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California Winter Wonderland: Rockfish, Crab, and Steelhead Galore
Published 4 months, 1 week ago
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Hey folks, Artificial Lure here, your go-to guy for Pacific Ocean angling off California's coast. It's a crisp winter morning, sunrise hit around 7:20 AM with sunset by 4:50 PM per Tide-Forecast.com. Tides today show low at 8:30 AM around 0.05 ft, high 3:42 PM at 0.26 ft, then low 10:01 PM—perfect for bottom bouncing as fish hug structure on the outgoing.
Weather's holding mild with calm seas through Saturday, but batten down for a big storm Sunday night bringing rain and swells, says Fishing the North Coast reports. Rockfish and lingcod are firing hot—yesterday's Berkeley counts from NorCalFishReports had California Dawn with 17 anglers hauling 170 Dungeness crab and 130 rockfish, while California Dawn II limited 22 folks on 220 each. Sausalito's Outer Limits matched with 200 rockfish and crab per 20 anglers. Up north, Shelter Cove's Sea Hawk nailed limits at The Hat and Old Man spots. Even a monster 10.25-pound canary rockfish smashed records off Mendocino last week.
Dungeness limits are stacking up coastwide, but skip rock crab viscera—CDPH warns of domoic acid from NorCal to Sonoma/Mendo line. Steelhead gearing up on rivers like the Smith with incoming rain pushing bright fish from the salt.
For lures, go heavy jigs like 8-16 oz yo-yo irons in bright pink or chartreuse for rockfish—mimic squid or anchovies. Swimbaits on dropper loops shine for lings. Live bait? Frozen squid, anchovies, or mackerel from Squidco Fishing tackle the bill; bloodworms if shore-bound.
Hot spots: Hit Shelter Cove for rockfish/lings at The Hat, or Berkeley flats for crab-rockfish combos. Bundle up, check CDFW regs—red abalone's closed till '36.
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Weather's holding mild with calm seas through Saturday, but batten down for a big storm Sunday night bringing rain and swells, says Fishing the North Coast reports. Rockfish and lingcod are firing hot—yesterday's Berkeley counts from NorCalFishReports had California Dawn with 17 anglers hauling 170 Dungeness crab and 130 rockfish, while California Dawn II limited 22 folks on 220 each. Sausalito's Outer Limits matched with 200 rockfish and crab per 20 anglers. Up north, Shelter Cove's Sea Hawk nailed limits at The Hat and Old Man spots. Even a monster 10.25-pound canary rockfish smashed records off Mendocino last week.
Dungeness limits are stacking up coastwide, but skip rock crab viscera—CDPH warns of domoic acid from NorCal to Sonoma/Mendo line. Steelhead gearing up on rivers like the Smith with incoming rain pushing bright fish from the salt.
For lures, go heavy jigs like 8-16 oz yo-yo irons in bright pink or chartreuse for rockfish—mimic squid or anchovies. Swimbaits on dropper loops shine for lings. Live bait? Frozen squid, anchovies, or mackerel from Squidco Fishing tackle the bill; bloodworms if shore-bound.
Hot spots: Hit Shelter Cove for rockfish/lings at The Hat, or Berkeley flats for crab-rockfish combos. Bundle up, check CDFW regs—red abalone's closed till '36.
Thanks for tuning in, folks—subscribe for daily bites! This has been a Quiet Please production, for more check out quietplease.ai.
Great deals on fishing gear https://amzn.to/44gt1Pn
This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI