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Old 01-19-2006, 12:03 PM   #1
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San Francisco Diving

I am going to San Francisco this weekend and I was hoping somebody could tell me if I should bring my dive gear or not. I know the ab season is not on and I will be up again in a couple of months for that. I was looking for a sea report and reccomendation on spots within a couple of hours drive of San Fran. Thanks in advance! Randy
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Old 01-19-2006, 12:19 PM   #2
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Re: San Francisco Diving

it would be a couple hour drive from SF to any possibly good diving. (sonoma or monterey county)
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Old 01-19-2006, 03:26 PM   #3
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Re: San Francisco Diving

The swell is forecasted to 20' for the next few days. Haven't been down to see for myself though.
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Old 01-19-2006, 05:24 PM   #4
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Re: San Francisco Diving

The vis. in monterey might be a bit better than up in sonoma. there are some guys on this board who live down there and can give you a fairly dead on report. either way, it's different than diving PV.
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Old 01-19-2006, 05:33 PM   #5
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Re: San Francisco Diving

I was on the Mendocino coast 3 days ago and the water was very dirty.
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Old 01-19-2006, 07:50 PM   #6
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Thanks for the info... I leave at 4 am and will drag my thick suit along and hope for the best... I will post the story if I have one!
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Old 01-20-2006, 01:10 AM   #7
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Re: San Francisco Diving

go dive deadman or bontio cove on an outgoing tide, haha, j/k, but thats where all the wsb were taken last summer, there was also a couple taken inside the bay, and there is a small movement on coastside to get a wsb hatchery in the bay. Its a cool idea, but i dont want to see the salmon ****ed with, even for possible 80lb wsb. The visibility here on the monterey pennisula might be good this weekend if the swell stays low, but my sandbars are good, and the swell will be small enough for them, so ill be surfing.
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Old 01-20-2006, 04:58 PM   #8
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Re: San Francisco Diving

How would WSB mess up the salmon? Since salmon are pelagic and WSB like to hang around kelp beds and shallower areas, I don't see the two conflicting very much. I guess the WSB may eat a good amount of baitfish, but they're in more direct competition with lingcod due to similar habitats, and the lings are bouncing back with a vengence.
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Old 01-20-2006, 05:18 PM   #9
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Did guys spear wsb at deadman's or hook and line them? A hatchery would be cool. I'm not sure what the effects on the salmon or lings would be. It doesn't seem like they'd have much an impact on lings though. While they do hang in the kelp they don't hole up like lings and who knows how exicited they'd be about eating blues.
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Old 01-21-2006, 04:01 PM   #10
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I think one of the concerns would be WSB feeding upon fingerling and fry salmon as they either come through the san francisco and then again along the coast. However, there was a historic run of WSB in northern cal. But then one has to wonder about the stripers, as they were planted here and I'm sure the consume their share of salmon.
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Old 01-21-2006, 08:27 PM   #11
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Swell is down to 4 - 7 ft this will be the 1st weekend of divable conditions in over a month!!!
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Old 01-22-2006, 06:46 PM   #12
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No question about stripers nailing young salmon. It used to be a free-for-all when DFG released salmon. We would knock the shit outa the stripers throwing lures. I don't think that the WSB come that far up into the bay though. The way I hear it, they are more likely to be working on squid. I tried looking for them in Capitola a couple of times last year, but hit zero vis both times. Thinking about looking down toward Big Sur from a kayak this year - Anybody interested???
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Old 01-22-2006, 09:10 PM   #13
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as far as I know the wsb take in nor cal was far larger than so cal 75 years ago
but commercial guys wiped them out
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Old 01-23-2006, 11:17 AM   #14
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i heard they used to be thick in norcal too. last august i was on my way out at stillwater (sonoma) and a guy stopped me and was describing a fish he saw and it sounded exactly like a wsb. an ab/wsb dive would be pretty sweet. monterey must have been good back in the day with all the kelp and squid coming in.
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Old 01-23-2006, 03:45 PM   #15
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No question about stripers nailing young salmon. It used to be a free-for-all when DFG released salmon. We would knock the shit outa the stripers throwing lures. I don't think that the WSB come that far up into the bay though. The way I hear it, they are more likely to be working on squid. I tried looking for them in Capitola a couple of times last year, but hit zero vis both times. Thinking about looking down toward Big Sur from a kayak this year - Anybody interested???

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