My computer was down last week so I wasn't able to post fish reports for Sunday & Monday's trips. We took limits both days, fishing the local reefs.
The ocean was flat calm this morning and we ran up above Salt Point to fish the kelps from Fisk Mill Cove to Stewart's Point.
We had a steady scratch all morning, ending up with nice limits of  vermillions, blacks, and 7 lingcod.
Here's a few pics we took at the dock.

Jared & Brad Jacobs, and Sandi, Rob & Will,



Jim Aljian,



and the lingcod from today's box.


Vince
These are the good ol' days

        

I took a group of friends and regular customers to look for rockfish and lingcod down the coast to Point Reyes.
The sea was calm again today and conditions were good for trying the 20 to 30 fathom spots, but we caught only one keeper lingcod after many stops and then spent the afternoon catching limits of nice bottomfish on squid-baited flies. We took about 20 coppers and a dozen vermillion rockfish, and released about that many canary and yelloweye rockfish. The rest of our limits, for all eight aboard, were browns, blacks, blues, and china rockfish.
A few pics from todays trip:







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Vince

        

Today's group with some of the catch from the shallows near the mouth of the Russian River.



Sue Foley and Ed with a couple of typical black rockfish.



Devon Harrington and his dad, Ed, each took nice lings on swimbaits fished next to the kelp.





Ev and Sam Roman with a couple of their fish.





and me releasing a canary rockfish with my homemade fish descender.

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Vince

        

Today was opening day of our rockfish/lingcod season and Bruce Chinberg chartered Miss Anita again. We ran up the coast eager to try the rocks in 120' to 180' depths that we weren't able to fish last year.
The weather could not have been better. The ocean has been calm all week and stayed flat all day. We dropped in near
Horseshoe Cove, tried off of Richardson Ranch, but didn't start catching until we slid down to Fisk Mill Cove, where we found a scratch bite on vermillions, coppers, lincod and cabezon.
We ended up with limits of big rockfish and seven lingcod to 15 pounds. Below are some pics from the trip, including Bruce's rare Tiger Rockfish:















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Vince

        

Welcome and welcome back, new and returning visitors, to MissAnitaFishingCharters.com.
Our long wait is nearly over. The rockfish/lingcod season opener is just three weeks away, June 13!
Ed and I have been getting the boat and gear ready for what we expect to be an excellent summer. The season will be open through October, and we are now booking local(Pt. Reyes to Salt Pt.) and long range(Gualala Pt.) trips four days a week, Friday through Monday.
The first Saturday and Sunday trips are full, but seats are available Monday, 6/15, and after that, please call us at (707) 875-FISH(3474) to reserve a spot on the Miss Anita!
Vince

        

Today we took two dedicated birders out for the Sonoma Co. Christmas count.
Lisa Hug and Alan Hopkins rode up on the open flybridge on this cold, clear winter morning as we cruised along the shore from Bodega Head to Russian Gulch, then south out to a point four and a half miles west of Salmon Creek, where we stopped for a while to see what would come in to a slick of cod liver oil. We traveled as far south as the mouth of the Estero Americano before heading in to enjoy the afternoon ashore.
We saw nothing really remarkable, but Lisa and Allen were kept busy recording the many winter ducks and geese, egrets, grebes, loons, and pelicans in and around the harbor, and the alcids and gulls up the coast.
The highpoint of the trip for me was a line of six Ancient Murrelets in breeding plumage that allowed us to approach and get very good looks and photos of these small, shy birds.

Vince
These are the good ol' days

        

Monday we took a group of four friends from Florida and California out to Cordell Banks on a birding expedition.
The weather was great and we made 20 knots over the smooth 6 to 9 foot swells, stopping along the way in 60-80 fathoms to observe feeding flocks of Sooty Shearwaters, California Gulls, Glaucous Gulls, Rhino Auklets, one Jaeger sp., and one Pink-footed Shearwater.
As we ran across Cordell and off of the SW edge of the shelf we saw very little life. I turned NW and cruised up the 500 fathom line, hoping the birds would find us as fog surrounded us, reducing visibility to less than a quarter mile. A few Kittywakes flew by and some Cassin's Auklets scattered out of our path but we saw nothing special until we stopped to watch some friends fishing for Humbolt Squid from Russ' Skipjack 24. They were pulling these 30 to 40 lb calamari up from the bottom in 1100 feet of water, a few miles north of the Banks.
Just as we stopped, an albatross flew up behind us. I was about to call it a Blackfooted Albatross as the large, dark brown bird flew past us, but as it turned back toward us we all saw the oversized, bright pink beak of a Short-tailed Albatross!
The big bird was about 30 yards out before it turned away. It made two more such passes then slipped back into the fog.
We waited next to Russ while they boated a couple more jumbo squid, hoping our bird would come back for another look, but after 10 minutes or so I  started up and motored slowly back along our course, on the outside chance we might find it waiting for us in the fog.
Another hundred yards or so and there it was, sitting on the water in front of us. By then Leo Carrillo,from Oakland, had his camera out and began shooting photos as it took off, circling the boat repeatedly for about the next fifteen minutes. I'm pretty sure Leo got a few good photos. When I receive copies I'll post them here.



We headed back to Bodega Bay, and were just below the weather bouy when we slowed to watch a large group of dolphins as they traveled to the south. There were 200 or so Right Whale Dolphins and about half that many White-sided Dolphin travelling together.
They were beautiful to watch as they took turns riding the bow waves, just a few feet down in the clear water.
We could have watched all day, but the trip was scheduled for just 5 hours. We pulled in to the dock at 2:00 and I was amazed at all that we'd seen in so short a time, including a Black-footed Albatross and another Jaeger on the run home.
Vince
These are the good ol' days

        

A cold NE wind gave hollow faces and roostertails to the 15 foot swells that broke against Bodega Rock and Mussel Point this morning as we ran up the coast on our last rockfish trip of the year.
We lost the wind above Fort Ross and found a good bite off of Timber Cove, taking limits of blues and a few nice bottomfish.
We pulled the traps we had set off of Russian Gulch and our 5 anglers took 25 dungeness and a few big red rockcrab.













Vince
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I'm late getting these pics posted, but we had a great time fishing with this group from Woodland, CA

Vince
These are the good ol' days

        

Another beautiful November day on the north Coast. We took a group of five friends who work together at a Toyota dealership in Sacramento and a Miss Anita regular, Jack Gleason, from Yountville, on a rockfish/crab trip.
We took limits of both Dungeness crab and schoolie rockfish, blues & blacks, along with two keeper lingcod and two vermillion.

Jack Gleason with vermillion and lingcod



Brian Fuchiro and his lingcod



... and the group photo



Vince
These are the good ol' days