks. I just couldn't wait anymore in MB but hopefully they'll be here soon! |
Stacey Meacham (Stacey)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, July 29, 2004 - 9:53 pm: | |
Graylight,
I applaud your efforts and your long run to prospect for the lft. We turned around early and didn’t push the 60-70 miles that you did. I tried to call you on the radio, but was out of range. It seems that there are a few of us that are willing to expend the time and fuel to go search for the albacore. Most people operate on the “second mouse gets the cheese” method of fishing or don’t have the range to fish outer waters, understandable. I wish more people were on the hunt.
The availability of bait is a factor for those of us that prospect for lft consider when making a trip. We need to keep them in business/happy for people to look for the fish. Please be generous with them. A tip of 10-20$ is not unreasonable, more if you can afford it.
I’ll be fishing Leffingwale this Sunday for rockfish in the little aluminum. I hope to hang a big ling or hali. I’ll post.
Stacey
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Stuart Merrill (Graylight)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, July 29, 2004 - 7:44 pm: | |
Thanks to Virges and Norm on the princess.They were great to work with last Saturday.Darby posted that they woud share info and now its my turn to call them in. Stuart 23' Parker Graylight |
Chris on the Ichiban (Unregistered Guest)
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yeah, we would rather fish outta Morro Bay and live at home instead of Camping on the boat in Moss landing. Hope that water turns blue and a harder break forms. We sure like fishing at Winchells instead of the Davidson, Rod, etc...
the help you got last year was probably from Jocelyn. He was second ticket on the Ichiban last year. late. cm. |
jayelder (Unregistered Guest)
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Harrell:
Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us!
Jay |
Dustin DesJardins (Farmerd)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, July 28, 2004 - 9:32 pm: | |
Chris ...Just wanted to say thank you for all the help last season. I do my best to drop the named "Ichiban" ever time I hear of someone looking for a charter. Also thank you to Darby and Virg's landing as well as the captain of the Princess last Saturday for sharing info. Something to be said about our area up here when the sport boats and privates can work together. Lets hope that water cleaned up for the weekend and it busts wide open!
Dustin
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Chris on the ichiban (Unregistered Guest)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, July 28, 2004 - 6:57 pm: | |
The temp break almost due west of Monterey is killer. Not like the mushy stuff down here. We have been mooching salmon on the Ichiban with mixed results. Just aching for tuna cause we're hearing jigboat chatter on the radio. It's seventy miles offshore to the area where the jigboats are fishing, but the tempbreak is only about sixty. I hope we have tuna on the donut this year, but if it's like last year, we're gonna stay in Moss Landing (where the fish are!) Good luck to the party boats and skiffs goin tuna prospecting this weekend. late. cm. |
fishhunter (Unregistered Guest)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, July 28, 2004 - 1:47 pm: | |
Any one know how the weather is gonna be sat and sunday?Will these be good days for halibut fishing? |
Blackie Jr. / Killer B's (Unregistered Guest)
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Sunday August 1st, the rock fishing is open again. |
Eric Reenders (Otterdiver)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 27, 2004 - 6:19 pm: | |
As of 6pm. the PSL bouy is reading 61.2 degrees. Sure would be nice if we could get a sat shot and blue water! |
HARRELL kIMBALL (Catmakai)
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Post Number: 126
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, July 26, 2004 - 10:52 am: | |
Jay:
Here is the link. Just set the zoom and click on the area of interest. The image can be changed from "chlorophyll" to "true ocen color" but the true color image is not much use because of the resolution. The chlorophyll is much better but still the scale, even at 64 zoom, is pretty wide. So it is difficult to get an accurate lot/lon. On 64 zoom the image is about 100 miles square but with a scale and a bearing overlay you can get pretty close. On the chlorophyll image the colors range from purple = deep blue and crystal clear to red = green and dirty. Based on the observed inputs that I received over the weekend my conclusions are that the yellow/red areas indicate "dirty" water and the blue/purple areas indicate "clean" water and green is probably a greenish color but fairly clean. This is all preliminary and as time goes by we will get better at reading the images. The term "dirty" really means a high concentration of phytoplankton which in reality is a good thing because that is what feeds the bait fish.
http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi/seawifs_subreg_l2.pl
The color scale is from purple = .01 mg /m3 to red = 50mg/m3 with green around 1mg/m3
Let me know if you need anymore info. |
Blackie Jr. / Killer B's (Unregistered Guest)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, July 26, 2004 - 10:22 am: | |
We went out of MB on Saturday for the Halibut and ended the day with three fish. We were just north of Cuyucos in 40 feet of water. Both Virg's boats were working the same area and I heard that they had four fish on one boat. At least there is something to catch until the rock fish are open again. Hope the tuna move a little closer soon. Thanks to all who are keeping the updates comming on the LFT. Fuel is much too expensive now to run a bunch a zero trips for tuna. |
Jay Elder (Unregistered Guest)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, July 26, 2004 - 7:11 am: | |
Harrell:
Can you provide us with the web page addresses you are using for the color data. Also could you expand a bit on how you interrupt the data so that we might also use this information? Thanks. |
HARRELL kIMBALL (Catmakai)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, July 25, 2004 - 2:42 pm: | |
Follow up on the SeaWiFS chlorophyll and true color images.
