Good luck out there!

I'm thinking about going myself tomorrow morning. It's all depending on how you guys do today, so I'm hoping to see your report and fish.

Are you guys mainly mooching? How deep?

I will be at Albion in the morning to catch some sea urchins and do some fishing afterwards. What should I go for? I've pretty much caught rockfish there but nothing else and was thinking whether or not it's worth it to try for salmon.

How far out would the salmon be? The seas have always been choppy there and so I never go too far out.

What conditions do you look for when fishing? Is it because of a mixed swell that causes fish to stop biting or moving away from the shore?

Also, where to fish? After launching, do you head out northwest or more inward southeast where it's more protected? Or does this again depend on the conditions?

Hi,

After being skunked at Capitola 2 times (well, not exactly, caught some kingfish, perch and anchovies, but nothing decent like halibut or rockfish), I've decided to try someplace that's not been fished out, i.e. pressured from the tens of rental skiffs that are found at Capitola.

I've been looking at some Bean Hollow and Pigeon Point reports, and they seem to be doing pretty well, for what it's worth. However, I've never actually launched from a beach site before and was wondering which place is easier to launch. And...I've looked up the swell forecast from stormsurf.com and NOAA - 4-6 feet swell on Saturday. Not sure if these are the conditions for launching, but I think that the smaller summer swells are as a good a time as any to learn.

If it's too difficult to launch at the center, I might just head to the edge of Bean Hollow where the waves are considerably smaller. Might have to carry/take the kayak a further distance though.

Yes, it is an early AM tide at around 6:15 AM. I'll be launching from Lawson's Landing, arriving there at around 5 and hopefully on the water by 5:30.

Hey,

I'm going clamming at Tomales this upcoming Sunday on the 19th. I'm also building those PVC tubes to prevent holes from caving in.

I already have others who are willing to split with us, but we'll have one extra (15" diameter, ~40" length) that will be for $40. For comparison, the ones at Lawson's Landing are $35 w/o tax and 12" diameter, 36" length.

I'm located in San Jose, so if anyone's interested in buying one, just let me know or PM me.

Darn, I live in San Jose, so Benicia is a little too far for me. I'm thinking about using other things besides PVC pipes, maybe old trash cans with the bottom cut out or other things.

Hi,

I'm planning on going clamming this weekend up at Tomales Bay / Lawson's Landing. I've been clamming before in Oregon and used shrimp pump guns to get gaper and horseneck clams. I was wondering if this technique would work as well? I found a YouTube video that pretty much describes what I did up in Oregon at Coos Bay.


Look around the 3:50 - 4:00 mark and you'll see that you pump the shrimp gun to loosen the dirt/mud around the hole created by the siphon and then you just wiggle your hand down there to get it. I'm wondering if the dirt/mud in Lawson's Landing is similar to this or do I really need PVC pipes and shovels.