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USA Fishing Presents Northern California's Premier Fishing Report Friday, August 3, 2012 Weekend Best Bets Report Hot Sheet USA Fishing presents Northern California's premier fishing report www: hurleychronicles.com August 1, 2012: --The contents of the HotSheet(tm) are for information to our subscribers only. It is not to be republished in any form without the expressed approval of Dave Hurley. Said contents are not to be electronically forwarded in any format or to be displayed without our consent. Note: The information in the Round and About Section is encouraged to be shared with others. For better viewing of the Hot Sheet – open the attached PDF file to see the pictures. Albacore fever has started to build momentum with close range action near the Weather Buoy in Monterey Bay. The action has been very good with the promise of an excellent season, and this weekend should be littered with boats trolling for albacore. There still isn’t any live bait out of Santa Cruz, but Bocce Boy is trying. Golden Gate salmon fishing slowed down to less than a fish per rod, but the fish are hot and big. With the salmon already staging outside of the Gate, the next few weeks will be particularly interesting. Friday, August 3, 2012 Weekend Best Bets Report Hot Sheet On the weather front, the winds will be strong on the outside due to a low pressure trough, and a large swell will emerge above Point Reyes over the next several days. San Francisco Bay will be windy through the rest of the week before backing off a bit over the weekend. As always, double-check the weather, wear your PFD, and be safe to fish another day! Good Luck! Dave Saltwater Wrap: Eureka: The beat goes on up in Eureka, and Gary Blasi of Full Throttle Sport Fishing had a great day with full limits of salmon ranging from 12 to 25- pounds by 11:00 a.m. on Thursday. “The fish are getting larger, and Captain Phil Hoxie of the Shellback landed a 34-pounder on Thursday.” One of Blasi’s clients had a big one on, and it ran off 150 yards before becoming unbuttoned. On Wednesday, Blasi ended up one fish shy of limits after hooking nearly 30 fish, losing a number in the process. They spend at least ½ hour liberating a 25-pound salmon from a rod and reel that an angler lost overboard. The fisherman called out on the radio that he had lost his rod and reel, and Blasi hooked up with the line while trolling. After handlining the rod in, they returned the gear to the angler. Talk about building up your fish kharma. Eureka has been a very popular spot, but Friday, August 3, 2012 Weekend Best Bets Report Hot Sheet Blasi does have two spots on August 14, 16, and 18th. Fort Bragg: Kevin Browning of Noyo Fish Center said, “We are planning on doing albacore this weekend if the weather improves on the Ambush, a 43 Delta,” adding, “The edge looks good due west at about 35 miles.” They will be running rockfish and ling cod trips up the Lost Coast towards Shelter Cove through the 15th of August when the season in this section of the coast closes. On Sunday’s trip to White Rock, they had 12 vermilion averaging 8- pounds in 50 feet of water with ten year-old Olivia and seven year-old Caz De Maigret of Napa caught full limits on their first trip ocean fishing with 2 vermilion and 2 lings. Interest anglers can reach Browning at 707-372-9996. Half Moon Bay: Tuna fever is also starting to boil out of Half Moon Bay with the albacore only 51 miles from the harbor down an in from the Monterey Weather Buoy at 36/38 and 122/18. Dennis Baxter of the New Captain Pete said, “The salmon are still eluding us, but the coast is full of biting rockfish,” adding, “Every reef is loaded with blues and blacks.” The Queen of Hearts put in 19 limits of coastal rockfish on Thursday. A few private boats went out for salmon with minimal results, but the deckhand of the Connie O went south out of Monterey and plugged the boat with albacore only 17 miles from the harbor. Baxter has a salmon charter on Saturday with an open load on Sunday. Monterey Chris Arcoleo of Chris’s Landing said, “We fished halibut most of the day, but after not landing a flatfish, we are able to pick up a pair of salmon for a very light load of 5 passengers.” He added, “Some boats did well on the salmon as they started to bite late in the afternoon.” He confirmed the great albacore action with the fish only 10 miles from