I have heard that there is a commercial site like Terrafin in developement for this data that will be available to us with much better resolution. Based on the images and observations that I received this weekend, I feel even without the better resolution it is a very good tool. It won't tell us where the fish are but it will tell us where they are not ! I posted that the water at the 1908 was green and later found out that it was clean. Green water would have contradicted the data on the SeaWiFS image but clean water would have confirmed it which it did. There were reports of water color in the Monterey area that were also in concert with the chlorophyll images. I will be watching the images closely from now on to see if, when and where the water cleans up before our bigger "September" albacore get here !
Thanks to all the guys that went looking and for their inputs. |
Josh (Unregistered Guest)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, July 25, 2004 - 1:34 pm: | |
Fished out of moss on saturday.Got in the water at four in the morning and hooked are first salmon at 7:00 a.m. ended up with four up to 20 pounds.Heard of many boats catching fish up to 30-35 pounds. |
Dustin DesJardins (Farmerd)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, July 25, 2004 - 11:30 am: | |
Ran 42-47 miles ...boxed the area above the donut ....TONS of bait, life and green water. Good temp break out there and looks fishy ...just wrong color water. Will give it a few more weeks and we will be back out there.
Dustin |
Bob Hather (Windfall)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, July 24, 2004 - 10:06 pm: | |
I hear that Monterey is the place for albacore with boats returning with over 30 fish out about 50 mi. Virg's caught only two albies today out about 70 mi at 10 and 15. The Portside halibut tournament produced 27 flaties up to 28 lbs. I'll pass on the tuna until it gets a little better.
Bob |
Stacey Meacham (Stacey)
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No LFT today, turned around @25 miles due to green water. |
Anthony Ey (Pasogmc)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, July 24, 2004 - 12:49 pm: | |
My buddy Dave and I will be heading out of MB at daybreak. Hopefully some albies are found 60 miles out or so. We will be on his boat the "Sea Saw" 25 Davis Bahia. Give us a call and maybe we can work together to find those little buggers.
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HARRELL kIMBALL (Catmakai)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, July 23, 2004 - 12:35 pm: | |
Just got a report that Patriot's boat is at the 1908 and the water is green with no fish yet. I think Steve also checked out the elbow area with the same results. Hope Darby and you guys find them tomorrow. good luck ! |
Dustin DesJardins (Farmerd)
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Thanks for the heads-up Darby. Will monitor 19 in the morning ....will yell if it happens.
Dustin |
Darby Neil (Darby)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, July 23, 2004 - 11:20 am: | |
Ken Scott on the Freedom and Virg's Princess will be running offshore tonight for the tuna. If anyone wants to work with us locating these little buggars we'll be on channel 19. We plan to start at 60 miles strait out and work up. |
Drew (Unregistered Guest)
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Hey guys are the salmon still around I am going out Friday out of Morro does anyone have any # to share for a good starting point. Might chase some halibuts any info would be appretiated. |
Stacey Meacham (Stacey)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, July 22, 2004 - 6:50 pm: | |
We will be running for LFT early Saturday morning. Hoping to be on the grounds at daybreak, Depending on what time we get bait.
Dustin, I will try to make contact with the bait guys on Friday and I’ll shoot you a call or email to coordinate coverage.
Harrell, I would certainly appreciate any input you might have regarding our hunt as I still haven’t spent the time to learn how to extract/interpret color data from the seawif site. I’ll shoot you a call with a report on our way back in (when we get back into cell phone range.)
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Dustin DesJardins (Farmerd)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, July 22, 2004 - 5:34 pm: | |
Will let you know Bob .... Fog is going to stop us from getting another SST before we run most likely. Plan is to run just uphill from the Donut and see what happens. Will post when I return.
Dustin |
Bob Hather (Windfall)
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Windfall and Carman are planning to run 60 mi plus on Sun. Let us know how Saturday's albacore trips go.
Bob |
Dustin DesJardins (Farmerd)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 7:34 pm: | |
Well Harrell we are running on that water come Saturday morning. Hoping that the Billy Boy has some decent bait ...planning on baiting up at 5:30 and getting to the break at grey light. We will be on 68 if anyone else decides to run.
Dustin
Boat: Fucarwee 22' Cabo
Ch 68
Give us a call |
HARRELL kIMBALL (Catmakai)
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Follow up on the SeaWiFS image.
