Sat BH 9/6

I slept in and rolled up around 9:30 maybe a little later. ship to shore told me who was out there: lot's of NCKA'ers,  . I parked in the lot and rolled down the stairs with the rolleeze and launched on the left side of the cove.

didn't sound all that good out there at that time, but somebody had a verm on their lap at least. I have not fished there this year so I knew I was going out no matter what. just to see for myself.

I paddled out at about 10 degrees from the launch to cafe craig 'but territory in 45-80 feet. I found a lot of marks. and a PB pulled up right next to me and sheepishly explained it was a honey hole of his. well he was cool, it was nice to have somebody to talk to.

The marks weren't all that cooperative, but they were small fish anyways when they did bite. at least there were marks!

Water was a little stained. jellyfish kind of water...

A steady pick in a ratio of 2 small blacks to 1 big gopher jumped on a home made shrimpfly rig with 2" cabelas pink'n'glow hoochies with tinsel inserts and a 3 oz weight (no wind or waves out there, pretty much a lake).  fun, but not quite worth keeping.

then somebody rocked my shrimpfly rig. WTF? how does that even happen?  there's no hook on the bottom!!!

A fish puked up a couple 1.5" red and white shrimp. if you want rockfish, not lings, small like 2" and under, and red or pink and white seems good.

Out deeper I saw some massive sardine schools. Also a humpback.  and some sealions. right on the scum line in about 80-90 feet.

just inside of that are massive jellyfish schools. and mondo smelt.

big bait party.

I enjoyed the t-shirt weather and wildlife nexus for a bit.  pulled up a few more blacks, kept one chunky one. still not big.

Pulled up a nice brown. Browns from deeper water are excellent eating. on the stringer.

Moved again. pulled up a nice china. those are small fish. but they fight hard for their puniness. and they taste great so I kept it.

All this time I am listening to ChuckE on the radio. it's like K-Chuck,  . and I hear somebody land a 38" ling. dang!

Then I run into Freddie! He just lost a halibut.  .  This place might be livening up in a grudging sort of way!

Right after Freddie paddles off I hook and land a 26" ling on a 5" big hammer anchovy swimbait. pink 2" hoochie teaser.

calico ling. could be thicker, but fights well. lots of head shakes and one good run. In my book a ling turns a so-so day into a good one.

With a ling and 3 species of rockfish on my stringer I am trying to decide what to do next. deep? shallow? ?????

wind is just barely coming up and it is about 12:45 so I decide to quit while I am ahead and point it to shore and land where I launched. navigate the bikinis back to the truck and head out, seeing the fishunter heading home at the same time.

No schools of crazy blacks or blues hitting iron, and I fished mostly too deep for cabs, but it was definitely worth the go-out.

J

Ditto...kinda slow for me too...  

Seriously, thanks to all of the 510 love at the Bean today.  Spent the weeee hours at a MLPA meeting in HMB, finished the morning fishing one of the places we saved!  Sweet karma!!! 

Awesome weather, downright hot at times, and excellent whale show in the early part of the day.  Steady pick of big blacks and grass 2 cabs and a fat ling...what more could you want.

Allen...I am coming to get you!!! 

ah, THAT sean...  .  I figured it was piscean doing the linging. Nice fishing with you scwafish,  .

WTG Sean!
you're the man (I said that to Juan too but you really are too)!
watching you top guys like some kinda fantasy sports, maybe we should start doing that fantasy NCKA!
Thank you for your awesomeness!!!
& jmairey thank you for the report!

Cool report, John - even w/o pics on your part!   

Sean rocked it - nice work!  That's a fa-tay ling  .

Yup, the bean serves up another bounty.  always some dang nice variety there.  Good work fellas.

Freddie and I arrived early tried our usual spots for nada, so we decided to try something different and head way north and deep to where the all of the boaters were.  Sadly, it wasn't much better there.  I only caught and kept a cabbie and few rockies but the quality was nothing like what I was use to.

On this day, the Bean was nice only to first-time visitors -- Don (backindayak) and Sean (scwafish).  Both caught very nice lings.

Pic 1 -- Don with his nice stringer
Pic 2 -- Adam helping measure Sean's ling
Pic 3 -- Adam with a perfect landing
Pic 4 -- Freddie with a not-so-perfect landing
Pic 2 -- The guys checking out the bikinis on the beach

The guys checking out the bikinis on the beach

After yesterday, i wish it was sunny more often at the coast!

Pic of freddie makes it look like it could have been 75 degree water!

The rockfish are definitely eating well, the three I filleted for dinner were footballs. The ling I filleted looked good too of course but I decided to eat the rockfish first for a change. The china was best, but just barely the others were also great.

What did scwafish use for those big blacks? whole baitfish? I remember last year mooch trooched whole frozen anchovies in shallow for some nice ones.

J

Great report jmairey. Congrats to scwafish,Don,and FisHunter on the nice
stringer. Thanks ChuckE for taking the awesome pictures.

Jed

Swimbaits was all I used most of the day.

Nice to see the photo of all the bikini watchers after the landing. Looks like John will get to keep up the fish taco tradition. I miss the carpool down to Big Sur though.

John-

Looks like you cranked up the hurt on those fish after I left you. Really nice job. And for some reason... the water felt "warmer" or something yesterday. I don't know... just wasn't as cold as normal I guess. Really nice running into you out there again.

Fishing was sllllllllllloooooooooooow for me... I paddled a ways toward San G.... nada mucho. I did hook into a major but that I lost just feet from my boat. And with that... went my day. Oh well... I must say that the fishing was very good for others though. Don (nice to meet you by the ways) had a very nice stringer. And Sean... what can I say... He was looking to turn up the heat on the AOTY leaders and he did in a major way. Nice job boys... As always... good company, lots of laughs and good fun...

PS... Man... the eye candy was out in FORCE...

Freddie

I was going big and piad for it with NOTHING BIG hook'd from me...I started babysitting a passed down greenling for the first half of the day, then switched to a smaller,bite-sized candy for the remainder of it. 

I have teezer action, but nothing worth noting.

We did have a Humpback whale feeding around us....Nate and I witnessed it breech/feed, its whole body halfway out of the water, then slipped back in, like in SLOW MOTION....we looked at each other with dropped jaws....INCREDABLE
SCRATCHoffLIST:SEEbreechingHUMPBACK!upCLOSEandPERSONAL

the ride to BeanHollow takes me 1hr.20min...these are the terrible things I pass on the way........all pics were taken from car doing 65+mph.(safely)

pic1&2~Port of Oakland....Alameda Rockwall is on the horizon.....and there were NCKA'rs down there fishing

pic3~ Central Bay...Angel Is. .....    MarinShores&GoldenGate..........  to the far right..Paradise that area therebouts.