The need for wild fish

 After a couple of months of realy good trout fishing at the various Bay Area lakes the action slowed down a lot for me. I was also getting burned out on the $12 to $15 a day to fish for planters no matter how big. I have been impatiently waiting for Stripers and Halibut to come into the bay, and after getting skunked my last six efforts on the bay, I finally had some luck. On wed the 7th. a friend and I paddled to one of my spots on the north bay It was a truly spectaculer day and had we not caught any fish it would have been just fine, but we did. I usualy prefer incomming tides but the outgoing was the only tide we could catch.(a blessing for us as it turned out). We started catching schoolie sized stripers right away, lost a couple of bigger fish (keepers) and at about the bottom of the tide I got a huge hit and thought right away that it was a Halibut, and I was right an 11 pounder to be exact. So now i'm thinking that I have been sleeping on the outgoing tide all these years, so I go back on friday the 9th. with my bro Don aka dablazer. the tide was allmost the same as it was on wed. We started nailing them right away. This time the Stripers were a little bigger. We both lost a couple of bigger fish and landed a few to. Again at about the bottom of the tide just as the ferries wake came crashing to shore whamo I got a huge hit, judging by the way it was peeling my line and staying near the bottom I thoght it was a halibut, but it was a Sriper this time 6.5 pounds. It fought like a bull and thought it would have been bigger, but still a good fish. A stellar day on the bay. Hey Chuck E, fishunter , mooch ,and the rest of you salt water guys that I have not yet met, I am good on my self rescue and am good to go for Rock fish. Give me a shout.

Yours Truly
B.A.
East bay Slayers

Congrat on the nice Hali and Stripers.  Thanks for the report and picture Brian.

Thanks for the detailed report! That halibut looks SWEET! I've gotta get out there soon!

After chasing high tides forever, this Spring I've discovered my most productive times in Corte Madea Creek can  be at the bottom of the tides. It's nice to have options, isn't it?

Were you fishing lures or bait?

Nice early season flatty...and some good stripers to boot!

WTG!!!  nice looking fish!

White hair raisers w/white worm tail for 90 percent of fish. Swim baits, like fish traps also  work well. Most of the success that I've had have been off the hair raiser, so thats what I have confidence in. I have lots more pictures to post and I will post them today, I'm so pitiful on this dagblasted computer, I'll have to have my wife help me when she gets home.  

Awesome!!!

Congrats on the sweet flattie and stripers!!

Thank you for sharing!!
 
Sincerely,

Jim

Nice one.     Way to get it done and report.

Nice one Spring is starting to turn for you guys up there it looks like.

Nice bay fish. I spent a couple of days on Lafayette Res last week and I know the feeling of aquarium fishing for some mushy, trucked in fish. My personal goal is to catch a halibut and a lingcod from my yak this year. Thanks for the report.

Awesome report B.A. ! Nice job getting a super clean halibut. By the looks of it's belly that fish looks like it's been there for a while and hasn't been moving around too much. I know it doen't make a difference but i love it when they have a clean pure white belly like that.


-Eliot

nice B.A. good looking hali, congrats, cameron

Great Fish! Thanks for the report.....

Nice catch... it's that time of the year again.

Freddie

WTG on the stripers and hali BA.

Jedmo