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Been a long time coming, but the Salmon Season is arriving this weekend on April 3rd, 2010!
Going to be going out on a 17 foot Boston Whaler out of Santa Cruz, California early on Saturday morning in hopes of hooking up with a few of the red meat fish. It has been a few years for so many people to have the chance to go and do this once again, hopefully the weather will cooperate.
The latest reports from local friends along the Monterey Bay and Half Moon Bay parts of California is that the salmon are out there, so you bet my crew will already have the bait and gas ready when it comes time to go to bed on Friday night. Our current plan is to head down to water a few miles off Moss Beach and to do some mooching with dead anchovies. Mooching is fishing with the engine turned off with bait on a hook, and some weight to get the bait down to the desired depth. This method is my favorite for salmon in the ocean as it allows you to feel the bite and set the hook on your own. Also, it allows you to catch some sleep if you like with the hope of getting woken up by the sound of a fish pulling line against the drag. Some people like using sardines for bait, and yet a very select few will use dead squid for bait when hunting for salmon. I personally have never used the squid, but a few fishing buddies swear by it.
As for the fishing regulations, right now the rules for most of California are 2 salmon per person per day, and the minimum size is 20 inches. Coho need to be thrown back to get those growing in numbers once again.
My hope is to be able to bring you all kinds of reports of how the action is and how things go down on the fishing side of things, if you have any great news to report on your end, feel free to comment it below.
Good Luck Fishing,
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