A.M. trip — The last couple of days have been slow salmon fishing, but today was a very successful rock cod trip. We fished back down below Pt. Cabrillio lighthouse in 50 to 90 feet of water. The weather still very nice and the big lings were out feeding. We ended up with 8 lings topping the scales at 19 pounds! Eric Stolpe from Redwood Valley landed the big one. There were a few others over 10 pounds. Rockfish scores were from 7 to 10 per angler. We had some nice Vermillion’s and quite a few big black rockfish.

We decided to give the salmon a couple of days off. Today we went south down by the town of Mendocino. The ocean is still flat. I’m getting used to this nice ocean stuff. The rockfishing is not a wide open bite, but we didn’t have to work too hard to get nice bags of fish. We ended up just short of a dozen lings and nice bags of fish. It was very enjoyable to be on the water. Josh Admire won the big fish pot with the first fish landed on the boat. A 12 pound green ling cod! We had some kids on the boat today. They all caught nice fish and had a great time! Fish-On!

Picture left to right; Caitlinn and Chloe Price fromLarue Oh., Thomas Baker from Craig Co. and in the back with deckhand Kris Kraft is Hayden Wright from Cameron Park

Salmon fishing slowed down. The ocean is calm and winds are light. There’s no problem finding the birds and bait in the water. Plenty of it to go around. Maybe too much. The salmon don’t seem to be hungry. On Friday, the first fish we hooked was too big to fit in our fish box. It was a Thresher shark. There was no stopping it with the gear we were using. It came out of the water like a sailfish at one point. My best guess is it was 300 to 400 pounds. Incredible sight. The woman who hooked it ended up being the only angler to land a salmon. It was a nice one too! 31 pounds caught by Sharon Albert out of Sea Ranch. Nice job Sharon!