Crabbing season got started and I've been dying to get my piece of
the pie. Made plans for a trip and got Deni and our friend Jazzy to come
along with. Got on the water around 0900 and found a ton of people out
on the Jetty. It is the weekend (Sunday, 11/11/12). Met my good friend
Daryl out there on the jetty and we all tried our snares and crab hawks.
Asking around on my way out here pretty much no one had anything or
maybe only one crab. Action was slow. The few crabs I did see come in
from fisherman around me all looked like this.
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Short females full of roe. This is the only crab I managed to catch today.
Deni got one herself.
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Jazzy managed to get this rock crab.
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That was the amount of our action as far as crabbing went. Regardless of how crabbing was it was a beautiful day on the water.
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Jazzy enjoying the day.
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Trying for some crab.
Deni trying to hide from the sun.
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One of the locals.
We tried here till 1300, but by then the tide has gone out and it was
poke poling time. Hopped off of the jetty and made our way to the coast
guard station. We saw a pretty awesome sand castle some kids were
working on when we got there.
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picture from the front side
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Walked over saw one guy throwing a brush hog around and sticking a few
small rock fish in the kelp. I threw some squid out at first, but it
never got touched. Just to try real quick I dropped some squid into a
couple of holes to see if I could get an eel real quick. Not much later I
found one willing to bite.
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That's good for me, time to switch for rockfish. I enjoy catching them a
little more. Tied on a white tube texas rigged and worked around the
rocks and kelp. Didn't take long for me to find some active fish.
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While I was doing this Deni and Jazzy were
slamming some eels.
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Nice double of a few keepers
Jazzy even managed to get her first ever rockfish poking around in the rocks.
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The wind and current pushed a bunch of kelp over on top of the rocks
which made it really hard for the girls to poke pole, but the rock
fishing was excellent. I ended up punching through the kelp with my tube
and getting plenty of bites from the rock fish. I even managed to slam
this short cabby.
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Actually my first ever cabezon I've ever caught which was way cool.
Deni managed to get a few small rockfish too while poke poling for some eels.
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I filled my limit of rockfish and after that I ran around to see if I could dig up a few clams.
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Couple of kids on the beach saw me digging in the sand and wanted to join in on the fun.
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I never found anything though. If any clammers out there can tell me
what to look for when looking for a hole, which hole is a clam or not.
Must have dug a dozen holes or so for nothing or just small clams, not
the gapers I was looking for. Stayed until sundown then ran over to the
cleaning station to get all of my rockfish cleaned up. First time to
this cleaning station I have to say I thought Amador's was bad, but
everything about this station was kind of just a pain to deal with. It
is still much nicer though to do the main part of my cleaning here and
not at home.
Awesome day on the water, was pretty bummed about the crabbing, but it
was still an awesome day here at bodega. Hopefully next time we can get
some crabs to take home. Now that I got the boat I'll probably pick up a
few crab rings and drop them out while were waiting on low tide. Maybe
next time.
Until Then Guys
Mark
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