Capitola and Santa Cruz Boat Rentals

Otherwise, it was a slow day for both rentals and fishing off of them. We saw a few rock cod, once again off Capitola reef. Out of seven boats out, three came back skunked. There’s still a decent dolphin show going on however, so at least there’s entertainment.

We know there are some scattered schools of white seabass somewhere in the 35 miles between Davenport and Monterey, so Ed is about to throw darts at a map to plan his fishing for tomorrow. Aside from some big flatties off of Davenport, that’s about all we’ve heard of lately.

Bait finally did come in late this afternoon. People where having a hard time catching them as they were kind of scattered and there was a lot of loose kelp floating around the wharf. The majority of the bait hung around just outside the marina most of the day.

Two small (undersized) halibut were caught and released close to the beach this afternoon. Other than the two sharks, that’s it (though there’s always the possibility of an evening bite).

We had 13 boats out today, most of them caught rock cod. It was a good day for fishing around Capitola reef. Some of the other boats caught some larger fish but they were in a hurry to get them back to the dinner table so we didn’t get photos.

On the wharf, things were a bit slower today ’til about 12:30pm because we had some swell wrapping around into the bay from the northwest messing things up a bit. Once things got going, people were catching sardines fairly well for a while, though it seems to have slowed down again. We didn’t see anything big again today, though Ed saw Nguyen loose a decent sized one to a sea lion about 7:00pm last night. Through the grape vine we heard that he caught a 22 inch striper later on that evening along and that someone else landed one as well.

Weather was amazing today - quite warm in the morning ’til a breeze picked up, then sunny and breezy the rest of the day. Right now the breeze has laid down a bit again. Tomorrow is supposed to be something like today.

Two other rentals were out - one caught an undersized flattie and a couple rock cod which he released, the other caught a few grass cod which he also let go. The second boat spotted a bunch of small but legal white seabass in the same area Felix and Benito were fishing.

Sardines are wide open all up and down the wharf and all through the marina. We saw a few mackerel as well, but that’s it - nothing big.