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November 19, 2019    Headlines

Crab /Rockfish Limits

The crab counts are holding up with most private boats and all six packs and party boats finding limits. After an extended delay due in part to the fires and resulting black outs the Reel

Magic is back on the water. The boat is running great and we deployed our crab gear on Monday 11-18. Our first trip will be on Wednesday. The weather has been great.
Captain Rick Powers of Bodega Bay Sport Fishing continues to load up on limits of Dungeness crab and rockfish along with a few lings cod. He said, “We were tied up at the docks at 1:00 p.m. on Sunday 11-17 afternoon with 48 limits of rockfish and jumbo Dungeness crab along with 8 ling cod to 16 pounds with the bottom fish taken down south off of Point Reyes. The rockfish were biting like ‘wild dogs,’ and the limits came in fast and furious. The fact that we are back so early after an hour run down south is phenomenal. We are running every day this week, and the loads will be much lighter during the weekdays.”
There is a ton of commercial boats staging for the opener which after a week long delay looks to open this weekend. They will be carpet bombing the local waters and if the weather holds local markets will quickly plug with crabs.

We continue to see incredible weather, crabbing and rockfishing. On Wednesday 11-6 all the six packs are seeing limits of crabs and rockfish and most adding limits of lings. i spoke to Jeff on the Samantha Irene around 11 am and he had limits of rockfish and needed just five more lings for full limits fishing off Ft Ross. All the other sixpacks from Arron on the Ghost, Josh on the Take Five and Bob on the Relentless are seeing similar scores.
Rick on the New Sea Angler reported a whopping 48 limits of rockfish, 16 lings to 17 pounds and full limits of crabs. The weather has 

 

The dungeness crab season opened this weekend to great weather and 1000s of anglers converging on  Bodega Bay. All the party and six packs reported easy limits of both crabs and rockfish. Some sixpacks ran to 3 to 4 trips for easy limits of crabs. Other found snapping rockfish and lings at Ft Ross. Jeff on the Samantha Irene had three trips for limits for all on board. Rick on the New Sea Angler reported 45 limits of rockfish and crabs adding 15 lings on Saturday 11-2. On Sunday 11-3 Rick had 44 limits of rockfish and crabs adding 66 lings to 22 pounds. The Reel Magic is still in the middle of a full engine replacment but should be back on the water later this week. The weather was flat glassy calm all weekend with temps into the high 70s
 

Private boaters are seeing scores of 0 to 3 salmon trolling and mooching along Ten mile beach and up to Bird Rock. Rick Powers of Bodega Bay Sport Fishing said, “The ling cod bite has been off the charts as both the lings and dinosaur rockfish are snapping. We went south to Point Reyes on Saturday 10-12 for 27 limits of big dinosaur rockfish along with 27 limits of ling cod to 22 pounds with the lings averaging from 12 to 14 pounds. There were big coppers, vermilions, and browns in the sacks, and guys went off the boat with 50- to 60-pound sacks of fish. The ocean conditions have been excellent, and we will be taking some albacore trips in the coming week. However, it has been hard to beat the rockfish action as Friday’s haul produced 17 limits of big rockfish along with 20 lings to 16 pounds at Point Reyes, and we put in a bonus 9-pound salmon off of Ten Mile Beach.”

Captain Merlin Kolb of Reel Magic Sport Fishing has been picking up some decent albacore scores on the 34-foot catamaran, the Reel Magic, and they posted 8 longfins to 23 pounds on Saturday trolling Mexican Flag Clones and Cedar Plugs in Mackerel patterns 46 miles west northwest of Bodega Head.  Kolb went rockfishing on Sunday for great results with three limits of rockfish and ling cod off of Bird Rock in 180 feet of water.
The Dungeness crab opener is only a few weeks away, and the Bodega area boats, campgrounds and hotels are going to fill up quickly. The Reel Magic has room weekdays through November but the weekends are full.

The salmon action has been slow the past few days but the rockfish action is solid and there are tuna offshore when the weather cooperates. On Saturday 9-6 the Reel Magic had limits of rockfish  and a ling per rod. The Reel Magic will ne running for tuna on Sunday. Please see our FB report later tonight.
Rick on the New Sea Angler reported 29 limits of rockfish adding 52 lings to 18 pounds for their 29 clients. Rick will also be offering some limited tuna trips and rockfishing this week. The weather has been breezy the past two days but looks to lay out on Sunday. Lots of private boats and at least one sixpack will be running on Sunday and Monday.


Owner / operator captain Merlin Kolb is bringing his 34 foot twin diesel catamaran the "Reel Magic" to Bodega bay this month. He will be offering salmon / rockfish and crabbing trips through the spring and summer months. Merlin is a well known local captain who is excited to finally be running his own operation. 707 875-BOAT (2628) or 707 479-0992.

New Sea Angler Sportfishing. Captain Rick is offering rockfish and salmon trips daily 707 875-3344

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Nearly all the salmon caught along the coast this year are there thanks to the Golden Gate Salmon Association. If not for their efforts to push both state and federal hatchery managers to truck fish over the past three years of drought we would have likely NOT had a season this year or next. I encourage readers to support this great organization and their efforts to return our salmon fishery to it's past glory. You can visit their website and see all that they are doing to make that a reality.

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 The Bodega Bay Sportfishing  Center is currently booking trips on the New Sea Angler. They also book the six pack Sandy Ann, Profishn't and during the summer the Predator. Reservations can be made at 707 875-3344.
 
 
 
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5-day plot - Wind Speed at 46013

5-day plot - Wave Height at 46013

Marine Weather
 With the Point Arena, San Francisco and Bodega Bay buoys all out of service it's been tough to judge conditions. There are some land based weather stations, wave rider and even webcams that readers can use to assess current conditions.  The Point Reyes wind observations or wave conditions at the San Francisco wave rider buoy are good tools for Golden Gate anglers.  For Bodega Bay anglers you can use both the Point Reyes wind observations and the Bodega Bay Marine lab web cam at Horseshoe Cove and conditions at the Point Arena light house. For Monterey based anglers looking for conditions inside Monterey bay can use the Monterey Bay Aquarium buoy.

 
 

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