@@BackFishing thanks I love fishing I live in Belmont and just now I have started leopard shark fishing and it is super fun just last week I caught 9 sharks and a eagle bat ray in 3 hours
Awesome! I'm sure that Northern CA folks are envious of our Dungeness season being 365 days! That striper was very big. I can only imagine what it must have been like to reel it up onto the pier! I never made it to Pacifica when I was growing up in Northern CA, just Santa Cruz area because that was my stomping grounds. The weather looked amazing during your visit, too! Safe travels, Hale'
Thank you. Pacifica pier is fun to visit. Lots of action. We are 100% lucky to have 365 days of dungeness season. They close it around 1st week of July and open sometime 1st or 2nd week of November, then it's organized chaos at the pier. Hope to be up there back home soon. .🤙🏽🤙🏽
This year is weird. Pacifica hasnt produced anything except dungeness since 2014 and even then,.. the dungeness keepers only came to those that got the very end of the pier. I used to go every year but eventually gave up on Pacifica and now go elsewhere.
There are other options, but you are right most of the dungeness come at the end of the pier and surprised to see large red rock crabs too. Thanks for the comment. 🤙🏽🤙🏽
You’re right it seems like there’s been less rock crab than usual. I still catch them tho. Easier with a crab snare. But your most likely to pull in undersized dungees
Well Hale you finally ticked me off!! What kind of person would make a video of my secret spot and post it!!! That's pretty dang rude!! Now there will be other people stacked up and fishing there!!OK, I don't fish on the pier but come crab season I can often be found out there. There are a lot better spots but the Pier People are a lot of fun! In Calif you may fish from a pier or a jetty without a license. Go out in a boat or fish from shore you better have a license on you! Crab season opened in October or November this year?
Too funny Gene. You are certainly right about the community. There is a cool community on the pier especially crabbing season. Good luck. Hope they don't delay the crabbing opener. 🤙🏽🤙🏽
We never go on the opener, not even to my secret beach. Either one of them. My wife used to go with us to the pier. She just loved meeting all the pier regulars. Most of the pier people are locals, we tried to get there every month so we knew a lot of them. With gas prices what they are in the state we didn't get there much last season. The Whale problem we have does not affect the snaring, usually just the commercial crabbing. The inshore fishing closure has affected us though!!
No real secret anymore. Even before RU-vid. This pier in the 70's always produced. Fishing derbies exist through local bait shops made it popular. There were so much more bigger fish back then I really never fished that pier. Appreciate you. Thanks for the comment. 🤙🏽🤙🏽
