Provided by Dana Wharf Sportfishing
The nice weather all week really set things up good on both the 1/2 and 3/4-day scene.
1/2-day anglers fished 66° water all week — very nice conditions. Hard bottom zones produced some nice sand bass and sheephead. A few days we had the boat in tight along the boiler rocks for some fun calico bass on the live anchovy and rubber lures. Still seeing some halibut on the dropper loop rigs too. Whitefish and sculpin rounded out the 1/2-day counts.
Out in the rockfish sectors, the 3/4-day fishing has continued to be fantastic. 550–800′ on the 14 has been the depths we’ve been catching best in. Dropper-looped live baits or fresh dead squid produced well on the bank rockfish and chili pepper rockfish. Jig anglers mopped up the cod too this week — those same epic conditions from the inside were in play on the bank, so jigs in the 250–350 range fished perfectly. Reds, pinks, and blues were the colors that got bit well.
Off the beach, the Fury has been either at Clemente or on the banks fishing bluefin. Smaller-grade bluefin, 10–20 lb stuff, bit relatively easy this week on the flylined baits. A few yellows on the banks as well — that fish was in the 12–25 lb range.
At Clemente, the island is covered in squid, so the yellowtail fishing there has slowed up a bit, but still some nice 25 lbers being caught. Bass fishing in the kelp has been great too, and mixed rockfish filled bags at the end of the day as a nice topper offer as well.
The Reel Fun ran a hoop net lobster charter Saturday night and had great results — 13 keepers with over 100 shorts.
