Wednesday, November 3 - Today and yesterday just goes to show how you can't judge what's going on in the ocean by what's happening on land. Gorgeous calm blue skies and temperatures in the 70s or higher all around the Bay. Great time to go fishing on the ocean, right? Nope...a HUGE swell forecast to be 13 to 15 feet rolled in on Tuesday and is supposed to hang around until Wednesday afternoon, but then it will dramatically drop by Thursday morning right back to the 6 to 8 foot range we more or less expect this time of year. Needless to say, we cancelled our trips on Tuesday and Wednesday. Our trips for Thursday and Friday are also scratched, not because of the weather, but because Bob is attending the last set of Pacific Fishery Management Council meetings for this year down in Costa Mesa. We will be back running rockfishing trips on both Saturday and Sunday this weekend, and there's still plenty of room available on both days. We made our first official end-of-season Pigeon Point trip on Monday with a couple of handfuls of guys who made fairly quick work of catching limits of bottomfish. With lots of room at the rail, even Capt. Bob dusted off his old favorite fishing rod. Heather immediately started ribbing Bob when he didn't hook a fish on his first drop, so, what'd he do? Hooked a keeper lingcod on his second cast just to show he remembers how to do it (and, boy, was it tasty!). Back when I first met Bob almost 30 years ago he used to lay the fish away, but ever since DFG made the regulation a few years ago that makes it illegal for crew members to give fish they catch to customers, Bob doesn't put a line in the water very often. Without a doubt, it's pretty amazing to witness how in tune Bob is bouncing a lure off the ocean bottom. What else should be expected after taking folks fishing day after day, season after season for well over the past 25 years out of Half Moon Bay....

Queen of Hearts
Half Moon Bay Sportfishing and Tackle
Pillar Point Harbor, Half Moon Bay, CA
Phone 510.581.2628
http://www.fishingboat.com/