Tue morn brickyard....

Fished the islands after launching off mcnears. didn't get anything but I was metering tons of fish. wish I had live bait.

Headed over to the brickyard and picked up a good one (26") along the way infront of the gravel plant.  Later I got another inside the brickyard but it was a dinker. Kinda slow and I didn't see any action with the other boats.    oh yeah...I swear that 3rd brick tower ( the tallest one) leans a bit toward the southeast....


I think steve is right that the stripers are heading out of the bay to the beaches- Im hearing that too and seeing a lot more guys casting when Im surfing (ocean beach).  Right now there are huge holes at taraval and judah. The old timers around here always say that April is when you catch the big ones coming out of the bay. I might have to hit it tomorrow with the casting gear.



jeff

Keep us posted / thanks for the report Jeff  

What are the chances of launching from Ocean Beach and just trolling behind the surf line? Is there ever a calm day out there? Doesn't seem like it but I'm no local.

Though it seems like there's always endless waves. In a hobie, it may be doable as you could fight the fish and still peddle to keep out the surf zone.

There are definitely chances of launching at Ocean Beach. Although optimum cake walk days will be far and few between, and probably not until at least June, it is possible. It is still entirely possible on other days but I think you would have to slightly modifiy your launch mentality...and leave your teddy bear at home.

For one, you would want to minimize weight & gear..... but you'd probably be fishing only stripers anyway which doesn't require much gear... or maybe a halibut drift. Secondly, you would have to really batten down the hatches and plan on getting tossed. On the way back in I would likely push my yak in letting the waves bring it to the beach and just swim in instead of getting looped.

I have found that method very effective. Two years ago I was in baja at a nasty top-to-bottom shorebreak. I found that it was much easier to push my yak out in between sets and then just swim out to it. Same thing on the way in. Your yak has less chance of getting hammered/crimped  when you're not in it since its more buoyant and gets blasted in.

I have spent  probably the last five years doing the beach casting thing with the local crew. Let me tell you, it is very challenging fishing with tons of donuts. The runs are concentrated and quick. If you are there you're a hero-maybe, if not a zero. Last year was particularily frustrating- I was a zero. I lost the few hookups that I had and ended up with a thrown out shoulder from all of the casting...boy was I pisssssed!!

The worst part of last season was that we continually saw the party boats backed into the surf and killing it. Bass Tub, Huck Finn..etc would back into the surf just another fifty yards out from our furthest casts and clean house. Yeah they had live bait but still!!! There have been plenty of productive years here just casting/wading in the surf. Last year was just too frustrating to watch these guys drop the net right in front of me so I vowed to take the yak out.

All last season while Linda Mar was going off the party boats were nailing stripers off Ocean Beach/Funston. Regularly, on my trips to Linda Mar, I would see a number of boats backed into the Funston area.  On several occasions I saw 8 to 10 party boats backed into the Funston beaches. They were about a 1/4 mile apart all of the way to the Pacifica apartments.

Woman is home....gotta go...all gramatically errors courtesy of pabst blue ribbon...more later