San Diego Fishing/Hunting Report

July 3, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
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Fishing/hunting report

San Diego Union Tribune

  • Holiday Notice: All the San Diego City lakes will be open Friday, July 4, except for Barrett. Murray will have fireworks starting around 9:15 p.m. Miramar has no boat rentals or boat launching due to low water. Lake Jennings, which normally doesn’t open until 5 p.m. on Fridays, will open at 5:30 a.m. on the Fourth of July.

  • Barrett: The 183 anglers checked reported 2,599 bass, 29 bluegill, 11 crappie and 2 smallmouth bass. Open Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday. Reservations may be made through Ticketmaster at (619) 220-8497 or www.ticketmaster.com. Reservations are sold the second Tuesday of the month, one month prior. Reservations for July available through Ticketmaster on Tuesday, June 10 at 7 p.m.

  • Chollas: Open daily to youngsters 15 and under. San Diego Fly Fishers sponsors a Lend-A-Rod program on Sundays from 10 a.m.-2 p.m., and it includes free bait and tackle and fishing tips.

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San Francisco Fishing Report - July 3, 2008

July 3, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
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Brian Hoffman’s Fishing Report

San Francisco Chronicle

  • There’s a mighty lot of interest about rockfish and lingcod and things that live among the ocean’s rocks and reefs, primarily because there are few other reasons to be on the water.

  • Some of the big boats are filling on the weekends, as business is growing somewhat going into summer. On Sunday, the Emeryville boats New Huck Finn and New Salmon Queen fished the Marin coast, above Stinson Beach and along toward Point Reyes. Both boats had live bait. Both needed nearly the entire fishing day to get limits. But they did, with the New Huck Finn going home with 27 limits of rockfish and 29 lingcod to 20 pounds (plus a 20-pound halibut caught on a jig), and the New Salmon Queen boxing 12 limits.

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Brain Hoffman’s Fishing Report: Entire salmon season in serious danger

March 17, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
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San Francisco Chronicle,  USA - Mar 12, 2008 

  • There are people in a conference room at a chain hotel in Sacramento working toward the decision of all our fishing lifetimes and many, many before ours and probably many after, too. Salmon fishing off our coast, for the first time in our vicious history, appears done. The option, as it is, before the Pacific Fishery Management Council amounts to no season, commercial or recreational, for salmon.

  • “It would take an emergency ruling to have any kind of salmon season,”

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