Easy limits for Half Moon Bay salmon and rockfish, but slower for Capitola/Santa Cruz 8/2 and 8/3 for my son and me (posted here yesterday, but the post disappeared). Easy limits of salmon using Deep Sixes and salmon rotary killers in 40 to 60 feet of water between the first green can and to, and a little past, the red can. just outside the Pillar Point (Princeton, Half Moon Bay harbor). Also plenty of blue rockfish, sublegal lings, and a 5.5 lb cabezon in the kelp there, all on swimbaits, in just a few hours..

Skiff fishing off Capitola and Santa Cruz was tougher. There no fish took a swimbait bait all day. The rockfish there wanted only drifted frozen herring or the bucktail dressed 6" motor oil grub on the dropper loop above the ignored swimbait.

Wade, we used 6 ounce leadheads as usual off Half Moon Bay, and 4 oz leadheads off Capitola/SC to be able to feel the bottom in the wind and current, but I recall that you use much lighter leadheads off Capitola. Do you have any suggestions about why we catch rockfish and lings with swimbaits on 6 oz leadheads off HMB but nothing with 4 oz leadheads off Capitola/SC? We only use jigging, which works great off HMB. Would it be better off Capitola?SC to use the technique of casting upcurrent and then a bottom bouncing retrieve? We just could not feel the bottom by straight jigging the swimbaits with 1 or 2 oz leadheads? Any advice will be appreciated.

Bob

Bob