Capt, Robert Gallia with Emily Perttu

10/03 Fishing Report

Indian Summer, calm weather and good Salmon fishing off the Marin Coast has allowed the Berkeley Charter Boat fleet to produce a fish a rod averages up to 24 lbs during the weekdays and scores between 10 -15 per boat during the weekends. Capt Robert Gallia F/V EL Dorado stated there has been a lot of private boater interest on the calm waters during the weekends, which has contributed to much boat traffic and pressure, driving the scores down...During the weekdays the fish scores bounce back from less pressure.. The fall run Salmon are moving in and we expect a good showing of Salmon in the coming weeks of October.

Rock Cod / Ling Cod fishing is a enjoyable way to experience the California Coast, as discovered by Emily Perttu of San Francisco. She was aboard the EL Dorado DeepSea Rock Fishing at the Farallones Island on Saturday October 1st bouncing shrimp fly's across the bottom when she thought she had snagged the bottom, after several minutes of reeling Emily discovered that a smaller fish which was attached to her shrimp fly had been chosen by a 26 lbs " hitchhiker" Ling Cod . She walked off with over a $100 Jack Pot and all the passengers enjoyed catching limits of assorted Rock Fish with 22 other Ling Cod.

9/12/2011Fishing Report

The Salmon fishing along the Marin Coast between Rocky Point and Duxberry buoy has been very good(!!!) during the last few weeks with only a couple of slow days due to the windy weather conditions. The Berkeley Salmon fleet has been scoring near limits to limits on the short loads during the weekdays, and averaging a fish a rod or better on the weekends. This weekend on 9/11 the New Easy Rider scored 10 limits with fish weighing up to 16 pounds and had returned to home port by 1:00 pm. TheEL Dorado reported great action and landed 16 salmon out of 35 hookups, fish weighing up to 24lb. The morning action has provided the most opportunity, and straight anchovies have been the best bait at around 30 pulls as reported Capt Robert Gallia.

Tod Wiederhold

Berkeley Charter Boat Fishing Report, July 11, 2011

The past weekend provided plenty of encouragement and much smaller tides for the anglers choosing to go live bait fishing around the central bay. All of the local spots such as Alameda, Alcatraz and Angel Island produced nice quality of Halibut, many of which weighted in the teens and a good mix of nice sized Stripped Bass which are finally starting to show in the central bay near Southampton Shoals as reported by Capt. Robert Gallia. The bay conditions are beginning to swing towards what we would expected for this time of year.

Morgan Young who organized Sunday’s trip on the El Dorado with many of his friends and family totaled 25 fish, 13 halibut up to 19lbs with 12 Bass up to 11lbs and assortment of rockfish for their annual trip. Tod Wiederhold of Grass Valley won the fat jack pot, totaling $240.00 with his 19lbs Halibut. Two brothers Zach Stein and Kyle Stein from Colfax enjoyed the allowed limits of Stripped Bass.

The Coastal Rock fishing trips are also producing good quantities of fish. The New EL Dorado III fished Saturday and Sunday along the Marin coast and produced ¾ of the allowed limits of Blacks, Bolinas and some Vermillion on both Saturday and Sunday.  



Fishing Report June 28, 2011

Pot Luck

The windy conditions and big tides that we have experienced over the last several months have capped the halibut and stripper scores since the season started. It has been blowing every weekend since the Pot Luck season started using live bait, and there were strong winds again this past weekend.

Despite Mother Nature air conditioner and the big tide conditions, the Berkeley Charter Boat fleet fished Angel Island, Alcatraz and Richmond during this past weekend. Sunday scores totaled over 21 halibut up to 18 lbs for a combined 35 anglers aboard the New Easy Ride and the New El Dorado III. The larger halibut are just starting to show, and numbers have improved from scores posted last week.

Rock Cod

The scheduled rock cod fishing trips to the Farallones was re-routed to along the coast due to the breezy winds. The EL Dorado fished in 90 ft of water below Double Pt. and scored 18 lings up to 19 lbs and 1/2 to3/4 of the limit of a mixed verity of rock fish. Mike Haentjens of Sacramento won the jack pot with this 18 lbs coastal ling, the ling cod grabbed a smaller fish on mikes hook when he decided to retrieve his gear...

Lucky Seven

Berkeley Charter Boats

Fishing Report June 21, 2011

Seven lucky salmon anglers of the New Easy Rider were fishing of the Marin Coast on Monday 6/21.They spent most of the morning trolling with Capt. Joey Gallia around the Bolinas area using anchovies in 20 to 40 feet of water in ideal weather conditions. Capt. Joey Gallia worked the first part of the morning tide around Duxberry reef, where he hook 4 and landed 4 of the hard fighting Kings... Later in the day he negotiated the New Easy Rider into the coastal areas and hooked and landed 3 more Kings, making it a lucky 7.

The jack pot winner was birthday boy Frank Porto of Oakland who enjoyed spending the day fishing with his son Alex. Frank Porto landed the biggest King, weighing 16 lbs.

Second place went to Scott and his 2 daughters Kelsey and Caitlina from Lafayette, CA.

Capt Joey and the New Easy Rider will be offering daily Salmon trips until October 30.



Gary Costello and Freinds

Fishing Report, May 31 2011

BerkeleyCharter Boats

The Memorial Day weekend was cloudy and windy and a bit on the chilly side 2 out of the 3 days. In spite of the cooler weather, the Berkeley Charter Boat pot luck fleet fished below theBayBridge, around theAlamedarock wall in 15 to 25 ft of water, using live anchovies.

This area has been consistently producing a good mix of stripped bass weighing up to 14 lbs, and a 5-8 halibut per boat weighing up to 34 lbs. The biggest one (34 lbs) was caught Monday by Gary Costello from Sacramento...

All the anglers enjoyed a steady bite especially during the morning hours.

It has been a good pick in the clearer water during the calm morning hours of the flood tide, and a slower pick during the windy afternoons after the tide started ebbing.

Reported Capt. Robert Gallia.

Fishing Report, May 24, 2011

Justin Mumm and his close friends from Reno Nevada set out on Friday May 20^th aboard the EL Dorado with Captain Robert Gallia. With 15 passenger aboard and a bait tank loaded with hot anchovies, we headed to the fishing grounds nearSan Bruno shoals. Fishing reports from earlier in the week had indicated some quality halibut and stripped bass in the area in 15 to 25 feet of water.

As the crew reached it’s destination, the bird life and bait signs provided some good prospects for success for the group of the great friends fromReno. Upon making the first drift of the morning, the action started, shouts rang around the boat, “fish on” in some cases 2 - 3 on at a time...

            The morning bite was fast, fun and sometimes furious for the first few hours of the ebb tide and at the very beginning of the flood! The mix of 15 fish, comprised of 12 strippers up to 12 lbs each, and 3 halibut up to 16 lbs kept everybody aboard at their rod stations and away from snacks and beer coolers until about 11:00 a.m. 

            The pool winner, James Messer put both the biggest stripper and halibut aboard and walked away with a $70.00 jack pot!