Some nice salmon are coming in....(san francisco area)

[seasicknes]

Epic battles with trophy salmon resonated off Marin County this week, but none eclipsed the spectacle that erupted aboard the Salty Lady.
Wilson Lyles, a 67-year-old spiritual singer, former show dog trainer and underwater photographer, caught a 50-pound salmon midway between Rocky Point and Duxbury Buoy following a 20-minute struggle Wednesday.
Lyles, afflicted with detached retinas, has been completely blind for the past three years.
Lyles wasn’t alone in making a remarkable catch: The same day, an 83-year-old San Anselmo man hauled in another 50-pounder nearby - following a fight that lasted more than an hour. And a 51-pound monster was hooked by a 58-year-old San Ramon educator over the weekend.
It was hard to top the drama aboard the Salty Lady.
After a slow morning, the Lady scored a double, two rods on the stern bucking violently, and Lyles snapped to attention as the clicker on his Penn 320 sounded as if it were ready to explode. The big fish on one rod broke off, but Lyle’s hookup was solid, and he felt its heft as he picked up the rod.
“It feels like a big one!” he exclaimed as line screamed from the reel.
Others on board relayed instructions as the fish sounded, then moved across the stern. “Left, step left. Go uprail! A little more, keep going! Now step right!” a chorus of crew members advised, instructing Lyles on the direction of the fish.
“He just fought it like any sighted person would do,” said Richard “Emmy” Birnbaum of Larkspur, who escorted Lyles along the rail with deckhand Tony Emge. “It was fun.”
“They helped me guide it in,” Lyles said. “I just kept cranking. Before I knew it, it was in and deckhand Tony had it up.”
Lyles loves to fish and shrugs off his disability. “I’m fine,” he said. “I don’t let it bother me.”
He was using an anchovy behind a big green flasher in water 60 feet deep.
* About the same time that Lyles was hooked up, Richard Stoughton of San Anselmo was battling a hog near Duxbury Buoy. The fish ripped off much of the line on a Penn Senator 113, then sounded and fought for more than an hour on a light drag, with anglers in a boat that circled nearby tracking the time.
The 83-year-old Stoughton was exhausted following the seesaw marathon. “He was fighting right up to the last,” Stoughton said. “He was tough.”
Stoughton, fishing with Don Limm of San Anselmo, used herring in a green rotary killer at 35 pulls in water 60 feet deep a quarter mile west of the buoy.
* The smoker of the year was nailed last weekend by 58-year-old Robert Alpert, a San Ramon schools administrator who decked a 51-pounder three miles west of Duxbury Buoy while fishing with Alameda High School physics teacher Phil Dauber.
The two, fishing cable bait and anchovy rigs four feet behind a chrome dodger at 65 pulls in water 90 feet deep, already had 20 and 28-pound slugs in the box at 10 a.m. when both rods went off. Dauber got his fish to the boat first, a 14 pounder, and Alpert put his rod in the holder to net it.
Alpert then picked up his rod - the big fish had stripped out more than 100 yards from a Penn Jigmaster 500 - and fought the fish for 20 minutes before it neared the boat, then stopped “and just sat there.” After another run, it came to the boat, “and the question in my mind was, ‘Can this thing really fit in the net?’ ” Dauber said.
Dauber missed on the first dip of the net, but got him the next time, a fish so big that both men struggled to lift it.
“It was awesome, a once-in-a-lifetime salmon,” Alpert said of the 47-inch-long beauty. “We stared in awe,” Dauber added.
The 51-pound buck is the biggest sport salmon of the season at Duxbury.
Duxbury’s biggest sport salmon, weighed on a certified scale, ran 56 pounds, 11 ounces, and held the state ocean record for more than a year. It was caught in October 2001 by Charles “Tate” Tatreau, manager of Salty’s tackle shop at Sausalito’s Clipper Yacht Harbor.
* Although big fish are in the mix, fishing at Duxbury has been slow. Today, New Rayann skipper Johnny “Fresh” Atkinson found the fish a mile southeast of the Farallones, where salmon are feasting on a huge school of squid. The New Rayann posted nine limits to 18 pounds by 10 a.m.

[Jinz000]

seasickness I go fish at san Fran quite a bit but the only place i know is fishermans dwarf. Can you tell me how to get there from fishermans dwarf? Fishing for salmon sounds fun.

[JIP]

Jinz,

Have you tried fishing at Pacifica Pier and other areas around there?

[seasicknes]

Jinz,
You need to get onto a boat to get these salmon.
Like JIP says, you might got a shot at pacifica pier.

WIDE OPEN BITE reported south of the farallon islands yesterday. Party boats got limits within 2 hours !


Go Get'em,
Ken (17' whaler / 22' hydrasport wa)

[Jinz000]

I wanna try the pacific shore, is there any luck there? I'll be tossing my baits really far with a 11'9 breakaway w/ Penn 525 Tournament Mag.

No i havent tried the pacifica pier YET. I will try it though though I won't have time until winter December- January.

Yeah i gotta try and rent the party boats.

Is there any other place that I should try?

[seasicknes]

You might want to hit ocean beach. There are stripers that goes by there every once in a while. If the stripers are running, you will see a crowd of fishermen all along the beach. They gather up at the end of sloat blvd and the great hiway. There are parking spots along there also.

You might want to try calling Gus's Discount Tackle. The owner daughter "Stephanie" knows whats biting at the beaches.

And if you decide to fish the area, give me a holler. I am not to far away from there.

Good Luck,
ken

[Jinz000]

That sounds really fun, cant wait. Although the only free time I got now is til winter, I hope the fishes are still in. In the meantime I gotta get use to the 'Penn 525 T MAG' That thing is tooooooo fast, it can spin freely for like 1 minute. I'm a very patient learner I'll spend a lot of time on it, hopefully I can get the hang of it by then.

[seasicknes]

There is always CRABBING during the winter months.

[Jinz000]

Yeah thats true, but my main intent is fishing. I'll still give it a try during the winter months. Also I'll make my own crab snare, and toss with an 11-12 footer stick. I heard that these snares work really good. So gotta give it a try myself.

[Aerotus]

How come you can't fish now?
You're probably missing out on some good fishing.

[Jinz000]

I would love to try right now. But I can't, I need to finish up my school, just 3 more months that im off with a B.S in Computer Science. Then I can fish freely. So yeah thats why I only have winter and then on to fish but not this fall.