The scale is from .01 (purple) to 50 (red) milligrams of chlorophyll / cubic meter of water . The green area is about 1,the yellow area about 3 and the red is 10-50. I spent some time comparing the Terrafin SST to the SeaWiFS image trying to get a lat/lon comparison. The plume of warm water on the SST overlays almost exactly with a green area on the SeaWiFS image that pushes into the yellow/red areas. So my conclusion is that the plume of water coming in from the donut is probably reasonably clean. Need onsite observations to verify if it is.
Like Dustin says the weather still looks good for Sat. |
Dustin DesJardins (Farmerd)
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Guess just hoping that the plume of water that extends towards the PSL bouy heats up against that leading edge when the wind stops. Diablo forcast just lowered the wind for Sat-Sun to light-variable. |
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I'm as anxious as the next guy, but this SST just doesn't excite me very much. While the water may be warm, there is no well defined break. |
HARRELL kIMBALL (Catmakai)
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http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi/seawifs_subreg_l2.pl
This is the SeaWiFS site. There is an excellent picture of our area this morning. Go to the site , set the zoom factor to 32 and click on our area. Good clear picture of pretty dirty water !! On the color scale blue is clean and red is dirty, I think ! |
HARRELL kIMBALL (Catmakai)
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Terrafin just posted an SST image taken at 5pm today that really looks promising !! Especially since there has been 20+ kts of wind on it all day. There is a plume of 60 degree water starting about 20 nm out of Avila that is connected to the donut, the 1908 and probably all the way to China. Waiting to see the SeaWIFS chlorophyl picture to get a reading on how clean it is. This is just about what the SST looked like last June (03) when we were catching albacore.
The UCAR computer models show the wind coming down friday so there should be an opportunity to check it out this weekend. Avila will be crowded due to the halibut derby. |
Dustin DesJardins (Farmerd)
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OH and look forward to hearing the "Avocation" out on the grounds again this year! |
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Steve, next time may want to run uphill if there is no wind ......seem we always do better with the incoming and outgoing current up above the pea-farm. Hoping to get outside ..but if not we will be looking for some new flatty grounds up around San Simeon, usualy fish flattys out of PSL. Will keep you all posted |
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Fished out of PSL today for halibut. Had great 4-6 inch chovies, no wind and great weather, but no fish. We fished from the bay down to Shell beach for not even a pick up. The water was pea green with 1-2 feet of vis. Tons of bait everywhere.
Dustin,
Going out of town this weekend, but would be ready to go tuesday. Good luck if you go on Sunday.
best fishes,
steve |
Dustin DesJardins (Farmerd)
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Latest SST looks promising ..... with the NW winds coming down after wed that 58-59 degree water that is wrapped around the PSL bouy could be warming up. As Harrell mentioned no real "hard" breaks ....but 60 degree water on the donut .... wind down to 10kts by sunday. Will make the call night before we leave ....any coverage this weekend? |
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http://seafood.ucdavis.edu/pubs/albacorefishery.htm
Excellent reading on albacore. |
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MIKE, IF YOU LAUNCH OUT OF MOSS THEY HAVE GOOD PARKING BUT YOU MUST BE IN LINE BY 4 A.M OR GOOD LUCK. THE SAME WITH SANTA CRUZ. WATERMELON APEX, PURLPE HAZE HOOCHIE, AND RSK WITH ANCHIVIEC WORK, GOOD LUCK. DEN |
Dustin DesJardins (Farmerd)
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Was planning on making a run outside towards the donut for a look around on Saturday. With the wind still in the forcast may have to make a change of plans. Are the squid boats still up north towards San Simeon? Possibe look around for WSB if I have to call off the outside stuff.
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Mike
Check out http://www.baysidemarinesc.com/
Moss has been a hotter bite SC larger fish. Moss is a lot easer to launch and park!
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HARRELL kIMBALL (Catmakai)
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SST/weather/albacore
Pretty good SST last eve but still no hard breaks. The elbow area looks the best at about 60 miles. The water is warm enough with a lot of 60 + but don't know if it is clean enough out there. The reports this weekend indicated green water out to 25 miles and beyond.
The wind is forecast to blow until fri-sat and then it looks good into next week.
Never heard anymore about the carcasses at MB so figure it was San Diego or elsewhere fish that were just cleaned there. Albacore are being caught from the guide north with Oregon wide open. Our albacore will probably show up in September when the wind and upwelling settle down which is usually what happens here in normal years, if there is such a thing "normal". |
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Going up North this weekend for salmon, wanted to know if it would be better to go out of Moss or Santa Cruz? And also what are the hot setups to use? Maybe even some headings to take? |
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Psl bait report: (Mello Boy) Deke has 5"- 6"anchovy sardine mix. |
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Thanks Dustin
She has some experience but is new to us. I really liked my last boat but just couldn't pass up the deal we go on her. This will be a lot better boat for taking my kids out in a couple years. She has twin AQ125's and 280 outdrives. Not my favorite gas engines but they do sip fuel... 2nmpg at 20knots. That's close to what my little boat got and this one weighs twice as much. Still have a bit of refiting work to do on her but she's going to be sweet!
