Anyone ever launch at Seacliff Beach - Any fish?

Has anyone ever launched/ fished out of Seacliff Beach?  It seems the launch/ landing would be pretty doable.  How about the fishing, anything?

I don't think it's legal to launch at Seacliff, its a public beach...

Rich

You can launch there, better to launch at new Brighton and paddle towards Capitola.    More a chance of catching fish.  Seacliff has no structure.  I guess halibut are a possibility, but remember they like to hang in sandy areas near structure.

good luck

Allen

I practiced landing and launching there when I first got my yak years ago.  Very easy most of the time.  Be a bit careful on the medium shore dump days. 

fishing is tough though, as SCallen said, not much structure and a long paddle to get deep.  I have toyed with the idea of trolling for stripers certain times of year though.

Eugene

Seacliff is really hit or miss, mostly miss.  Having said that, WSB, Stripers, threshers all caught there every year, and in the old days, I remember one silver salmon run going wild in the shadow of the Cement ship

(this is so long a ago, that you could actually keep Silvers in Santa Cruz......)

NB's you get the best of both worlds, go left to Cement Ship, Go right to Captila and reef/kelp.

Allen

Try it in the afternoon when the massive bait balls come in the afternoon during the summer and fall. The pier produces 1 or 2 stripers a day,usually around sunset (1 fish for every 50 anglers yay!) and some random good halibut days in the summer(2 or 3 keepers, thats a good day there). The bait has been staying away from the pier this year mostly(just out a reach, maybe they are learning?) but i think if you drifted some live bait around the edge of the bait balls you could nail some huge stripers and threshers and even some halibut. Last august and September there every day in the afternoon you could go down to the pier and and catch 2 pacific mackerel  at a time on every cast. Kinda fun but really crowded. The pier produces more sharks then anything so far this year 3-4 foot leopards, dog fish, 7 gill, threshers, skates, i got a massive ray. Im told this has been the slowest starting year for that pier.