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  1. Kirby34

    Any recent reports from the Santa Cruz area?

    Fished in Aptos last Friday morning for my first outing since January. It was solid salad everywhere. Of course, I didn't bring any of my top water stuff. Sorry that I don't have anything more recent than that as, at best, we only make it over the hill every other week.
  2. Kirby34

    Pacifica Pier Closed

    My understanding is that Half Moon Bay and Pacifica are closing all their beach parking lots - that's in addition to the state beach lots that were already closing per the governor's orders. I wonder if Santa Cruz will be next.
  3. Kirby34

    Fishing?

    We were in Aptos this morning right as high tide peaked. Landed 2 barred perch within the first 20 minutes, one of which was the largest I've ever caught. It was right around 16". We lamented not having a scale. It was a female and I released it. Caught a male a few minutes later which was...
  4. Kirby34

    Fishing?

    I'm going fishing tomorrow morning with my brother. We tried crabbing last week in the drizzle in SF, but got skunk'd.
  5. Kirby34

    Strangest way you've ever landed/hooked fish?

    This is a pic of the lingcod I mentioned above. Excuse the poor angle which doesn't show how its head was caught in one of the crab snare loops.
  6. Kirby34

    Strangest way you've ever landed/hooked fish?

    Although I didn't catch it myself, I can say the strangest thing I've seen happened just this morning as I witnessed someone land a lingcod with a crab snare from a pier. It was keeper length, too.
  7. Kirby34

    Surf fishing / crabbing

    I could be wrong, but based on jv's original post and since he mentioned rain, I think his follow-up was a report from being there on Monday (12/24) instead of yesterday.
  8. Kirby34

    Fishing license

    Absolutely.