Capitola and Santa Cruz Boat Rentals

Lots of rock cod came in off the rentals today, a few nice halibut, and a few white sea bass.

The irony / heartbreaker of the day was Ken, who thought he was doing the right thing by releasing a salmon. Turns out he released a 40 pound white sea bass. DARN! I guess better safe than sorry, but still….. DARN!

There’s still bait in through the marina, not as thick but still a pretty healthy amount. What swell there was has gone down again, so - fishing’s probably going to remain good.

We have lots of rentals out today and only a couple have come back in so far. One had a nice halibut. We’ll have pictures later.

Here’s Larry showing off his 30 inch white seabass and a ling cod. What he’s not showing is two halibut which he already cleaned by the time we got around to taking this picture. He also had some really nice quality rock cod, including one of the biggest blacks I’ve ever seen. He was mostly fishing off Soquel point. The seabass came in on a swim bait, the halibut and rock cod were all live anchovies.

Several other boats had halibut and one had two limits of nice brown rock cod caught off the mile reef.

Conditions are still nice. There’s a little bit of swell but not enough to chase off the bait or the bite.

We still have bait galore in the marina and pelicans continue to put on a show all day long. There are fish all over the place - you just have to put in your time. Looks like it’s going to be pretty nice this weekend, so with a bit of luck we’ll see all kinds of action.