I am new to kayak fishing and plan to fish the ARW Tournament. I would normally fish from my 23’ boat around Berkeley, op, Candlestick, bird cage, the rockpiles and other areas. Never really fished the ARW area. The closest I would get to there was anchoring near the yellow bouy (Oakland) and letting the kids catch sharks. I plan on getting over there to fish in a couple weeks, I’ll be by myself. When I was in my powerboat I never worried about the tidal flow direction and making it back to the dock. Any advice on this location would be greatly appreciated or if you can point me right direction to educate myself. Am I over thinking this? Ideally I would normally like to fish 2 hours before and after the tide changes.

I’ll be using a Radar 135 with a Helix Pedal drive.

If you have problems outside the wall, and the tides get too strong, you can always duck behind the wall on the inside.
There tends to be less current and wind behind the wall, and make you way back.

I normally recommend this for all new people fishing there. Remember the wind blows south so by the afternoon the wind will tend to push you back towards the ramp if you fish north.

Good luck --TLA

Registration for the ARW Tournament is now OPEN. Weather this year looks to be amazing, and the halibut will be showing up in Mass pretty Soon.

This year we even have a DJ for the music at the event, and seminars available for those who are not Kayaking but want to enjoy the festivities.

Come out, enjoy the day, have a bbq, share a drink and hopefully you will be the NEXT KING OF WALL!! 


See You guys all there!!

I may just go out there to kick it with you old folks! Lol. I’ll catch one with dental floss!! Haha  great to see you doing this again glen.

Cost going to be?

Will be same as last year $40

Hi all,

ok, i can believe it is that time of the year again, but here we go! I love seeing everyone at our annual tournament so let me go ahead and put the date out there so we can get this party started.

UPDATE: April 9, 2024
Art work is complete.
We are still looking for Sponsors for the event.  If you know people please forward them to ME.
Looking good and I'll open registration soon on my website




What: 2024 Alameda Rockwall Halibut Tournament
When: Saturday June 1, 2024
Time: 7a.m.-1 p.m.
Where: 190 Central Avenue
Alameda, Ca 94501 (Encinal Boat Ramp)

Main Event Page
https://thelostanchovy.com/2024-alameda-rock-wall-halibut-tournament/

REGISTRATION PAGE:
https://thelostanchovy.com/upcoming-events/registration-sign-ups/

TOURNAMENT RULES:
https://thelostanchovy.com/upcoming-events/arw-tournament-rules/

PARTICIPANTS LIST:
https://thelostanchovy.com/2024-arw-registered-participants/

We will be opening up a RFP for a non-profit that do good work for the community such as clean ups, education or promote fishing of some kind. I will provide an update on this process, but if you guys have an organization in mind, please send an me and email at Keith@thelostanchovy.com

I'll continue to update this thread as more information becomes available.
Mods please pin this post.

TLA

I just want to provide an update on the annual herring spawn. I stop doing the herring spawn thread here on NCKA but i do have an active one on my website and blog for those who are interested.

The herring are in the Bay. I got some decent reports from reliable sources that there are fish pushing in.  Can't say when they will spawn but just glad to know they are in the bay.  Good luck herring hunters. --TLA

Thanks for the update. I did notice some of the groups pushing for more MPAs and closing down certain areas for fishing.  Most noticeable is pleasure point. I’ll do some research on it and bring it up on my channel. I think these issues need to be brought up to light so people are aware of them and can speak up on them vs finding out about it last minute and getting all mad about it.

Thanks for bringing this up- TLA