Where is boomers reef capitola

So I switched rigs and pulled up a huge sand dab! Also gave Kara a call to let her know she should join us. After pulling up a canary she motored over to follow suit.

They were setting up drifts ft away from our boat. Dunno what was happening. But we were pulling in quite a few. After about an hour of this we decided to give rock cod one more go. Had a couple of small sand dabs that we were going to try as bait. My mom wound up landing a huge brown with one! Guess they do work :] We wound up getting more rock cod at the end, but the wind was really picking up.

Totally regret it. We had quite a wet ride back in :[. Was a great day overall though! Tons of wildlife, whales, dolphins, seals, tons of birds, and lots of fish!

Anyhow, we landed, grabbed our stuff and herded over to the cleaning tables. We had a nice system even. We all split off to go home after this. Hope you all had a good time out there! Oh but before I forget, some more technical aspects. Line: lb mono line. Weight: oz cannonball weights. Kara was running 3oz torpedoes. I can post some more details about this later, but there should be a video here. Kara was running sabikis, shrimp flies, and one 3way rig.

Bait: Squid, shrimp. Some scents were used, but barely. Main bait was live or dead anchovies. The weather these past two weekends has been amazing. It finally calmed down after that initial spring — fall change. Had a few weeks of rather high speed winds, but boy, when it calms down, it really calms down!

And that black patch is a bunch of seals! Tons of seals, dolphin, and whales, but more on that later. So had some friends from work that wanted me to take them out fishing.

Started our way on the jetty around 1pm, was amazingly calm. No wind, and no swell. Having no experience on that side though, I stuck with the harbor side. I think it was the second spot where we found many of the eels. Taught my partners in crime the general idea, put them both on some eels and pulled up crabs.

Was pretty amusing. Had to help one of them unsnag at one point. As I tugged and tugged 40lb line I began to feel the line sliding out slowly…then finally, felt unsnagged! Pulled it all the way out, and lo and behold, it was an eel! And a giant mess of old fishing line that she had apparently gotten caught in.

But eel! I managed to lose an eel too… Dropped a large 5. Right under one guy sitting next to the bucket. They had no gauges. Tsk tsk. This is why the rest of us are stuck with limits. God damn poachers. Moving along though…. Just look at how nice that water is. Like 1ft swells at 12sec intervals or something. And almost no wind. We literally were not drifting for the majority of the day. Had to resort to casting out just to cover ground!

Amazing weather. Our path that day was the middle set of pink squiggles. Majority of our rock fish came up from here. At one point we heard what sounded like a giant belly flopping…and we all looked around wondering wtf was going on. There was a whale way off in the distance cement ship direction that was jumping up into the air, and landing back down.

But this went on for like 5 minutes. Sorry, no video. The easiest way to find these two is to head out to the sc-3 buoy, and navigate with some kind of gps you can get an app for your phone. We drifted around boomers for large rock cod, but overall it seemed pretty slow.

I did get the feeling we drifted over the section that held fish quite quick, since I hooked up in more or less the same spot both drifts, and we were over it quick. One of the fish was the biggest fattest brown of the day, the other was a canary…so disappointing when you reel one of these up:. Honestly when these guys are around it becomes very hard to catch anything but them. This is where we hit the motherlode of sand dabs. Is that half a fish?

He literally thought he caught half a fish! The other two of us in the boat burst out laughing when we realized he was serious. I talked to him about it later, and he told me the reason he was so surprised was because he thought it was amazing how a fish managed to bite it perfectly in half in that direction….

For the record, the lateral line on halibut makes a half circle near the fin instead of remaining straight. Also the brown spots indicate sand dab. This first guy was a pretty good size, came up on shrimp flies!

Anywho, we decided to stick around and catch a lot more sand dabs, heard they were quite tasty and are more or less a delicacy. We tossed a lot of smaller ones back, and only kept the larger palm size or larger ones. Not too shabby. I think it was about 12 rock fish, 4 king fish, and 8 sand dabs for 3 of us. Not including the countless small kingfish and sand dabs we sent back down :]. Finally caught up on reports again! I feel bad when I catch tons of fish, and noone else does.

So I was up at 4am. Got my stuff together, ran out the door to pick up one guy, then headed south for the other two. So straight to Capitola we went. Arrived around , unloaded the car and I ran off to go park. Looked like some sort of triathalon was being set up. Turns out it was over before we got back in. But uhh yea. Winter is indeed here. Sun was just about to start peeking out. I really felt it on Sunday, being on time is painful in the sleep area. Anyhow, ran down to the pier, and it was nice.

Had to wait like 30 minutes since everyone showed up at the same time that day. The Capitola main reef was a better spot for rockfish, and one fellow fishing outside the SC3 buoy returned to the dock with a pound soupfin shark. Myron Larson, who works the hoist at Capitola Boat and Bait, got some fishing in last week.

Monterey boats are doing equally well. I got the jackpot with about a pound fish. Crabs were scarce on our boat but their other boats did good. The water therapy was excellent.

It was epic. Google Earth actually has a little bit of cursory bathymetic data for shallower depths. If you put that coordinate into Google Earth and zoom way in, you can get an idea of what the sea floor looks like in that area.

It looks like there's a long depression that runs from southwest to northeast through the reef area. May 17, , AM 6. Location: placerville Date Registered: Jul Posts: May 17, , AM 7. May 17, , AM 8. Quote from: johnrice on May 17, , AM.

May 17, , AM 9. Quote from: fishmonger on May 17, , AM. May 17, , AM Quote from: fishmonger on May 16, , PM. Quote from: Ghan on May 17, , AM.

Ping speed was my other thought as well. The faster the ping speed, the more gradual the bottom features will look. And it really depends on the reef itself as well - no two are the same.

Also, check out the Navionics web app as well Pages: [ 1 ] 2 Go Up. User Area Welcome, Guest. The gps coords for Boomer Reef is and is as you said the general area. When I get there, I just drift. I cannot tell if I'm on or off the reef. Thanks, this helps. I will hook up with folks that know the reefs and then I will know what a reef looks like on my fishfinder. Ghan, do you use the zoom feature to view the bottom and do you use khz or 83khz? At 80 fow, the bottom on my screen looks bumpy and it's like that most of the time with the exception of a few bigger bumps.

Nothing like what you are describing. Chattich, I had to google bathymetric. Thanks, learned a new word. Always wondered about Google earth and how accurate it was. I will check all my gps coords against Google Earth.