half moon bay - 11/7/14

half moon bay - 11/7/14

not much fishing this season.  this is only the second time i've had my boat out.  way too many things going on, just getting tugged in too many directions.  seems like everyone else is in the same situation, too.  well, we're taking a day off, knowing that it will put us three days behind, but boy was it nice to get out on the water!!!!!   ;D

5am!  we were supposed to go out of monterey for a run down to point sur, but the winds were predicted to hit 20 knots.  half moon bay was the back up.



we got there at 5:45am and quickly got the boat into the water.  good thing, because in 15 minutes there was a line of 6 boats behind me!



it was supposed to blow 6 to 9 knots all morning.  it started out calm enough for a 25 knot run down hill to san gregorio, but it started getting bumpy.  crew for the day consisted of harry franklin and roger shu to starboard, .....



.... and bryan young and ben tsutaoka to port.



i snuck in ahead of harry and stole this lingcod.  i used a really simple rig, consisting a 1/0 treble on a 3 foot leader with a whole squid and an 8 ounce weight on a slider. 



roger stuck a nice one, not sure what he was using.



and harry finally got a ling, on a shrimp fly!



the starboard side of the boat was pretty hot.  not much happened to port, not sure why!  we finished out the day wiith 4 lings, 2 cabs, and 48 assorted rockfish.  we got bounced around pretty badly on the way back because the winds had really picked up.  i ended up running the motors all day.  i had at least one motor in slow idle reverse to slow down our drift.  it made for bouncy fishing.  still alot of fun. 



we had a great time rockcod fishing.  everyone else is out for crab right now, but i never run pots off of my boat.  crab pots are really hard on a boat.  i'm happy enough just fishing for now.  thanks for coming along with us!  alan

Thanks Alan. Too much  reel repair and not enough fishing. Good to see Roger got some time on the salt. Those babies really cut into fishing.

Nice!!!

Looking good Rog!!

Great job Alan on getting out there and getting folks on the fish!

 

Sincerely,

Jim

Thanks for the report and pictures Alan.