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Good Morning Anglers and Happy Friday! Live Bait is now available and we'll be running live bait Halibut and Striped Bass trips for the foreseeable future. Yesterday's Fish Counts - 04-17-2025 Sea Wolf • Full Day • 15 • 150 Rockfish, 27 Lingcod Dock

4/17/25. Today we had a 1/2 day charter and finished up with 10 beautiful halibut & 4 delicious bass!!! We have lots of room TOMORROW & MONDAY for a full day trip, SUNDAY for a 1/2 day trip. Make your

The main stem Eel is still a little big, but the color is looking good. As of Wednesday, flows were at 6,500 cfs at Scotia and it should be plenty fishable by the weekend. The main stem Eel to the

The Smith is currently running low and clear, with flows right around 3,600 cfs on the Jed Smith gauge as of Wednesday. It will continue to drop slowly with no measurable rain in the immediate forecast. Fishing pressure continues to

At the March Pacific Fishery Management Council (PFMC) meeting, the Council voted on and approved three alternatives for ocean salmon fisheries along the California coast for 2025. Alternatives one and two lay out severely abbreviated seasons with strict harvest limits

Solid fishing today as we found around 3 fish per rod between bass and halibut. Well still have spots available for tomorrow, Friday and Sunday as we inch closer to live bait season which should kick off any day now. Final count 11

Lower Twin and the Creeks have been stocked!

Diamond • Full Day • 6 anglers • 12 Striped Bass • 5 Halibut  Pacific Pearl • 1/2 Day AM • 5 anglers • 9 Striped Bass • 4 Halibut  Sea Wolf • Full Day • 24 anglers • 240 Rockfish • 13 Lingcod  * 2025 Salmon Season is a GO!! Most

The deep water rock fishing was good for anglers near Davenport and Wilder Ranch. The weather was not bad in the mid morning. There have been a few halibut caught near the harbor and in Capitola.

TROPHY CUTBOW ALERT Dean Ryan with the biggest Cutbow I’ve seen this year weighing in at 13.6 POUNDS!! He caught it on green garlic Powerbait somewhere off the Spillway road. What a catch!! #gofishing #GoOutside #anglers #letsgo #adventure #family #fishing #trout #cutbowtrout

Catfish alert at San Pablo Reservoir We just planted 4,500 lbs of catfish at the main rec.

On April 15, 2025, the Pacific Fishery Management Council (PFMC) acted to recommend limited fishing opportunities for California’s recreational ocean salmon fisheries through the end of 2025. This decision will allow for the first recreational salmon fishing in California since