no salmon love for me!!

well, hit moss today with a couple others in yaks and about two thousand boats trolled three miles out one mile across then back in mooch a couple of times but the South wind came up early. mark bait and fish right out the mouth most of the boats were off mulligans. but of course bye time I left the wind shut off but needed to go do some painting today . maybe the other guys did better I guess we will have to wait and see.
Steve

thanks for the report chef 

No salmon for me, either.  The radio guys were mostly getting them deep.  Launched with Chef.  We heard Dave and Kevin out there, never saw them.  The parking at the south jetty launch was getting tight- there is some kind of boatramp 100 yds before the end of the road.  That's unusual for mid-week.  Short season effect? I heard on VHF that the season is to be extended some.  Hope it's true.  The lot at the north launch looked pretty full as I left at 1:00.  How was it this a.m.?
   Here's what I think I learned today: If there is a light offshore (East) wind, it gets its fetch the further out you go.  The chop on the return trip safe and doable out a couple miles, but not fun.  As I got inshore, maybe 1 1/2 m from the jaws, it lightened up and eventually got real pleasant.
    The paddle in thru the jaws a mid ebb is a workout.  Probably took me 45 mins from the mile can. I think it was moving at least 2 mph near the can, faster inside.  That and the westerly swell combined to make some almost-surfable rollers just inside the jaws, even mid-channel.
     Very nice to see the sun. Hope it's good tomorrow.

Tom you are right about the fetch (area over which wind blows to generate waves).

This is why the surfing in santa cruz stinks on east wind. it blows up windchop across the bay and some of it lands in santa cruz.

it might seem like the wind kicks off as you get back to shore, but really there is just no fetch for the waves to grow.

hopefully it wasn't blowing real hard like when I paddled back last week. cool to find my boat is good, but a bit tedious.

I like grandpa bill's theory of freshwater runoff from the slough driving them deep.

Thanks for the report.

No love here either, nor for Kevin.  We heard Fuzzy Tom head in around 8-something, then Kevin called it a day before 10.  I stayed out there until noon, and back to the north launch around 1.  Mostly trolled around 1.5 to 2.5 miles out, back and forth and back and forth.  No takedowns, not even a scrape on my bait.

Wind died way down after 10, and when I caught myself falling asleep basking in the sun, I called it a day.  Pretty big swells out there, but overall nice conditions.  Here's to hoping that the weekend is as nice.

The lot at the north launch looked pretty full as I left at 1:00.  How was it this a.m.?

At 6am I had no problem finding parking (near the restroom).

Just a heads up that the DFG is out in force.  There were about 4 or 5 DFG guys checking fish at the launch -- I heard one guy get a ticket.

-- Dave

Good to hear that you guys got out there at least. A couple of words of advice... Fish deep and stay out longer if you can. If you don't get them early, there seems to be a late morning/early afternoon bite going on. That's pretty much the time that I got mine at too.

Sorry to hear that you guys didn't score. By the looks of it, there will be more chances for salmon this season.

Freddie

Great try guys!  I spoke to Kevin this morning as he was driving back.  Conditions sounded very similar to last Sunday with periods of chop and calm.

Shoulda been out there, Chuck.  The rest of us would have had a much better chance fishing next to you!!

-- Dave

Yes, good try guys, its gonna hve to pay off sooner or later.

Thanks for the report fellas.  Coastside reports seem to favor mooching over trolling.  We've got to get this thing dialed............Freddie needs at least a LITTLE competition......

Were you mooching? Is it possible to troll at two hundred feet deep? Maybe with a two pound ball? I was in a bait shop today and some guy said his private boat caught 15 last weekend at Moss with a glow in the dark "crippled herring", trolling between 250 and 300 feet. Were you that deep? Any tips appreciated! javascript:void(0);

Coastside reports seem to favor mooching over trolling.

Lots of talk on the radio about trolling through bait balls with downriggers at 200 feet.  The only place that I marked much was right outside the harbor channel.  I trolled through there, but nada.  Makes me wonder what's down there...

-- Dave