south bay sharkies

Launched at 7AM near palo alto airport off of embarcadero road.  Tide was low, not much water to launch in.  Tried to stick to the channel out of the launch site to keep from getting stuck in the mud.  

After about an hour of paddling i made it out to the old railroad bridge south of dumbarton bridge/pier.  First three drops I caught Leopard sharks in less than 60 seconds.  I drifted south in the incoming tide and met up with the DFG checking stamps and stuff.  He said some dudes been catching stripers off the pier.  The action stopped for an hour or so and ended with the last 2 hours with non-stop sharkie action.  Squidies in the water for only about a minute without hits.  Must have caught about 20 sharks, biggest one near 34 inches.  

No bat rays this trip.

cool! "squidies" are dead squid? how do you rig them? and how do you release them?

squidies are frozen squid, usually cut the big one in half and sink them to the bottom with a 4 oz lead weight.  

the sharks hardly ever swallow the hook.  Although their teeth are many, they are pretty small, i've never been injured or bitten.  i'm more worried about them barfing up their lunch on me than their bite.