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Highlights Spotlight: Greater Palm Springs. It was damaged and a portion was rebuilt. Santa Cruz-Watsonville narrow gauge railroad depot at nearby Soquel Landing created a faster method of shipping by rail, so the wharf was abandoned in Diners enjoy a leisurely outdoor meal at the Wharf House restaurant. The wharf is located at the base of hill that contains some of the counties oldest condominiums and vacation homes. As diners gaze toward the ocean for an occasional view of migrating whales and dolphins passing through the Monterey Bay a national marine sanctuary , surfers ply the waves that come ashore in Capitola, one of the region's favorite surfing destinations.
Brightly colored Venetian Village cottages rented as vacation units , are a landmark on the sand next to the wharf. And down below the wharf are kayaks for rent.
Kayakers can launch the vessels from the wharf via a set of attached steps to a connected small platform where they are launched. Most will be caught on live bait such as anchovies, shinerperch, small kingfish, sardines, or small mackerel some years , and all should be fished on the bottom with live bait rigging although in the shallows you can also fish them under a float.
The starries and sanddabs are generally seen winter and spring while sand sole to four pounds and the occasional turbot may show up any month. Similar riggings may also attract a striped bass but they are less particular and will often hit a piece of mackerel or sardine, shrimp, or a pile worm that is graciously offering up its life so that our noble anglers can experience the thrill of a striper.
Most of the stripers range from pounds but bigger ones are caught including a pound fish in September of November of proved especially interesting when a school of about 70 stripers came into the shallow water by the pier and teased the anglers on the pier; only a couple were caught. Keeper fish were caught daily with a pound fish apparently leading the way although a pound striper was caught on a Pencil Popper adjacent to the wharf.
Ditto when the stripers pushed anchovies up against the beach and feasted on the bait. Anglers used bait rigs to catch anchovies and then fished them under bobbers for the stripers. The summer of saw stripers become regular visitors to the pier. Regulars on the pier used bait rigs to catch live sardines that were used for bait; the result was daily landing of stripers topped by a pound fish in late July. Fishing under the pier, by the pilings, is a time honored pier tradition and here it is usually practiced from the mid-pier area to the end.
Small pieces of anchovy fished mid-depth to the bottom, will often yield walleye and silver surfperch, sometimes in non-stop fashion, but generally do not attract the other seaperch.
Pile worms, small strips of fresh mussels, or small pieces of market shrimp, fished down around the pilings at the end, will often attract blackperch aka buttermouth as well as pileperch, white seaperch aka splittail perch , rainbow seaperch, and an occasional rubberlip seaperch reported to three-pounds.
Although winter and spring seem the best times, you may catch a large seaperch at almost any time of the year. A few additional fish will also be landed under the pier by the pilings. These include cabezon, an occasional lingcod to ten pounds , and a variety of rockfish including brown, grass, kelp, gopher and blue rockfish.
Although some juvenile bocaccio may also show up be sure to release them. Remember to fish as close to the pilings as possible, especially pilings that show some kelp by them.
If you prefer artificials, try using grubs especially white or lime colored ; they sometimes out produce the bait. Many anglers, especially those uninitiated to pier fishing, automatically head out to the end and cast out into the deeper waters. Here that is usually OK since there is usually a plethora of smaller species available most of the year—kingfish actually white croaker and numerically the number one fish at the pier , bullheads actually staghorn sculpin , small speckled sanddabs, and baitfish—sardines, herring, mackerel, jack mackerel and jacksmelt.
For the kingfish, use cut anchovy, or small strips of squid on size 4 hooks, fish on the bottom, and cast out from almost any area of the pier. It should be noted however that the size of the kingfish has seemed to decrease over the past decade. Some anglers now routinely keep small kingfish that never would have been kept in the past. Come on, let them grow up! The end area is also usually the area for sharks or rays; use squid and a fairly heavy saltwater outfit. Summer and fall seem the best times for sand sharks brown smoothhound sharks , leopard sharks, bat rays, and skates.
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