Year 2000 Photos 

May 20, 2000
Santa Cruz
Salmon Fishing

 Launched out of Santa Cruz to do some Salmon Fishing. Peter Heikel was my fishing partner today (Great guy to fish with). We arrived and were in the water at 4:45am. We headed out to some numbers given to us by FishNChips Ken and Ray. The ride out was lumpy and the moonlight lite up the water (until we got to our numbers), when we arrive at our numbers it was 9' swells and foggy. We dropped in and started trolling, we had a couple of hits but no hook ups. Lots of Jelly Fish causing premature release of the downrigger and deep six, we fished shallow and deep and in the middle but to no avail. We decided to pick up and follow a few party boats heading north of Santa Cruz about 5-6 Miles and the swells had increased to 10'+ and more fog and wind. We trolled but ran into the Jelly Fish problem again. Fished with "Nightmare" "FishNChips" and "BackBRace". We decided to call it it a day at 11am. Was seasick despite having the patch on and had done the turtle call once :( - Will try again when the weather lays down a bit. Oh well, just a bad day but better than staying at home.

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Updated 05/23/2000