NCKA Kicks Butt at Point Richmond 4/12/08

One of the nice things about NOT being in the AOTY is that you can have a great time watching all of your friends catch fish and not feel bad that you are not catching any yourself. I had a great time reconnecting with all of my salt water friends. Lots of butts landed today with one of the biggest by FishinJay (AKA Jimmy Buffet). It was all "margaritaville" for Jay today. Like I said this morning Jay, today you will be glad you didn't move to Alabama. Tell me I'm wrong. 

Scott

Congrats guys, I couldnt make it, I built some waf doing a marin hike(fished a bit at Pheonix), looked like a good one for sure.

Sorry Scott, looks like we were posting at the same time since we didn't have any fish to clean LOL.

Gary

Great Job on Kicking Butts.........

Jay, it was great to meet you the other day at Berkley Marina. Nice to put a face with a name. Congats on the Butts. Hope to see you posting more of the pics of what you catch.......

I've been waiting all day for this report.  I'm glad you guys hit em' hard today...nice shots

Thanks for posting the pics! I can't find my download cable for my camera at the moment.

You're right, it was a great time! It sounds like there were fish all over the Berkeley flats even though I heard several of the PB's complaining of a skunk.

My first, the biggest  came after a PB trolled past me and hooked up two short ones right in front of me. I changed my angle a bit to troll right behind where they had just hooked up and suddenly BENDO!

Once I welcomed the fish aboard, it measured out at 30". This was my first halibut from a kayak and gave me a great fight, ripping drag and zipping under my boat each time it saw the net. 

The second fish was smaller at 24" and it came at almost exactly the same spot about a mile north of Brooks Island.

Thanks to Rory and Otobepelagic for the intel on Friday. Based upon their report I trolled herring in an RSK behind a big dodger which turned out to be the ticket for me today. 

Also thanks to John (Backcountry) who hung out with me throughout the day. He was right in the same area as me, but no halibut for him. Luck of the draw I guess.  Once I landed the second fish he paddled over and put the jinx on me by saying "Wow, one more fish and you've got a limit."  The bite promptly died!

Looking forward to the next halibut hookup!

well I don't have any pic but I do have 2 halibut one 27 and one 24 Dave got 2 at at 24 they were twins
thanks for a the pics guys I need to go to bed now

CYA  :smt006Duane

There was no love for me either Scott , I drug one chovy around all day I must not have had the rig quite right it was my first time trolling for halibut. Congress to all NCKAer who caught fish today way to go, it was a beautiful day on the Bay can't wait for next time will be more prepared .

Pat R 

Looks Like you Guys found the spot,

  STRONG WORK!!!!!   AWESOME!!!!!

 I did get out on the water today, on the FireBoat,  pretty Kool,

 Looking Kool waving to the Eye Candy

Needed it, Rough Morning out here in Sac

  I hope to get out there Monday Morn....

 Good job fellas ........ Danglin

Looks like Good Times for sure.  Great NCKA hookup #5895-B.   

Yesterday was great, even though I got skunked.  Met up with FishinJay at 6:15 and we were on the water by about 7:00am (even before team-InsaneDuane)... off at about 1:00pm... man, hell of a current and breeze to fight against getting back to the launch at that time... I wouldn't have bothered to fight it and kept fishing except I had honey-do's that needing attending to.

For the first couple hours I trolled a large herring in a large FBR behind a 4-inch E-chip flasher with a 12 oz. ball on a 2 foot dropper... that rig ended up getting tangled and twisted all to hell (noob manuever, I think)... so I switched to an inline 5 oz. trolling sinker followed by an anchovie on an FBR.

Bottom line, I had one short bite at about 8:00am, and then at about 12:30pm my anchovie got decapated right as I rounded the breakwater heading for the barn.

Jay did a great job of making it look easy... both his fish were caught back-to-back... sorry for the jinx, but it did look to me like you were on the way to limiting out... I have full size pics I can e-mail you (pm me your e-mail address).

Pics 1 & 2:  Dawn Patrol





Pics 3 & 4:  Who da man?  Jay's da man!





Pics 5 & 6:  Jay, I don't know if you signed up for AOTY, but if so, these pics will suffice as proof





No fishing for me today, but I have Tuesday off and I may give it a go at Oyster Point...

   Backcountry

Looks like halibut season is really starting to kick into gear.  Glad to see a lot of NCKA'ers score.  The action should only get better.  I have a feeling someone here will catch a 40" or better butt this year if the power boaters don't get to them all first.  Halibut and stripers in the bay are gonna get hammered since there's no salmon season.  We're already seeing more charter boats out there.

You guys definitely found them. Way to kick butt out there... I hope they stick around for a little bit...

Freddie

Awesome. Nice pics indeed on a beautiful day. Congrats to all who scored.