San Francisco Salmon

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Got back yesterday from Alberta after a week of duck and goose hunting and needed to check in on my boat. My partner (Doc. Pearl) said, “Well Salmon is open 1 more day”… “See you at 6:00am”. My buddy Steve was already out and said he was starting at middle ground. We put in a couple herring on our down riggers a mile north and trolled towards his numbers. Steve called and said he caught 1 keeper and dropped another. We picked up and ran to him. Put in 200 yards east abd trolled to his area. We hooked up 4 fish in about 3 hours -2 nice fish each. Hot fish, big runs, head shakes, and was just awesome to get local salmon!

Water was greasy flat. Lots of boats out including every party boat from the Emeryville fleet. Good brown water and tons of bait and birds. Classic San Francisco North Coast Salmon Fishing.

We had a big whale come up 30 yards from the boat.

 

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[Mekaniks]

Very nice!

 

[Hunt anything]

Outstanding!
Had a friend that lived in Arcata, I went out there a couple of times to salmon fish out of Humboldt bay. Good times and great eats.
Also duck and brant hunted with him as well.

 

[BRICKBURN]

Nothing like some nice Salmon.

 

[HuntingGold]

Cool. Ill be landing at SFO in a few hours....

 

[CamoManJ]

Awesome, good times fishing!

 

[gillettehunter]

Congrats! Good looking fish.
Bruce

 

[NIGHTHAWK]

Nothing like Golden Gate Pacific Ocean run Salmon…

It’s a real privilege to have this resource available; even in limited quantities! Of course, I’ve been fishing salmon for over 40 years.

 

[HuntingGold]

Just finishing up my 4 hour layover at SFO... no calls to go fishing...

 

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Smoked Some Salmons…

 

[Hunt anything]

Looks great! What wood ?

 

[NIGHTHAWK]

Looks great! What wood ?

Apple

 

[ChooChoo404]

Nice! That was my very first fishing adventure, an SFPD sponsored kids trip.

Thought that fishery was closed?

Where do they spawn?

 

[NIGHTHAWK]

Nice! That was my very first fishing adventure, an SFPD sponsored kids trip.

Thought that fishery was closed?

Where do they spawn?

Nice.

Season open for a short window (4 Days). Thursday to Sunday.

They go up the Sacramento River to Anderson/Redding area.