We had a great time. I took my 3 teenage boys and a couple of friends. We stopped just outside the harbor and caught a bunch of anchovies for bait. That was exciting and pretty easy. Then we went over a reef further out and easily caught a bunch rock cod. I’d taken Dramamine and was really happy I did, but it was kind of choppy and some of my group was heaving over the side. So we went where the waves were a little calmer and caught some more rock cod and a couple bigger lingcod. Then we went south off Capitola and trolled for a while trying to get halibut. We saw some other boats getting halibut, but we didn’t get any. The waves were really calm there, though so it was a good time for people to recover. In the way back to Santa Cruz harbor we stopped a few times and got a bunch more anchovies. We went to Portugal last year, and wanted to try making boquerones. We were on the water for over 8 hours, which was longer than the time advertised. Altogether the six of us got 40 rock cod, two lingcod, a scarlet cod, and about 50 anchovies. The captain was really flexible about where we went, and constantly setting up our bait and tackle, and when we got back to the dock he spent an hour cleaning all our fish. This was a great experience.

All four of us had a great time and the fishing was excellent! Captain Josh was very helpful when we got a couple tangled fishing lines, very efficient cleaning the fish ( almost caught our limit) we got to see some whales, breaching, and lots of seals in the water. I give the fishing charter a five star rating!