2009 March | Capitola and Santa Cruz Boat Rentals

30th March 2009

Capitola: Mmmmm, Sardines

But not much more.

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29th March 2009

Capitola: Aubrie Amberiee and Dad

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29th March 2009

Capitola: Carla Hiroko and Jeffrey with a big black perch.

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29th March 2009

Capitola: Little Leopard in shallows on live sardine.

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27th March 2009

Capitola: Justin and the first legal halibut.

Caught on live sardine.

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25th March 2009

Capitola: First bait caught off wharf

Baits a littel spotty but at least it’s here.

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24th March 2009

Capitola: Bait bait bait!

Ed is out fishing by the cement ship right now, and he reports that he’s been into all kinds of herring, sardines, and mackerel while flylining a bait jig.

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23rd March 2009

Capitola: Thar she blows!

	We had a nice little show this morning courtesy of a gray whale doing a walkabout - or something. It came straight into the marina toward the beach and swam around a bit and spouted a few times. Pretty cool. The photos don’t do it justice, but you can see how close to shore it was.

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21st March 2009

Pictured is the big entertainment of the day on the Capitola wharf: A boat that showed up a few days ago anchored in “the bad spot”* broke anchor as the winds started to come up this afternoon, and sure enough it blew straight through the marina toward the beach/reef. The lower photo shows Vessel assist claiming what will in all likelihood be an addition of questionable value to its fleet.Not much happening fishing wise - the perch et al went into hiding. Ed is pretty confident that if the wind comes up out of the NW tomorrow as the weather reports say it will, fishing in the break should improve dramatically. So - c’mon northwest wind!

* “The bad spot” is anywhere west of an imaginary line through the center of the length of the wharf - holding is just generally very tenuous there. When in doubt, rent a mooring - plenty of boats have gone ashore here for lack of local knowledge and experience.

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19th March 2009

Santa Cruz: Getting fishy

Some additional good news - in Santa Cruz today we have reports of sardines being caught towards the end of the wharf, and reports of herring off the cement ship. There was also a report of a legal halibut off the cement ship.

We hear that anchovies and squid are beginning to make a showing down by Monterey, and we saw a grey whale working something just outside the marina in Capitola this afternoon.

Good signs indeed!

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19th March 2009