Went fishing in the bay

[lumpia]

and caught nothing but sharks. Figures...I launched out of San Leandro and started drifting anchovies as soon as I got outside of the markers. I've been trying lately out of Alameda along the rock wall for some halibut but only caught a big ole bat ray. No pics of that though. Anyone care to share any tips? I'm thinking of trolling the Bay Bridge for some stripers too.

 

[sohijiro]

cool little guy, hope you let him go

 

[lumpia]

Yeah, I caught and released a bunch of them that day. Just went to the delta yesterday and picked up a bunch of small stripers. I'm waiting to catch something I can KEEP and something I can EAT lol!

 

[Plus Ultra]

Good eating here.

Striped Marlin. Caught in Baja last week.

 

[mrhuthut]

hmmm?

would be hesitant to eat anything out of the bay its essentially the aquatic version of a landfill

 

[2nsane]

So did you ever hit up those spots I tole you about?

 

[Mike T]

when i went fishing around the oakland area...got mostly sharks...*hell...one followed us for a long time and we kept on catching it*

as for fishing tips....hell...i have none if it deals with ocean fishing since i barely go out and fish out there...besides Sac. River :teeth (gone once with my sisters friends)

caught some stripers (i think) and a catfish....other then that...nothing really

 

[InKoHoLiC]

When I lived in Texas my Unkle and I went fishing in the Gulf and caught a big shark..got home that night and made shark nuggets:thumbup..shark meat is yummy:drool

 

[Jimbo007]

Dunno much about shark, but for halibut, you wanna find a place where the bottom has some nice humps, sometimes if you find a tall stand of kelp, there will be a hump down at the bottom. They like to sit right on top. My old rig was a three-eyed swivel, then under the swivel, I'd use about two feet of line then a heavy jig head or swimbait (used basically just like a heavy sinker), then off the other leg, I'd use about four feet of line with, (I think they're called a spin-killer. It's a little plastic clip that you put on an anchovy's nose and it causes it to whirl like it's injured and it's got a big circle hook that dangles right next to the fish.

Now I work on a tugboat in Alaska and I've been learning different techniques from the guys up there. They don't use that rig, but just a great big hook with a big chunk of squid on it and a four pound lead weight about three feet from the hook.

I've also had a little luck with a herring-jig. I got a nice light-action rod and I use a one ounce jig. Drop it to the bottom, then bounce it up and down from about one foot off the bottom to about four feet off the bottom. Just let it drift down and then flick it back up.

Fishing in Alaska is a whole different story from down here. We got this beauty right before I came home from work three weeks ago. I kinda can't wait to go back:

That's a 170 lb. fish. We had to put the rescue boat in the water to get that thing on board. And you know what? The meat is just as good on the big ones.

 

[masameet]

:drool I love Alaskan halibut.

That's just great, Jimbo007!

 

[masameet]

would be hesitant to eat anything out of the bay its essentially the aquatic version of a landfill

Yup. High levels of mercury for one.

Fishheads though, or so I've been told, are great for fertilizer. I guess the mercury leaches into the soil and somehow doesn't transfer to the growing plants.

 

[Jimbo007]

Fishheads though, or so I've been told, are great for fertilizer. I guess the mercury leaches into the soil and somehow doesn't transfer to the growing plants.

Apparently starfish make the absolute best fertilizer. We get these huge ones called sunstars that are big and nasty and crawl into our shrimp pots.:thumbdown

 

[Sidewalk]

Now I work on a tugboat in Alaska and I've been learning different techniques from the guys up there.

I definitely miss Alaska. I don't miss the whole part about being on a boat to get there, but I miss being on land. Okay, sometimes the boat, but very rarely :laughing

I didn't fish, I went mountain biking.

 

[lumpia]

So did you ever hit up those spots I tole you about?

Not yet...I've been in Cancun for the past week and didn't get to go out much before I left. I am actually coming home tonight and am hoping to go out this weekend but my dad wants to go catfishing at his house near discovery bay.

I did get to hit up paradise up by san quentin and caught a couple halibuts but they were too small. After that it was shark city.

 

[lumpia]

Striped Marlin. Caught in Baja last week.

I went fishing in Cabo last year and caught about 8 30-40" yellowfins. The deckhand filleted that shit right on the boat and added some lime and soy sauce. Best sashimi EVARRR!!!!

Never had the pleasure of catching a marlin though. That thing thar is a beast!

 

[gsxrchick]

Berkeley Pier has been seeing some decent action but you are on a boat, which ironically is always guaranteed. Where did you launch in the delta and you should have def had some keeper action there.

 

[ThumperX]

Me I'd stay away from anything in the bay. The sediment plume coming through San Pablo Bay and under the Richmond Bridge is laden with pharmaceuticals.
If your boat is good to go out the gate hook right past Pt Bonita
There is some undisturbed sea floor between the channel and the bar
Used to be good for cod and the occasional small Halibut (caught on a cod jig)
screw the fishing the crabs are where it's at!!! But...no one knows where I drop my traps

 

[jondelicious]

tip:: take me fishing on the boat! hah i grew up fishing but once i hit high school none of my peers did it so i drifted from it but never gonna lose that love for fishing!