the harbor with small boats landing up to 32 fish. They are full on Friday and Saturday, but there is some room on Sunday’s rockfishing trip. Friday, August 3, 2012 Weekend Best Bets Report Hot Sheet Tuna by Mike Aughney! Tom on the FishOn out of Santa Cruz scored big on nearshore tuna on Thursday 8-2 Fishing just outside the Monterey weather buoy Tom said the morning bite was slooooow but the fish came up and they couldn't beat them back in the early afternoon. They ended up with 22 fish mostly 12 to 15 pounds with two larger fish that went 20 and 25 pounds. They were working the usual assortment of clones and jigs with the Mexican flag and zucchini patterns working best. Tom said several private boaters also got in on the action and if the weather and water temps cooperate we will see lots of fish and many, many boats working the area over the weekend. On the salmon front Tom's last trip was Sunday 7-29 with two boated and two lost fishing at Soquel hole. Tom is offering both tuna and salmon trips through August. Santa Cruz Report from Allen Bushnell of the Santa Cruz Sentinel: Ho hum. Go out at 6am and catch a limit of fish for everyone on the boat by 9am. Yawn. If it wasn’t so fun it might even be boring. The charter boats and private boaters from Santa Cruz may be getting spoiled, but no one is complaining about Friday, August 3, 2012 Weekend Best Bets Report Hot Sheet the stellar fishing we’ve enjoyed so far this season. Rockfish are the mainstay. Astoundingly, the local reefs continue to be very productive even this late in the season. Jim Rubin from Captain Jimmy Charters had a “regular” day on Saturday. “We had four anglers catch full limits of blacks, blues and yellowtail rockfish, plus two lingcod. We were done by nine o’clock.”Rubin could have repeated that report for the remainder of his trips this week, with the addition of a few halibut caught after the rockfish bags were full. Gerry Brookes on the Doble has essentially the same to report. On Tuesday, they caught eight lingcod weighing up to 20 pounds each, on top of full rockfish limits. Tom Dolan on the Mega-Bite reports limit all week as well, with the inclusion of a few “Big” vermilions Sunday and a rare Tiger rockfish on Friday. Salmon fishing has slowed and we hope a new school will move into the bay. A number of kings were reported caught last week, including a few in shallow water areas outside Capitola and near the Mile Buoy. Both those locations are also featuring a very productive halibut bite right now. The flatties are located anywhere between20-70 feet of water, and are biting on fresh or frozen squid, tray bait herring or anchovies and a variety of swimbait lures. Squid are still actively spawning in some local areas, and a white sea bass or two could be in the mix. When the offshore conditions cooperate, anglers are doing well on albacore tuna, according to Todd Fraser from Bayside Marine. Fraser reports tuna caught only15 miles from the Santa Cruz harbor on Wednesday. Earlier in the week, the fish were much further away. Bayside angler Corey Ragan took the long trip last Thursday with J.T. Thomas aboard Tim O’Halloran’s boat nearly 50 miles outside “the dog bone” near Pt. Sur. They scored 32 fish, with a few caught as close as 22 miles from Santa Cruz. Friday, August 3, 2012 Weekend Best Bets Report Hot Sheet Corey and J.T with Santa Cruz Albacore (Photo Courtesy of Allen Bushnell) Friday, August 3, 2012 Weekend Best Bets Report Hot Sheet Bayside Marine in Santa Cruz When the tuna are biting, we try and include as many sources as possible, and Bayside Marine in Santa Cruz said, “The albacore are on the bite from 36'40/122'13 to 36'37/122'20, and the wind ranged from 10 to 15 knots all day long.” They added that halibut fishing is still good, and a few sea bass have been landed fly lining squid near the Mile Buoy working the squid balls. Golden Gate by Mike Aughney: The salmon are beginning to "stage" and are showing off the Gate in ever increasing numbers the past few days. On Thursday 8-2 Emeryville had the New Seeker, C Gull and Superfish out seeking salmon. Their combined 42 anglers landed 47 salmon to 24 pounds with one bonus halibut. The fleet was kind of spread out in the morning, but most boats ended up NW of #1 buoy of the main ship channel. The quote of the day goes to Roger Thomas on the Salty Lady.
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