Half Moon Bay Fishing Report and Whale Watching

Over the past week party boats have had to cancel their trips due to the strong coastal winds. The weather is starting to lay down here on Tuesday 6-23 and the forecast (posted below) calls for great conditions through Saturday. We will post reports as soon as boats from the Huck Finn Sportfishing Center make it back out to the local reefs and Farallon Islands. Water temps at the coastal weather buoys have dropped by as must as 10 degrees in just the past few days. This is great news and means we will see favorable feed conditions for young salmon that will make up next years salmon run and rockfish which have made up for years of fishery mis-mananagement due to the salmon closure. The Huck Finn Center has room daily this week.

POINT REYES TO PIGEON POINT TO 10 NM-
231 PM PDT TUE JUN 23 2009
.TONIGHT...W WINDS 10 TO 20 KT. WIND WAVES 2 TO 4 FT. NW SWELL 7 TO 9 FT AT 9 SECONDS. PATCHY FOG.
.WED...SW WINDS 5 TO 15 KT. WIND WAVES 1 TO 3 FT. NW SWELL 6 TO 7 FT AT 9 SECONDS. PATCHY FOG.
.WED NIGHT...S WINDS 5 TO 15 KT. WIND WAVES 1 TO 3 FT. NW SWELL 6 TO 7 FT AT 9 SECONDS. PATCHY FOG.
.THU...S WINDS 5 TO 15 KT. WIND WAVES 1 TO 3 FT. NW SWELL 6 TO 7 FT. PATCHY FOG.
.THU NIGHT...SW WINDS 5 TO 10 KT. WIND WAVES 2 FT OR LESS. NW SWELL 8 TO 10 FT. PATCHY FOG.
.FRI...S WINDS 5 TO 15 KT...BECOMING W 15 TO 25 KT. WIND WAVES 2 TO 5 FT. NW SWELL 8 TO 10 FT. PATCHY FOG.
.SAT...W WINDS 5 TO 15 KT...INCREASING TO 15 TO 25 KT. WIND WAVES 3 TO 5 FT. NW SWELL 7 TO 9 FT. PATCHY FOG.
.SUN...W WINDS 15 TO 25 KT. WIND WAVES 3 TO 5 FT. NW SWELL 6 TO 8 FT. PATCHY FOG.

The rockfish season has finally got under way in the local waters. On Saturday 6-13 the Huck Finn Sport Center had 5 boats out on a glassy calm ocean. All boats worked the local reefs with most venturing south to Martin's beach, San G and down to Bean Hollow. The six pack Gravy had 6 limits of rockfish while it's larger sister the New Gravy with captain Kelly reported 13 limits. The Que Sera Sera had 7 limits of rockfish and the Connie O had 7 limits as well. The Ankeny Street was an a half dayer and had 50 rockfish for 6 anglers. All captains said they had lots of big vermilion and some nice coppers in the sacks. The forecast calls for calm weather into Tuesday.
The Huck Finn Sport Center is booking conventional and live bait rockfishing trips throughout the summer on 6 owner operated boats. 650 726-7133.

The Huck Finn Center has room all this week for Pigeon Point rockfishing trips. They are also booking halibut trolling trips on the New Captain Pete who is running out of Oyster Point daily until the local rockfish season opens on June 13th. Reservations can be made at 650 726-7133

Git off U'r Butt!
We here at USAFishing strongly support fishery conservation, unfortunately we can't say the same of most California "sport" anglers. We are at a crossroads and unless anglers support conservation groups (that our currently waging a losing battle against the multi-million $ water lobby) we will lose every key fishery that is connected to the delta. If you think that these "water issues" won't affect your favorite fishery you are likely wrong. The effects will be widespread and include the continued closure of California and Oregon saltwater salmon fisheries.
The state water projects are being consolidated and the governor is looking to toss the only Bay-Delta protections we have and ship water from Shasta and Oroville directly to LA swimming pools and subsidized cotton farmers in Westland's. If these water projects go through you can kiss goodbye (as in forever) what is left of our salmon runs, and our striper and sturgeon fisheries will continue to decline. We don't have an ocean salmon season this year or last because of too much water being pumped from the delta. If these water projects get passed we will have none in the future. At no time in the past has it been so critical that anglers understand these issues and support the work that the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance is doing.
Bottom line..... It's time to get off your butt and support the CSPA or in a few short years there will be NO salmon, striper and sturgeon fisheries and they won't ever recover.
No group has done more over the past two decades to protect fisheries than CSPA. In the past two months USAFishing readers have raised nearly $10,000 for CSPA but much much more is needed. Please visit their website and learn more about all the great work they are doing.
Become part of the solution and support the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance today!
Mike Aughney

The Huck Finn Center is taking reservations for rockfish throughout the summer months and Bay halibut trips on the New Captain Pete from April and through June 13th. Dennis will return to HMB in the summer for LIVE BAIT rockfishing trips. Please call the Huck Finn Sportfishing Center for reservations at 650 726-7133

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Party Boat Contacts:
The Huck Finn Sportfishing Center is taking reservations for rockfish and ling trips 650 726-7133

New Captain Pete Sportfishing with captain Dennis Baxter is now taking reservations for charters (650) 726-6224

Great Links:
Fishermen, check out DF&Gs easy-to-use California Ocean Sport Fishing Regulations Map. Simply click the marine location where you plan to fish, and you will access a list of Sport Fishing Regulations for that area.

Reports will resume when salmon reopens in 2010

Reports resume in July of 2009 or when the longfins return.