Year 2000 Photos 

April 22, 2000
Berkeley Flats
Halibut/Stripers

Launched from Oyster point at 5:30am with my Nephew Arnold and his Friend John. We picked up Live Bait at J&P's at Pier 45. Called Ken and he said Ray, Wally and himself would be going to breakfast and will be back in a couple of hours. The ride out was flat and drizzling a bit. The wind wasn't bad. We went over to Berkeley Flats to fish where we immediately started hooking up on Stripers. Ken (Fishy go Lure) finally showed up and we gave them some bait. We caught 15 kept 3 and released the rest. Most were undersized. Also caught 9 shaker Halibuts (a couple must have been sand dabs and flounders) we didn't want to take a chance and they were all really small, so all went back in. John caught a tiny Ling Cod. At about 11am we decided to fish at the end of Berkeley Pier and fished next to Jeff (Tomcod) and Wing. At one point we stopped to watch a group piled in a 15' ski boat haul in a Halibut with a Micro Lite Trout Pole, Jeff who stopped right next to him to watch yells out he'd better get his net out. He unburied a really small trout net. He must of missed about 5 times before netting the head of halibut, the other half of it was sticking out of the net, looked to be about 8-10 Pounds. Was the most hilarious thing to watch, but he got it onboard! We also saw Cinnabar Trolling with Kurt on the back dragging his Swim bait Rig. Tim (Hukilau), Jeff and Wing (Tomcod) and a zillion other boats, all seem to be hooking up and having fun. Was really nice to get out on the Flats with everyone. Hey Jeff the new poles feel great, Thanks!!

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Updated 06/24/2002