By David Hurley One of the most-highly anticipated openers along the coast is the recreational Dungeness crab opener, and after a delay of several months during the 2015 season due to high levels of domoic acid, the sport crab … Continued
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) announces new restrictions on recreational fishing for groundfish in waters north of Point Conception to the Oregon/California border. Changes to authorized fishing depths described below take effect Monday, Oct. 16 at 12:01 … Continued
If you like to fish saltwater in northern and Central California, you can take your pick of salmon, lingcod, halibut or sturgeon fishing at this time. Anglers fishing aboard New Easy Rider out of the Berkeley Marina and other boats … Continued
Charter Boats Prep For Upcoming Season As Private Boats Find A Few Sturgeon Berkeley/Emeryville (East Bay) “I’d been doing really well on sturgeon down in the south end of the South Bay, but that action has really slowed down … Continued
Conventional wisdom asserts that surf fishing is one of the least productive angling approaches you can choose. It is said that when you divide the number of hours saltwater bank anglers spend fishing by the number of fish caught, … Continued
Berkeley/Emeryville Crab Combo Action Remains Solid When Weather Cooperates (East Bay) When the weather is decent, crab and rockfish combo trips beyond the Golden Gate have been yielding fantastic results. The best rockfish results have been coming from the Farallon … Continued
Berkeley/Emeryville Rockfish And Crab Combo Action Red Hot For East Bay Anglers (Berkeley) The crab season kicked off for Bay Area saltwater anglers on November 5 and since then it’s been limits all around with anglers scoring limits of big … Continued
When 40 plus hardcore Fish Sniffer supporters man one of the Bay Area’s largest most comfortable charter vessels to fish with one of the state’s most talented rockfish and lingcod skippers it’s a bad day to be a bottomfish … Continued
On July 9th, a group of Cub Scouts from Fair Oaks Pack 215 boarded the Sea Wolf with aspirations of fishing the San Francisco Bay for striped bass, bottom fish, halibut and maybe a shark or two. As the boys … Continued
The Marin County Coast north of the Golden Gate Bridge is a much different world than the crowded urban region of San Francisco south of the bridge. The coast’s many attractions range from the tall, ancient redwoods of Muir Woods, … Continued