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January 04, 2009    Headlines

Crab Counts Wane
Emeryville Scores Squid


Very few boats have been venturing out on the salt due to a combination of the breezy weather and the holidays but party boats are now back out. Craig Stone of Emeryville Sport Fishing reported the New Salmon Queen went in search of Humboldt squid southwest of the Farallon Islands with 11 anglers on Sunday 1-4. They boated 35 squid with a solid 35-pound average. They are scheduled squid trips this coming weekend on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The marine weather has improved here on Sunday after a couple of days of sloppy swelly conditions. Currently we are seeing variable north winds of 3 to 7 knots over a 5 to 6 foot swell with an average period of 9 seconds. The forecast calls for winds to clock around to the south on Monday as a weak weather front slides through the Bay Area. Winds speeds will be between 10 and 20 knots and swell heights are forecasted to increase to the 9 to 12 foot range through Tuesday.
Sheryl Jimno of the Rusty Hook in Pacifica said it was COLD! today in Pacifica with a temperature of 28 degrees at Vallemar Station. There was frost and ice on car windows this morning. The cold weather hasn't kept crabbers from working the pier for Dungeness crab on mackerel, squid or anchovies with surf perch or kingfish on blood or pile worms.


Over the next few months we will be concentrating our reports on our bay, delta and river fisheries. Ocean reports will be updated as news trickles in but other than scratch crabbing and squid there will few excuses to venture out on the ocean for the next several months. Please visit our other pages for fish reports over the winter.


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Party boat contacts:
The Emeryville Sportfishing Center is currently booking potluck and sturgeon trips. They have a great promotion that when you take six trips your "lucky" seventh trip is free. This is good on any of their boats. Reservations can be made at 510 654-6040.

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5-day plot - Wind Speed at 46026

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