Catching up - Fishing Stories

Catching up (pun intended). I haven't blogged in a long time. But a lot has happened on the fishing front. We've been out with the boat several times since the last post. And also, tried some local lake action from the bank/pier. And lately, Mark and I have become hooked (pun intended again) on Sturgeon fishing.

Here are some pics to get caught up:

Back at the end of November, Mark, JR, Justin and I launched out of Martinez to fish the mothball fleet. This was one of the scariest adventures of my life. The fog was so thick you couldn't see 10 feet in front of the boat. It was cold and the bridge fog horn kept going off. Anyway, we managed to slowly make our way out by the fleet and these ghost ships appeared out of the fog. It was all very eerie. We hoped the fog would burn off by late morning but it lasted until the afternoon. During all of this, I managed to hook my first ever shaker Sturgeon. I caught two itty bitty ones and didn't even know they were on my line.

I'll post pic from our other trips in seperate posts)

Here's the first shaker sturgeon. Notice the thick fog in the background.
Here's the second shaker. Fog burned off.

Reserve ships from the Mothball Fleet.