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General Talk / Re: Bodega Bay Fishing?
« on: January 28, 2019, 06:04:47 PM »
Report time....
Perfect day to be out there. Partly cloudy, a bit of fog, and winds were light.
Got the pots soaking and started to fish. We were in about 50' of water. We had a sabiki with a lead head with a 5" soft plastic instead of a weight at the bottom. My buddy hooked up within 15 minutes. It was at LEAST 3". Seriously. Smallest flatfish I've seen. We fished for an hour or so, got a few other small bites, but nothing else landed. I suspect we should've tried deeper water, but it was fun knowing they were there.
The crabbing was good. We caught our limits in just a few hours of soaking. Used duck carcasses, squid, and some fish heads (not salmon) that we bought at an Asian market. Crabs didn't seem to have a preference to what was in the bait bag. Best pot had 5 keepers in just an hour soak. Most were the size where you need to measure, but we had a half dozen that were nice crabs. Our biggest one had no claws, so that was a mercy killing.
Perfect day to be out there. Partly cloudy, a bit of fog, and winds were light.
Got the pots soaking and started to fish. We were in about 50' of water. We had a sabiki with a lead head with a 5" soft plastic instead of a weight at the bottom. My buddy hooked up within 15 minutes. It was at LEAST 3". Seriously. Smallest flatfish I've seen. We fished for an hour or so, got a few other small bites, but nothing else landed. I suspect we should've tried deeper water, but it was fun knowing they were there.
The crabbing was good. We caught our limits in just a few hours of soaking. Used duck carcasses, squid, and some fish heads (not salmon) that we bought at an Asian market. Crabs didn't seem to have a preference to what was in the bait bag. Best pot had 5 keepers in just an hour soak. Most were the size where you need to measure, but we had a half dozen that were nice crabs. Our biggest one had no claws, so that was a mercy killing.