Got to the lot by 9:30, place is filling up and I'm thinking gee has the bite been on and I've just been out of the loop?!? Launched in a quick methodical fashion and soon had multiple perfect sized jack smelt along with a few oversized drag pullers! Very Large Fleet was south so trolled my way down to OAP, weather is soo nice with a light
wind from the south.   



Got to the PB fleet ....solo kayaker .... they move further south and I hear the half day party boats heading off with a "at least we got one" for the boat. Waters pretty murkey nothing wants my live bait or trolled herring it's back to the wall into the current ... again drift the wall and the gap and break out the swimbait.....No. 

Fish survey lady at the landing at 3 says only one legal brought in at 25".

Wanted to give my newly installed fish finder a test run this evening but was taking care of my 7 year old daughter and only had an hour of light left.

Always wondered about this spot, seen bait here before and apparently it is connected to the bay.....so we gave it a shot.

Fish finder worked fine, got my second paddle on the new ride and confirmed there is bait. Really doubt there are any game fish, deepest spot was only 7'.

Was an interesting feeling to be so isolated while surrounded by thousands of people struggling through the Friday commute home.

Fat clumps of bait, birds and whale's near shore. Had considered bringing the cast net, probably could have stocked up on anchovies but would have needed the wet suit and booties as well.

Waters hella cold!

launched ~2:30 was a day of changing conditions. Kayakers at the ramp coming in warned of wind and I considered packing back up but decided to   give it a shot.

Drifted da sex herring across the flag pole hole several times.The wind and the tide were cancelling each other out so trolled a herring behind a dodger out to the outer wall, marked a lot a bait (presumably jack smelt) but no hits. Wind and white caps came up and rode them back several of the wind waves were quite sporty! It was exciting but packed up and headed out at 5:30 fishless again at ARW....

Went over to Berkeley marina, launched from the Cal Sailing side at 11 back by 3. Paddled out in perfect conditions and was able to make it to the end of the pier ruins, saw a ton of little white birds diving at bait but was unable to sabiki anything up. So I fished with brined herring until a PB guy came by and gave me some live anchovies [emoji106].

The fan turned on and I drifted the chovies and rode some sheep back on one long drift on the channel side. No bites [emoji53]  but I got to see the underside of the pier, the concrete has fall off the bottom and there is rusted rebar hanging down, looked pretty messed up wonder what it would cost to repair?

First attempt at Berkeley butt haven't been able to catch a hali on the East bay side of the bay yet, but it was nice to get out on the water and out of the heat!

Otter and I ran out to Tamales yesterday to do some fish'n.

Slept about two hours with visions of WSB and Halibut on the brain. Super foggy but burned off by 12. Bait up the wazoo and no large fish in sight (probably all full). Ran into Holy Toledo on the water, nice to meet you Holy.

Here are a few photos for your enjoyment   .

-Tsuri

Cruzed up to the mountains at the end of last month for some trouting and dadin' for three days.

First day we went to Bliss on the the east side of Lake Tahoe, what a spot. No yak because it was a day with the family. Man the trail heading twards Emerald Bay is something to see it travels along the cliffs sometimes with chain handrails to keep you from slippin off. There is some parking at the beach (at least there was on a Friday) and next time I will defenity bring the boats because the water is abot 30' from the parking lot.

Was a beautiful day and I tried out a new minnow trap with cat food for crawdads. My wife used the traditional bacon on string. Apparenty the traps should be soaked overnight because I got about five and bacon on a string got the remaining 25 or so. Also the catfood seemed to stink up the dads'.

Next day we headed over to Caples Lake and I finally cought my first trout from the yak. I don't know why but I seem to have more luck from shore (perhaps the giant yellow plastic boat scares the fish?). trolled around for several hours and it wasn't untill I was heading back to the car that I finally got one. Everyone says near the dam is the spot but when I have tryed there before I got nothing, this time we were on the other end.

Sunday came and we headed over to Echo Lake got the boat inspected for snails/alge at the launch and headed out. ended up with two more Brook trout  by the end of the day. All fish were cought trolling a Cast Master way back.

All in all not nearly as productive as the ocean but the color of the water and the quick swims were very nice, not sure what I can do to catch more fish but some thoughts are:

1) Start earlyer in the morning (perhaps dawn?).

2) Try a side trolling device that runs the lure away from the boat.

3) Try some other luers? Yarn? Feathers?


If anyone has any additional advice please let me know, defenity dont have this one figured out yet.

-Tsuri