King Salmon Humboldt

Yo peeps, been a minute 
So these days I find myself living in King Salmon. I'm fishing and poke pole-ing the fudge outta the rock walls around here for (pretty much) a goose egg. I've scoured our site here and noticed that there used to be a phenomenal perch bite around these parts (the PG&E outflow, wherever that is.) And Clayman got a nice starry once upon a time,  which I'd be very interested to acquire on a regular basis.

What I've noted so far is pretty much Eel Grass or sand flats all around anywhere from 0 - maybe 8 feet; except for the Fields Landing Channel behind Gill's, which drops right off to around 20'. I've fished the channel a couple times with bait and found that a good number of decent sized keeper Dungees are readily available, but I'd like to catch something beyond the occasional sculpin. Anyone have any shareable info that can steer me into perch, flatfish, or anything worth keeping immediately around King Salmon? I'm aware of the great clamming right here and I do well off N and S jetties, but I'd love to go out on a walk with the fam and bring something good home.
Thanks! 

It's a good place to catch king salmon, when the timing's right.   

The rock walls aren't really deep or extensive enough to hold more than a few greenling and a cab here and there.  I've never known the King Salmon beach to be very fishy, except for launching from there to fish the jetties, the CG or offshore.

Maybe see you around.

I was so bummed when the PG&E outfall was shut down! It was a stream of warm 70+ degree water coming out of the PG&E nuclear power plant. It was a fish magnet, especially in the winter and spring months. It was shut off somewhere around 2010, if I remember correctly. That's where I caught that big starry flounder, fishing a chunk of clam neck on the bottom. It was the only starry I caught there.

Fishing away from the PG&E outfall, you can have some good days fishing small baits alongside the rocks for striped and pile perch. Winter/spring is the best time for the perch. Tips of the little jetties can be good at times, but it's not consistent. I had a friend who lived in KS and would drop baits/lures into rocky holes, and every now and then, he'd catch a really nice grass RF or monkeyface eel. But similar to the perch fishing, it wasn't consistent.

Casting out and slowly dragging pieces of shrimp along the sandy bottom in spring can pull up a variety of stuff. Redtails, small sand sole, bat rays, leopard sharks, etc.

That deepwater channel near Gil's can be good for shark fishing at night. Spiny dogfish, leopards, bat rays. Low slack tide was typically best there.

If it were me and I wanted to catch a quality fish, I'd chuck swimbaits off the rocks and cover ground for CA halibut. The flats just north of the beach can be productive halibut grounds at times. The HSU Ichthyology class beach seined a few nice CA halibut right off the little beach there too, like 20 years ago. I scored a 3-fish halibut limit trolling the flats just north of KS when I last fished it via kayak last September.

I was so bummed when the PG&E outfall was shut down! It was a stream of warm 70+ degree water coming out of the PG&E nuclear power plant. It was a fish magnet, especially in the winter and spring months. It was shut off somewhere around 2010, if I remember correctly. That's where I caught that big starry flounder, fishing a chunk of clam neck on the bottom. It was the only starry I caught there.

Fishing away from the PG&E outfall, you can have some good days fishing small baits alongside the rocks for striped and pile perch. Winter/spring is the best time for the perch. Tips of the little jetties can be good at times, but it's not consistent. I had a friend who lived in KS and would drop baits/lures into rocky holes, and every now and then, he'd catch a really nice grass RF or monkeyface eel. But similar to the perch fishing, it wasn't consistent.

Casting out and slowly dragging pieces of shrimp along the sandy bottom in spring can pull up a variety of stuff. Redtails, small sand sole, bat rays, leopard sharks, etc.

That deepwater channel near Gil's can be good for shark fishing at night. Spiny dogfish, leopards, bat rays. Low slack tide was typically best there.

If it were me and I wanted to catch a quality fish, I'd chuck swimbaits off the rocks and cover ground for CA halibut. The flats just north of the beach can be productive halibut grounds at times. The HSU Ichthyology class beach seined a few nice CA halibut right off the little beach there too, like 20 years ago. I scored a 3-fish halibut limit trolling the flats just north of KS when I last fished it via kayak last September.

Next time, please try to be more detail-oriented...

Awesome guys, thank you very much, I really appreciate the info. I'll keep after it. I've seen a lot of boats drifting that channel and I'm assuming they're after CaliHalis, but they don't come all that far back, like say, behind Gil's - perhaps 150 yards out the channel. I hadn't put too much thought into casting the flats with a swim bait but I'll give it a whirl. My little one would have a blast with a school of seaperch if I could find some.

I'll keep an eye out for ya abking, I think it's been since gs7 haha. I drove into Petrolia for work a couple weeks ago and it was glassy and nice along black sand. Saw a few trucks that looked like they were maybe set up for yak fishing but didn't see anybody out there. Made me think about your cape reports.

Next time, please try to be more detail-oriented...

Awesome guys, thank you very much, I really appreciate the info. I'll keep after it. I've seen a lot of boats drifting that channel and I'm assuming they're after CaliHalis, but they don't come all that far back, like say, behind Gil's - perhaps 150 yards out the channel. I hadn't put too much thought into casting the flats with a swim bait but I'll give it a whirl. My little one would have a blast with a school of seaperch if I could find some.

Good luck! For the kids, try drifting pieces of prawn under a bobber as close to the rocks as you can. Jacksmelt come around there every once in a while too. Could make for some bobber-downs.

A pretty fair place to catch Redtails from shore is at Stinky Beach. Park at the Elk River Road exit, walk out the trail and take the first left. As soon as you go over the railroad bridge turn right and go to the bay. Once you hit the bay fish left or right. Plenty of room. It's all nice and sandy.