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Some strange happenings lately: - A few dozen large (8-12lb) bonita have been caught by party boats and private boaters trolling for salmon between channel buoys and Duxbury - A sand bass was caught and released in the central bay - A (large) juvenile giant sea bass was caught and released in...

I wasn’t there but multiple friends (and Bodega tackle) have verified. Boater (fellow Coastside Member) got another 50 off hunters point a week or two ago - pic attached. I am thinking about fishing Paradise Pier Friday or Saturday this week if anyone else is going to be out.

Fished Rat Rock at the top of the outgoing tide today for one missed bite and I am now at Mcnears pier. There is one group here with a keeper sturgeon so far. Tides should be good in the afternoons this week (big). Recent rains + muddy water too...

Fished the incoming at Paradise on Sat and finally met Redfish (along with several other long time PFIC members) in person. Unfortunately not much to report. Happy to say that there was finally some catchable bait around (shiners and topsmelt) and I was able to keep fresh ones on continuously...

Have been lucky enough to mostly fish from a boat lately but the bad winds of the last week crescendoed over the last few days and I had to stay on land. Despite the wind, I fished Paradise with a local friend (wearing masks + 6 feet apart) on Saturday. Finally obtained about 20 live topsmelt...

Local officials have shut down parking in Marin at most of the shore access spots, but I live in Tiburon now and I was lucky enough to have my lady drop me off at Elephant Rock tonight for a few hours of solo fishing. I have had little to no success trapping/netting/sabiki-ing live bait lately...

Had a nice weather window this morning so I fished Martinez Pier for sturgeon / stripers from 9a-1:30p until the rain picked up. Fished lamprey/pile worm/ghost shrimp combo off the left side w/ an 8oz spiked sinker; had one pump that I missed the hookup on. Steady pick until around 11:45 for 7...

Had to take our dog to the vet today so my Martinez excursion will have to wait until December (hopefully I will have my sturgeon tags by then). Did manage to sneak in a quick hour of fishing this morning at Oyster Point: arrived at the top of the outgoing and managed to get another nice pile...

Did not make it to Martinez today (hopefully going to try tomorrow morning) but did get in some fishing at Elephant Rock this afternoon. Spent all morning searching for a bait shop that sells pile worms on the peninsula; finally ended up finding them at Jailhouse Deli & Grocery in South SF...

Going to make a trip to Martinez tomorrow as the Oyster Point to Sausalito side of the bay that has become my regular stomping grounds has been quite dead and perching on the beaches has been hit or miss, My 2019 sturgeon report card has been "in the mail" for 10+ days so I will be targeting...

Went perch fishing at Rockaway beach today as striper action in the bay has started to slow down. Light fog, mid 50s air temp and medium/low swell - pretty good surf conditions. There were lots of folks with kayaks dropping crab pots and cooking fresh caught dungies, which made for a festive...

The anchovies are in (but moving, in medium sized pods) between Treasure Island and Candlestick right now - and the bass are behind them. Watch for the birds 1-2 hrs before sunset, but fish are thick all over at the moment, even in some very “urban” places like Islais creek. Got 5 this evening...

Spending next weekend in Monterey with my fiancée’s family and plan to spend at least some time fishing. We are staying on the beach so I will likely do some surf casting with lucky strike minnows / grubs but also wanted to see if there’s been any reports from the piers. I saw Coast Guard is...

I am heading to Avalon for Labor Day (will be proposing in Catalina to my girlfriend on 8/30 - luckily she doesn't read this board!) I will definitely be bringing a travel rod and plan to spend at least a couple hours fishing the Mole. I have read all of Ken's website postings and what I can...

Snuck out of work early today to hit up Pacifica again. Stopped by Coastside, grabbed sabikis, dead anchovies and some grass shrimp and they confirmed the striped bass fishing had been hot “from Rockaway to Mori” but had slowed to a steady pick on the pier. Got to Pacifica and started fishing...

New to the forum: East Coast transplant (moved Jan 2018), based in San Francisco, have been surf/pier fishing ~1x/week for the last 6 months. Now for the report: I went to Oyster Point on Sunday around 1pm with a dropshot/gulp mullet setup to plug for a bit. Pier was dead after 1hr, on my way...