San Francisco Area Ocean Reports 6/15/06

[Wahoo!]

Golden Gate: After the fed-imposed two days off from fishing, the sun
came up Wednesday, and that warmed the soul. The motors coughed to life,
boats made their way through the dawn and over the bay, look at them,
nosing out to sea. They made the required haul, past Pirate's Cove and
Double Point and Drake's Bay, clear up to Point Reyes Buoy, where there
were the expected humpback whales and birds, muttering anglers, bait
marks on the meter, all you really need to succeed in this endeavor of
filling fish boxes with salmon. Borrowing on recent success, the
moochers got to mooching, riding the tide, while their hooked anchovies
danced below. That was them. The boats set up for trolling kept pushing
along, another 8 miles or so uphill. The day wore on. It was incredibly
good and it was incredibly average, depending on how you went about it.
Nobody openly gloated, but the scores looked like this:
Trolling, the El Dorado had 23 limits to 21 pounds, Blue Runner 14
limits to 21 pounds, New Salmon Queen 22 limits to 29 pounds, El Dorado
III 40 salmon to 24 pounds for 23, Outer Limits 38 to 24 for 25, and the
New Rayann 12 limits to 16 pounds. Drifting, though, the New Seeker
boxed 19 to 18 for 20, Butchie B 11 to 18 for 20, and the Wacky Jacky
six salmon to 18 pounds for 16 customers.
For the record, the moochers fairly set the salmon-catching world on
fire with their scores last Thursday and through the weekend, with
limits all days. Again, Monday and Tuesday were dark. And you know about
Wednesday.
Other places: Bodega Bay is fishing well, and the boats are fishing
closer to home, with most of the action right off Bird Rock, above
Ten-Mile Beach ... And, finally, there finally is excellent fishing out
of Pillar Point. Boats large and small (fine day for it, with light wind
and no swell) were on salmon schools to the south of harbor, some 10-17
miles down and out toward the Deep Reef. The New Capt., we know, had
nine early limits to 25 pounds. The Gravy was in there with eight limits
to 27 pounds, and the Tigerfish boated seven limits to 25 pounds. The
numbers were 17 and 37 on the GPS, if you're looking.
Looking ahead: It looks horrible. The weather wags are calling for 15-20
knots of a blow by Friday, then 25-35 over the weekend.

[El Kabong]

Wow, what a great report!!