Local potluck this morning and the bite was red hot for about an hour then things went quiet. Fished another couple hours and the bite turned on again. Big blues olives browns and a lingcod. The post July 14 – Morning trip appeared first on Monterey Bay and Santa Cruz Fishing Charters.

Another awesome day out at sea. Our bay area techies got real busy hauling in the fish today. Even had a whale show in the distance. Great time. Thank you Ji. The post July 13 appeared first on Monterey Bay and Santa Cruz Fishing Charters.

Local potluck today with a couple dad’s and eight year-olds. As soon as they dropped in their lines it was game on! Big blues olives and brown. Early limits and first time on the ocean smiles. The post July 11 appeared first on Monterey Bay and Santa Cruz Fishing Charters.

Great water today for our Jurassic Park trip. Ran up the coast looking for lingcod and rockcod. Water still a little off for lingcod (bottom stirred up) but the rockcod were biting crazy. Came home with canary brown red olive blue and black cod. Great time. The post July 9 appeared first on Monterey Bay and Santa Cruz Fishing Charters.

Flat calm water for our local potluck this morning. In the beginning fish were a little on the small side. 30 minutes later WHAM! Fish got bigger stronger lots of doubles and a fat 15 pound lingcod. Kids won’t forget this for a long long time. The post July 8 appeared first on Monterey Bay and Santa Cruz Fishing Charters.

Since halibut fishing has been so good lately we all decided it was worth a shot. And it was rhe right choice! Hooked into 9 halibut and kept the biggest two. Weather was flat calm. Great catching in the halibut fishing grounds. The post July 7 – Afternoon trip appeared first on Monterey Bay and Santa Cruz Fishing Charters.

Ran up to Jurassic Park for lings and rockcod today. Slow Lingcod bite and great rockcod bite. Here’s a pic of Kerry and her trusty fish buddy Mia and their ten-pound lingcod. The post July 7 – Morning trip appeared first on Monterey Bay and Santa Cruz Fishing Charters.

Up the coast today for Jurassic Park today. Fog is still in town and the water turned a bit rough from yesterday. After we got our rockcod we headed home for halibut. Really nice grade of reds blues olives and browns today. The post July 6 appeared first on Monterey Bay and Santa Cruz Fishing Charters.

The weather stayed perfect and the fish were hungry! Went for halibut and we had a halibut slug fest all afternoon. Five year-old Ben and seven year-old Finn got to haul in a few halibut too. Fantastic day. The post July 5 – Afternoon trip appeared first on Monterey Bay and Santa Cruz Fishing Charters.

Gorgeous day on the water. Flat seas no wind and a wee bit foggier than usual. Ran out to South Rock for a local potluck trip. Took some time to get the fish to bite but after an hour or so the bite went wide open! A couple hours into the trip we had a […] The post July 5 – Morning trip appeared first on Monterey Bay and Santa Cruz Fishing Charter...

Happy Fourth of July!!! Took out our good friends from Maryland and Watsonville for local potluck. Got our rockcod plus a nice Lingcod and back in time for the 4th festivities. Even cruised the wharf for a great sealion photo op. The post July 4 appeared first on Monterey Bay and Santa Cruz Fishing Charters.

Wonderful day for our local potluck today. Fish were biting good too. 1st time on the ocean and first fish ever is Ami from Villanova PA with just a couple fish from her limit. The post June 23 appeared first on Monterey Bay and Santa Cruz Fishing Charters.

Afternoon potluck and the boys had a blast. Came in with happy campers and their rockcod. The post June 22 appeared first on Monterey Bay and Santa Cruz Fishing Charters.

Great weather today for Jurassic Park. As soon as we dropped in our lines 13 year-old Julian hooked into nice big fish. After getting our cod we came in closer to port for halibut. No takers but a ton of rockcod. Picture shows “some” of their catch. The post June 21 appeared first on Monterey Bay and Santa Cruz Fishing Charters.

Wind picked up for our afternoon local potluck trip. Headed to closer fishing grounds and dropped in our lines and wham! Fish are biting! Got all our fish and return early. Go Army! The post June 19 – afternoon trip appeared first on Monterey Bay and Santa Cruz Fishing Charters.

Weather was great for our local potluck trip and the bite was wide open! Got our fish and lots of laughs too. Great family from Utah and Colorado to fish with. The post June 19 – morning trip appeared first on Monterey Bay and Santa Cruz Fishing Charters.

Another trip up to Jurassic Park and the water was much nicer. Fish were biting good too! Got our rockcod and headed home. The post June 18 appeared first on Monterey Bay and Santa Cruz Fishing Charters.

Pretty windy for our Jurassic trip but we got rockcod to bite. The post June 17 appeared first on Monterey Bay and Santa Cruz Fishing Charters.

Up the coast again for Jurassic Park. Water was pretty bad today and made fishing pretty difficult. As soon as we dropped in the fish bite was on! Came in closer to fish halibut and lingcod. No takers today but we got rockcod. The post June 15 appeared first on Monterey Bay and Santa Cruz Fishing Charters.

Out to the Jurassic grounds today. We had a small window of weather so we needed to catch as fast as we could and get out of there before the winds showed up. No problem as soon as we dropped in our lines we had doubles on all six rods. BIG blues too! We hammered […] The post June 14 appeared first on Monterey Bay and Santa Cruz Fishing Charters.