El Dorado Fishing

11/07/2022

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11/07/2022

09/25/2022

Fishing continues to be challenging, all quality if you can land them.
11 out of 15 hookups.flat calm
grey skies, and light loads..
Capt Robert

07/26/2022

30 fish for 18 people to 30lb ya baby!!!!!!

07/21/2022

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07/19/2022

15 limits ya baby

07/15/2022

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06/28/2019

Fishing Report

6/26/19

Salmon Fishing:

Over the last two weeks the salmon fleet has been fishing the area above PT Reyes, with huge success and big scores. “But last Sunday” things seemed to change, only a few boats scored well, and those boats were all out of Berkeley. The EL dorado, New EL Dorado III and the New Easy Rider scored well above the average of the bay area fleet and posted a combined score of 76 salmon for 49 anglers.

On Monday (6/23) the fleet motored south along the San Mateo coastline and nailed a new school moving into the stacks of anchovies just outside the Pacifica Pier in 70 ft of water. The scores for the week for the entire fleet bounced right back. Monday Tuesday and Wednesday the fleet scored easy limits and most were tied up by noon. The fish are of mixed quality with many going into the 10 -to 12lbs class. The action along the San Mateo coast has been solid, and with the salmon moving closer to our coast, the rides are much shorter.,



Pot Luck / Halibut

The live bait fishing remains great, scores of halibut in the flats, and limits of striped bass on the rock piles. This has been the action for the past week. The faster tides last week contributed to the big scores of bass on the rocks in the morning hours. Then later in the day, slower tidal movement of the waters are providing longer drifts in the Berkeley and Emeryville flats., The charter boats that are live bait fishing are finding halibut in all of the choice areas of the bay.

The halibut that are landed in the deeper waters are between 8-15 lbs and the bass are averaging about 7-9 lbs.

Capt Robert Gallia / EL Dorado

06/13/2019

Fishing Report
6/13/19

SALMON REPORT
After the windy weather conditions of last week, the N/Westerly came to a calm on Sunday 6/09. On that day, the charter boat fleet started around the channel buoys, and by the end of the day worked into Muir beach. Most of the scores which were reported in were in the low to mid-teens with a nice mix of quality up to 18lbs.
This was the scenario for all of the skippers, except Capt. Robert Gallia aboard the EL Dorado. On Sunday, during a slow pic throughout the late morning along the edge of the bar, he decided pull the gear around 12;00 and head N/West. His destination was 50 fathoms between the North Farallon’s and PT Reyes. He believed that the strong winds had push salmon from the northern region of California into the northern areas of the Farallon’s. After running more than an hour, he located the schools of anchovies in 47 fathoms. They stopped the boat. The lines were dropped, after a brief moment of quiet the first salmon took the bait, and from that moment forward it was full on hand to hand combat. The customers were being slaughtered by the waves of charging salmon. After an hour of combat the crew started pushing back and the box was filling with bright ocean caught kings. When the battle was finished they landed 23 limits of kings up to 18lbs.
As of today, 6/13/19 the fleet is still scoring limits in the area of 50 fathoms near PT Reyes.

POT LUCK / HALIBUT
The live bait fleet is still scoring big numbers of halibut in the Berkeley flats and across the bay at Paradise. The daily halibut scores are still in the 30-40 range with the big fish going in the high twenties. The striper bite has picked up also, with the fleet fishing the faster currents at the rock pile and Harding Rock. The striper`s that are being caught are of good size ranging between 7 -10 lbs with some big ones going in the high teens. The water conditions and tides for the rest of this week will produce more stripers than halibut due to the tides.