MBK 9/27

Arrived at MBK at about 645 am and there was someone already there which is most unusual because my brother and I always hit it first. It was Allen getting ready to teach his fishing class that hopefully went well. Launched to a real mellow swell though there was a slight shore break in surprisingly clear conditions. Paddled right, twords the monterey beach hotel, past the huge kelp ball and fished all around from 20' to 55'. First fish was caught 5 mins after we started at 8:10 and we basically saw steady action to 1:00 on the rockfish.

The first fish.

About an hour into it a fog bank starts to come in and it looks like the sun is gone for good, but it burned off an hour later.

My first rockfish double.

One blue.

And one brown.

A batray (I think) that my brother caught in 25 FOW. It put up a hell of a fight.

Last fish of the day which was also the big RF of the day.


At the end of the day I caught 8 rockies and my brother caught 2 plus the ray. All rockfish were CPRed in less than 60' most at around 50'. No baro stress on any of them because I've started to reel them up slower and I'm fishing shallower. Used the good old dropper loop and swimbaits with cut smelt and frozen squid. We saw all of the WSB fishermen out past  100'. One yakker came in with a huge fish (WSB) that looked like it was about 50#. I was jealous. Sorry no details or pics.


-Tim

Was that you that I talked with briefly as you guyys were cleaning up and loading in A small pickup next to the pay booth? Anyway thanks for the report! .....Andy

what the heck? this is the second post i've read where people are fishing for rockfish. I thought the season was closed. It is up here.

The Monterey South Central region always has a long season and allows for deeper fishing. It used to close Nov 30 but this year it closes Nov 15 (as they gave us an extra 15 days on the front-end, instead).
http://www.dfg.ca.gov/marine/bfregs2009.asp#southcentral1

lucky dogs! i'm jealous

I'll trade you November rockfishing for March steelheading! 

wish i could. 95% of my fishing is ocean.and this time of year only got the bay.

Was that you that I talked with briefly as you guyys were cleaning up and loading in A small pickup next to the pay booth? Anyway thanks for the report! .....Andy

Yeah that was probably us if it was a grey truck. The guy with the giant wsb had leaft just before you got there.

I'll trade you November rockfishing for March steelheading! 

So would I. Or maybe some sturgeon fishing anytime would be worth it.

How about vicarious international big game internet fishing from the comfort of our offices?