I live in San Francisco, but happened to be in Pacifica this past Sunday, on Mother’s Day.  Pacifica is just a 10 minute drive south of San Francisco city limits and I’d describe it as a small, mostly blue collar, coastal town with some majestic and sweeping ocean views.  Pacifica is also in possession of a public pier more formally...
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Pacific halibut closes Sunday The ball is about to get rolling here on the North Coast, and it looks like the weather and the ocean conditions are starting to align. Both Friday and Saturday should be excellent for Halibut, with 4-foot waves forecasted for both days. It’s been about a week since the ocean’s been nice enough to drift for flatties,...
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Twas another interesting weather week at the Lake – snow, sun, snow, sun, snow, sun, rain and now hopefully, sun for the rest of the week and a bit warmer temps. And may I just say, there are some hard-core fishing fools out there and quite a few were on the Lake over the weekend. Fishing slowed a tad...
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Wowzer – it was a wild one up at the Lake this weekend. Fishing, this Fishmas, was definitely better than the weather, although the weather was typical Opening day weather – snowy and blustery. Vehicles started arriving in the snow covered lot at 3:00am and with those drivers not knowing where the parking lines were made for and interesting...
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Another fantastic week of trout catches galore!! Milan Rapo started the week off with his huge 6 lb. trout he hooked on a Flatfish lure. Following close behind was the biggest trout caught this week by Steve Bohlmanfrom Rocklin. Steve’s hefty trout weighed 7 lb. 8 oz., along with a 3 lb. 4 oz. and he caught...
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After considerable disagreement and intransigence occurred among organizations who were discussing salmon-allotment issues during a meeting held in Vancouver, Washington by the PFMC last week, problems were resolved and the ocean salmon seasons for 2016 were finally set at 4:30 pm on Thursday. The Klamath Management Zones (KMZ) seasons for both California and Oregon will be quite different than usual as...
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