Fishing the San Francisco bay!! 4/24/09

[boilermaker]

I'm out here on the Left coast for work. Been out here 14 days already, man I'm ready to get home. I spent the weekend in San Fransico in hotel on Fishermans Wharf. Which is right on the bay under the Golden Gate, tons of charter boats and real deal working harbor. I got up Saturday and ventured down to the wharf with the intentions of finding a party boat or something and going and trying to hook up some halibut or rock bass, or hell anything. Well I found a bunch of empty slips and found out all them left at like 5 AM, not a whole lot a good at 10AM. So while sitting on the docks I struck up a conversation with a ole timer. He was telling me how the bay was a like a grocery store , All types of fish and no clue of what you would catch but plenty to catch. He eventually offered to take me out if I gave him a $100 for fuel and bait. I agreed and headed down the dock to his boat. Where we arrived at a 40 year old, wooden 19fter!!! He then proceeds to tell me that its gonna be rough as with the 30 mph winds seas will 4-6 in protected water but once we get out there expect 6-8's!!! I'm thinking to myself your crazy old man!! I just couldn't do it!! I didn't want to lose my life in San Fran. So I guess not a fishing report but I do have some cool pics!!



ALcatraz


The boat I was supposed to fish off of




ANTI OBAMA Rally!!!! What the hell in Liberal SAn Francisco


And my favorite

[Jumptrout51]

Shoulda' gone fishin".

[Reel Cowboy]

Great pics

And my favorite

That could be just about anybody on this forum.

[Dabbler]

After graduating hs and never been out of Ga, I spent the summer of '67 on the west coast. Haight Asbury. Golden Gate Park, flowers in your hair, fishermens wharf, China Town, Ripleys, make love not war, British invasion, TR4 convertible, San Fran to Tiuana----------------- Well I guess most of you are too young to understand. It was quite an adventure before coming home to attend a little Baptist college in Tn.
Tom, sorry I forget to talk fishing sometimes.

[MudDucker]

I was out there last spring. Lots of good eats down on the wharf and lots of weird people. On homeless guy would huddle under a bundle of palm froms and if someone paid him, he would jump out and scare the shitz out of some unsuspecting tourist.

[RHTFISH]

An anti-Obama rally....you've got to be kidding me....that's un-American!

Oh, but it's California so un-American is the norm!

Really nice pics!

[RHTFISH]

----- Well I guess most of you are too young to understand.

I wish!

[boilermaker]

yeah there were some sights to see in that town!! I got another 100 pics or so of crazy folks and cool sights.

Now I'm freezing my but off in the cold and rainy town of Portland, OR.. Nothing but crazy whacked out "green" folks and Prius driving hippies. I don't know how anyone could live up here. Damn where's the SUN!!!!

[dolphinatic]

You could go snatch hook a few seals down at Pier 39 I bet they would make your drag scream