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Hi all, I'm sadly moving from California for at least the next year and some of my existing tackle won't be applicable anymore. I was a very novice fisherman before discovering PFIC (and still am in many ways) but PFIC let me discover a whole new world and really up my game. I wanted to give...

Yesterday, I was fishing with a sabiki for perch and ended up with some bycatch of salmon smolts and the world's smallest lingcod. All obviously released. First time having either of those happen in my recent years of fishing the Bay. Something to be wary if you frequent these piers of as the...

As I fish more I have begun to do piers less and more surf, bank, poke-poling, and rockfishing. Part of it is the solitude and spot discovery which can make the trip all the more rewarding. However, my gear has not kept up as well with this change. I usually have a pair of waders I wear (cheap...

Very brief report this time around. I went on Monday for some of the favorable swells near the Ocean Beach area--or so the forecast said. The swells ultimately ended up being a bit more aggressive than what I wanted -- I had near 12oz of weight on one of my homemade snares and it was still being...

I sadly haven’t had a chance to fish too much in the past months with many personal and professional obligations, so I was excited to venture out for the first time in a while for the fall SF Bay run. It turned out that last night was maybe the best fishing night of my life in terms of action...

Today I saw a spiny lobster caught (and poached) in one of the piers in SF Bay today. The people were crabbing and it was caught in a hoop net with the typical crab bait. No accurate guess on the length; I'd say it looked close to the one in Ken's article captioned "A Spiny Lobster from the...

Not really an exceptional fishing report here, but a catch story of persistence :D I drove down to the California coast to try my luck at some surfperch fishing again on the coast. My first attempt on Christmas Eve was fortunately successful (I tend have decent beginners luck when trying some...

Conditions: Fished 1pm to 6pm, high tide was at 2pm. Gear: Had one rod out hoping to catch a leopard shark (I've only actually ever caught small ones in the bay) and used primarily squid and thawed sardines. Had another rod with a Sabiki that I later switched to a hi-lo rigged w/ size 4 hooks...

https://www.berkeleyside.com/2020/08/27/north-berkeley-senior-center-rose-garden-among-first-45-t1-projects https://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Measure-T1-Phase-2-Presentation-Neighborhood-Groups-2020-08-20.pdf Unfortunately, I moved to California after Berkeley Pier had...

Parking finally opened up at Paradise Pier on June 1 and I decided to stop by on my day off. Got there around 10pm and the pier was actually pretty full, most people staggered about 6 ft apart. The winds were pretty brutal but it was very quiet on the pier save for the howling winds. People...