China Camp Dino Hunt Saturday 12/22?

Anyone down for a San Pablo dino hunt on Saturday... potentially a trip to the honey hole (weather permitting of course)?

The rain this week is good... the tide on Saturday is Huge... 8.78 feet of total tide movement with a -1.53 foot bottom... hold onto your socks! You'll be hard pressed to see the bay drained farther than it will be drained on Saturday's low tide.

If the rain causes the water temp raise a little bit, that'll also be a good thing to get the dinos more active. 

Right now the forecast is for calm winds up to 5 kt.

Figure a launch around 9:30-ish and off the water around 3-ish to prevent a mudfest.

EK

hey there KZ. i would like to join you on the dino hunt on sat. it will be my first time targeting sturgeon. based on my other fishing experiences, i am quite certain i wont be catching anything so i am not to worried about doing it right. i am however, going to read bill's sturgeon article and buy a bunch of crap that i dont really know how to use;...just in case.

Hmmm, I am going to try to make this...where is the launch spot? I have my Kayak at a dock on the Petaluma river east of HWY 37, is the "honey hole" near there?

Erik,   i need one and am tierd of them looking up at me laughin in ZumaSlough. if the winds stay low as forcasted, I will meet you here!  ChinaCamp Pay$Lot or up at Bullhead Flats. pay$lot?   
if that darn wind is already blowin @ 7am,   I'm pullin out and hitting somewhere else! (weather permitting of coarse)

hey there KZ. i would like to join you on the dino hunt on sat. it will be my first time targeting sturgeon. based on my other fishing experiences, i am quite certain i wont be catching anything so i am not to worried about doing it right. i am however, going to read bill's sturgeon article and buy a bunch of crap that i dont really know how to use;...just in case.

Erik/KZ is the author of that article........that's why i'm trying to Buddy up with him

Hey Erik,

I'm in.  I'll probably be launching from Bullhead a little earlier in the morning, say 7ish and leaving a little earlier in the afternoon...

Adam, a guy from work went out on a PB last Saturday and fished just south of where we were in the Monty... he lost his virginity by boating a 65-incher on grass shrimp and eel.  How much does that suck?  I told him next time to try fishing from his kayak instead... like a real man.  Then he promptly thumped me (he's 6'5", 300+... I may be an inch taller, but he's got me by sixty pounds easy) so now I have to paddle with a broken arm!

Anyway, looking forward to it, hope the wind stays down.

Backslider

 , I should try to get a day off...
so now, I wanna know where to meet... where is the bullhead flats?
let me know!

, I should try to get a day off...
so now, I wanna know where to meet... where is the bullhead flats?
let me know!

Google China Camp State Park        Bullhead Flats is 5min.north of the C.C.S.P. it is a pay$lot also.   
All the gates open at the same time in that area.
If you get to ChinaCamp before the hikers/bikers there is a free lot that holds about 8 cars, but you will have to u/l your stuff, then park your VEH. up the hill in that lot...or pay$ and do it the easy way. 
** Bullhead flats hold a little more water when returning on the low-tide side.
** ChinaCamp will drain faster, leaving you with 100yrds. of MUD to push/pull through (low-tide).

I prefer to launch right at the main beach at China Camp... so that's where I'll be going out from.  

I've actually felt that the main beach at china camp muds out a little later than bull head flat.  Who knows... I've done the mudfest at both places and bullhead seemed to me to be a little tougher in the mud... the mud seems to be softer there.

Chetbango... the honey hole is out in the middle of San Pablo bay... the area is also known as "shell bank" on the fishing maps... about 1.5 miles north and east of china camp... between the pumphouse and the duck blinds.

Petaluma river mouth is good for fishing an incoming tide... the dinos move up into the shallows as the tide comes up... oftentimes the fishing is good in only 3 or 4 feet of water.

EK

I'll check the WAF, haven't been to hell, I mean SPB in a while!

I prefer to launch right at the main beach at China Camp... so that's where I'll be going out from.  

I've actually felt that the main beach at china camp muds out a little later than bull head flat.  Who knows... I've done the mudfest at both places and bullhead seemed to me to be a little tougher in the mud... the mud seems to be softer there.

and lots of muddy boulders, scattered about, at BHF. 

I don't care where we launch or how much mud we walk through as long as we meet on the water somewhere and form a nice little gauntlet for the sturgeon to deal with. 

Backslider

the wind still looks good & got Saturday off!!!
I'll be there, so where can I meet!!!

I'm just starting out. Beside a good sturgeon rod, What else do I need? (i.e. anchor, gaff, ect.) Is there a place to get bait? Never been there and want to go Hoping to hook up with you guys. Almost forgot, my son will be going too

Read this ==>  http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/index.php?page=14

You can buy grass or ghost shrimp at Loch Lomond Marina or Western Boat.

(search the forum for more on those bait shops)

  EXCELLANT
Thanks