San Francisco Ocean Fishing Reports 6/1/06

[Wahoo!]

Golden Gate: If your boat and/or sea legs can handle the long run,
there's a limit of salmon here for you. The bite is 6 miles west of
Point Reyes Lighthouse (38-04-123-06 on your GPS). From Point Bonita,
that's a 32-mile journey. From, say, Fisherman's Wharf, the ride is
two-plus hours on your average party boat. Now that we've got all that
out of the way, the fishing: All but one of the big boats rang up limits
Wednesday. They had no wind, they had wide-open salmon fishing, they had
a very good day.
The scores: Butchie B with 12 limits to 18 pounds, Outer Limits 22
limits to 20, El Dorado 20 limits to 21, New El Dorado III 18 limits to
21, New Salmon Queen 18 limits to 18, New Seeker 17 limits to 22, and
the Wacky Jacky 30 salmon to 31 pounds for 21 anglers.
Now this: Some of the skippers noted "better" sign closer in, toward
Double Point, where there was dark water, dense stacks of bait and
feeding whales. There also was dense fog, and the boats kept right on
going. One boat stayed back (way back) to fish, however, trolling Muir
Beach to Gull Rock to Stinson Beach and back. And, for the day, The
Dandy out of Emeryville landed 11 salmon to 18 pounds for six customers.

Other places: Solid salmon fishing from Bodega Bay, too, with Will's
Bait and Tackle's (707-875-2323) six-pack charters boxing limits the
past three days. Wednesday, the Payback was in at 1 p.m. with six
limits. The boats are trolling off Elephant Rock, no more than 11/2
miles offshore ... It all looks right and good out toward the Deep Reef,
with bait (krill and sardines) and birds and lunge-feeding whales. Which
makes the scores for the Half Moon Bay boats all the more disappointing.
Partial scores, at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, had the New Capt. Pete with 11
salmon to 15 pounds for a charter of nine, the Riptide with six to 20
for four, and the Queen of Hearts with eight to 13 for six. The boats
also released several silver salmon, and one or two that could have been
a coho or a king (purple back, gray gums, large, irregular spots, smooth
tail, what the hell?). Anyway, with the conditions seemingly so fishy,
this area could (and should) break open any day. ... They're still not
doing much out of Monterey. Tuesday, a boat from Chris's Sportfishing
caught three salmon near the surface, no more than 10 feet down, and
lost another five. Next party boat to go, though, landed just one
salmon.