Now that looked like a good trip!  Way to go guys.  How far out and how deep were you guys fishing?  Never fished Bean Hollow, except from shore back in my teens.  Plenty of structure on the bottom? 

Way to go...  Nice looking fish.

That was awesome!  Beautiful fish!  WTG 

I did run into the guy wearing the shorts, etc.  He was tossing crab nets and had just started when we met...  Nice guy, but yeah he wasn't dressed for the ocean.  He was crabbing in close to the South jetty and was not having much luck. 

I launch North of the actual marina... take my time gearing up early in the a.m., and don't have to deal w/ boats or any kind of rush to get in/out of the water.  As with most of us...  I just want to relax and hopefully catch something for dinner. 

4/23

Fished Half Moon Bay today, really calm in the morning.  No wind and things were looking good.  Waited a couple of hours before the fish started biting...  Caught one small ling, had a BIG ling stripping line that I never saw... spit the bait before I got him close enough to see I spose... and almost lost my crab trap (tangled on the bottom in rocks?!)... 1 small dungee that I tossed back and 1 rock crab that i kept . 

Ended the day w/ 1 ling, 1 cabby, and 1 greenling...  Beautiful weather... 

As schwarzanegeer would say...  I'll be back.....!!!

We hit Santa Cruz bright and early... Water was like glass early in the morning...very little wind.  Didn't have our first strike until around 7:45am.  Threw back a bunch of small blacks, kelp rockfish, and  caught a ling 2" too small.  Wind picked up around 11:00am and we eventually called it. 

Braddah Darren landed the keeper ling...  From what I heard... he's already eaten it and we'll clearly need to get back out soon to start filling the freezer! 

I hear ya... some of the rock crabs must go to yoga class, they'll reach from all angles just to try and grab hold of a finger... 

Good looking catfish!  Love eating em too