Santa Cruz shore based fishing

Hi,

I went fishing a couple of times during this weekend to Santa Cruz. It was quite dead. All I managed to hook after a total of around 7 hours combined was a striped surfperch and a small grass rockfish. I tried octopus, shrimp and squid without differences in action.

Regards
N.

Thanks for the report. I was thinking of making a trip to there or Capitola perhaps soon. Must be a transitional time there. I was thinking the barred perch were there and maybe striper or late halibut; perhaps not?

Hi 'Red Fish'.

You can try. I went this weekend as well and there was some more action, mostly perches, but not a lot.
I was also getting a lot of bites from kelpfish (or similar), that were very good at stealing my bait. Thinking they were smaller perches I changed my hooks to #6 or smaller to get few of those. Beautiful fishes, but annoying when they are continuously stealing bait and getting hooked and you want to get something else. Didn't see them before.

Regards
N.