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Topic: Anyone hitting the salt Sunday?  (Read 829 times)

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Usagi

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I think I'll be heading south to the ocean on Sunday, and I'm open to suggestions.  Santa Cruz, Stillwater...maybe even Garapata?  Anyone else headed out Sunday?
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Fuzzy Tom

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Coastside had a two reports yesterday of salmon caught around noon in 70-75 fow 35-40 otw between Lthse & Mile Bouy on purple haze hootchies/ purple haze flasher.  Could be a hoax, I suppose, but I'm biting and heading out of SC Harbor 6-6:30 Sunday 5/20/07.  I figure I only missed them the other day because I was foolishly bouncing the bottom thinking I'd get a "shsss... halibut".  With whales in Sacto, who says there aren't salmon in S.C.? 
Might be a little windy, but I've given up on believing microcast wind predictions - I think it comes down to whether the wind is up or down and the rest is guesswork.
  Ch 69/71 if 69 noisy.


Usagi

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Tom, I'm not sure I want to go fishing...I'd rather go "catching", so I think I'll skip on a try at salmon for now and go for rockfish instead.  :smt002  I'm thinking about MBK after reading Aaron's report on dabs and rockies, but as I've never launched there I may opt for Stillwater.  Guess I'll decide in the morning...
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This stuff is probably in the Places to launch  part of the forum, but here's my version:

S.C. Harbor: Easiest is to launch on the west side of the harbor - go south(toward the bay)  on Seabright Ave to left (east) on Atlantic Ave headed towards Aldo's Restaurant, turn down into the harbor, then go a couple of "blocks" back north toward the bridge over the harbor, the hand launch ramp is near the bridge.  Park in the "Visitor" parking, not in "Slip Renter's" places, costs $.75/hr, nickles, dimes or quarters, no limit. Public toilet under the bridge in the small buildings. You could park on Atlantic Ave for free and walk back to the ramp. There is another and newer hand launch ramp near Aldos and Atlantic where the kayak shed is, but most  or all of the lot parking in that area is for slip renters or the restaurant only. 

Monterey/ Del Monte Beach/MBK area: where the street to the south tees into the main drag (Del Monte?) at the Mc Donalds.  there is a small public lot there, but parking is limited to 4 hrs, quarters only I think.  I think it's $8 a day or so to park in the MBK lot, which you access by passing by the store and turning at the next right and doubling back.  Another option is to park on the street if you can.  I think, can't recall, you can park right on the main drag. If you look across toward the little lake opposite McD's, you'll see about 5 or 6 places without meters under some trees near some gov't offices.
I've also parked free a few blocks south of Mc D's near a law office on a side street.
  It's a decent ways down the sand beach to the water, wheels are handy.  Public toilet in MBK wash=off area.  Real protected launch.
 You could go clear around the wharfs and turn down to San Carlos St park, which is at the south end of all the hotels that lead north to Cannery Row.  There is a wheelchair ramp to the beach and then a short drag to the water.  Park inthe lot there, it's probably about $8 a day, you buy a ticket at a central machine, I think it might take credit cards and bills.  Parking tickets are about $40, so choose carefully.
   


 

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