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2010

March 1

Cheryl, Dave, Jeff & I took off out of Santa Cruz late this morning for a little over a 3 hour tour aboard Alibi II. Today was a sea trail for Jeff, not the boat. He tried Scopace for the first time today and managed to hang in there. We had no rain, no wind, and a fishable swell. While it wasn't perfect for Jeff today we'll get him dialed in enough to be able to go on a dive trip to the Galapagos Islands this Summer with Cheryl, Dave and me.

We hit depths from 150' to 250' to catch 7 sand dabs but we culled kingfish to use later this year for lingcod and halibut baits.

The water was really clear and there was lots of birds working just off the harbor. The swell was dropping but it's getting ready to blow again. Might be worth a look around for halibut after the weather settles again.

 


February 28

Jerry, Leanna, Steve, Doug and I joined Patrick and Debra on "Peridot"; a beautiful 36' Albin. We left pier 39 in San Francisco bay and headed for the San Pablo bridge as the first bloody Mary's were mixed. Doug had scored us 2 pounds of live grass shrimp and a few trays of herring. The sun was out and everyone was hell bent on having a great time and maybe catching some sturgeon.

We starting on an incoming tide and got hammered by dungeness crab. We kept flicking the little buggars off our lines and trying again. I hooked the first shark of the day. Considering this was my first foray into the new year I was very pleased to get a new species to add to my conquests... Of course my little leopard shark would've looked much cooler if I'd held it "color side out" for the photo before I let it go.

Leanna's awesome sherry cake was laid out for us, followed by Debra's ham with egg salad sandwiches. The beer and wine flowed freely too. During our continuous food feast the outgoing tide stared to kick into high gear and some striped bass made a showing as well as a larger leopard shark that Leanna fought, photographed and released. Doug had a sizeable striper on but it escaped just off the stern after rolling to show us just how fat he was! Patrick, Steve and Leanna all managed to catch and release stripers as well.

Just before we called it an afternoon Jerry ducked into the galley and made some tasty stombollies in feta cheese sauce. The food was off the hook all day and all I managed to bring were some weak ass brownies. Somehow I even managed to gain 3 beers when I got home and looked in my cooler, lol!

On the way back in the top deck had fun with the lower deck with a few slalom-style moves which had us sliding back and forth in our deck chairs. I don't think we spilled a drop, ha-ha.



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