Every Trip Is Different:

This week I challenged a few new customers. 

On New Year’s Eve, Dave chartered the boat for 3 passengers and had limits for his crew(3 sturgeon)and (1 for the crew).

Yesterday 2/4/2012 Dave put together another crew. This crew also included his wife, father and friend of the family.

  Dave’s wife, Crystal, put the whoop’ in on a 61 inch fish at the end of the day.

The sturgeon fishing was very tough. The Local fish have been pounded by the derbies and boat traffic.

The fleet has been concentrating in some deeper water just East of the Bridge and around Buoy 2. There were allot of boats on Friday, the day before the derby, most just stayed there all day, hoping to get lucky on one of the few fish passing by.

  I took a chance and actually looked for some fish. Squatting and rotting isn’t my style. We found another small group of fish at Roe and Ryer Isl. This group went through pretty fast, as the current started to flow on the ebb tide.  We hooked a few shakers. Seeing that the current was going to get faster, we looked in some shallow water and worked our way back to the Benicia Bridge, stopping in deeper water and waiting for the current to slow. 

The patience of the crew and the hard work from the Deck hand, ZAK, took a day that didn’t seem very fishy in to a challenging battle of wit and patience.

Please take the time to read the prior post . Our rates are going up.