Can't wait to get tuna blood on her! Let me know if you want a ride some time.
Good luck Sat!
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Dustin DesJardins (Farmerd)
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Nice work Eric. We are running outside towards the donut on Sat.....depending on weather. Will keep you posted. Oh ..and congrats on the new Farallon ... nice rigs!
Dustin |
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we also ran up to santa cruz friday afternoon. stayed at the rv park in the north harbor and got an end tie for the boat. fished till dark on friday for two salmon 22# and 26# at 52 and 56. the same area kicked out limits of the same size fish on saturday and sunday in about fifteen minutes fishing time. all fish came on a green flasher lime green hoochie at 140' in 200'. spent the rest of saturday at the boardwalk and got home early sunday. lots of fun with great weather. about 100 bucks for the rv park and end tie. pretty good deal for a family weekend outing. thanks bayside marine for no bs reports! |
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Josh
The bechold bait rotators are a relativly new product available directly from Jerry Bechold here: http://www.fishcatcher.com/FishCatcher/fishcatcher.html#BULLET_BAIT
Great, easy to use holder that gives the bait a fantastic tight spin. Puts out lots of flash! I used the medium size saturday and it is perfect for medium chovies or herring. Color didn't matter much but the orange and the clear got bit a little better. These things are hot!
Give Jerry a call and let him know I sent you. I was able to get a great discount on 5 of them ( about the price of 2 RSK's) Will be ordering more!!!
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Hey eric whats up on the bechold rotator.what is it,and where did you get it? |
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Josh
You could also stay at the Atrichoke Inn in Castrovile. Relativly cheap and clean, about 2 miles from the Moss ramp.
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Moss limits for 5 Sat
Long day... woke up at 12:45 am for the tow over. First fishing trip on the new boat. Arrived at the ramp at 4:30 to find a 1/4 mile long line and discover we left the chovies in the freezer at home. Line went quick and the guy at the ramp had some nice 5-6" herring so we were in business headed out the jaws into the fog by 5:30. Crawled out to 49/49 and dropped in on scattered bait had scratch fishing for 4 fish by 8:30 trolling up to 49/50ish. Decided to troll down to the south canyon wall and discoved the fleet parked about 2 miles out in the middle of the canyon. Continued past to the south edge and followed the edge toward the stacks. Found a nice concentration of fish about 1/4 mile inside the cans and had a steady pick of low teens. Devil fish came on a tripple hook-up at 11:00. 10 fish to 16lb dropped a few. Nothing big but nice for the first trip with a bunch of rookies. 1 fish on watermelon apex 3 on red RSK and 6 on the Bechold Rotator... nice rig! ordered them late monday afternoon and had them in the mail tuesday. Thanks Jerry!
Great day on the water! Best way to break in a boat!
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Josh,
I know a few other places to stay within 30-40 miles of Moss which are pretty cool. Shoot me an email and I'll give you more info. SDM
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Thanks for the feedback stacey! |
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Want to fish moss and need to know directions and if there is any motels close to stay.
Josh,
to get to moss landing from San Luis, take hwy 101 north to hwy 183 in salinas. Take 183 thru castoville to hwy 1 go north on 1 to moss landing the launch is 1/4 mile north of the bridge and the power plant. The line for launching runs along the South bound shoulder. There is a packing facility a couple of miles north (and on the left) with a wide turn around area. There is a machine for launch tickets near the bathrooms.
The closest hotel would be the holiday inn express in watsonville (parking would be tight with a boat.) Your best bet may be the Best Western Salinas valley inn (not the bestwestern john jay which is within a couple hundred feet)
Both hotels are on the North bound Market Street exit near the in-n-out burger. Make sure you lock up your gear if you decide to stay in either town.
good luck, Stacey
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Want to fish moss and need to know directions and if there is any motels close to stay. |
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I went looking for albacore on saturday south about 45 miles towards the Rodriguez with no luck. I was relying on thursday's SST which was unfortunately outdated by Saturday. Terrafin had a good shot on friday night, but for some reason didn't post it until sometime saturday.
Yesterday's and today's satellite shots show a broad area of promising water (60+ degrees) parallel to our coastline. It's about 50 miles out off Morro Bay and all points North, but extends in from the Donut towards Avila within easy range. The view is partially blocked, but it looks like if you left from PSL towards the donut, the water is showing 59 degrees as close as 20 miles and 60 degrees at about 30 miles. I'm not sure if that water is connected to the outside, but it definitely is connected at about 45 miles out to the donut.
Someone needs to check this water out! |
