Kevin DeGulis reports on 4.5.18

The Bay Area

Friday 

The weekend started off with a bang– or should I say Barred! The entire LCO team (besides Art and George(someone had to work…)) went fishing; Steve, Sarah, Ben, and I headed towards the Golden Gate Bridge.

On the way, we were grooving to some live bluesy tunes from Chicago’s oldest and finest blues bar, Kingston Mines–live blues 7 days a week until...

Kevin DeGulis and The LCO team reports on 3.28.18

Knowing that April is on the horizon, the Lost Coast Outfitters team made it a goal to fish both the California Delta and the San Francisco day in one weekend.  

Delta

The first step was to prepare. Luckily, Friday Redington sent two 8 weight Crux and two 7/8 Redington rises to match. Ben had his Sage One with a Bauer Reel and one old-school sage...

Captain Greg Holland reports on 3.29.18

The Bay

Could not have started the 2018 year off any better than on Wednesday the 28th. Had a guest on board from Banff and we enjoyed a beautiful sunrise stripping flys on Cronkite Beach then moving on to Red Rock for half dozen schoolie stripers.  

The conditions are perfect for a great striper and halibut year with all the bait and runoff. Olive over white...

Kevin DeGulis and Ben Engle reports on 3.22.18

San Francisco Bay

Surf fishing in the bay is continuing to pick up, areas around the golden gate seem to be the most productive. Ben and I went up to Bolinas, California Sunday in hopes of finding leopard sharks. As we kept on getting stuck in mud we decided to ditch the leopard shark hunt and go towards the Golden Gate. We had some luck Ben was able to...

Kevin DeGulis reports on 3.16.18

San Francisco Bay has been heating up this past week. The shallow estuary is an ideal spawning ground for various migrating species.
Areas near the Golden Gate Bridge have been most productive for halibut and surf perch. 

To catch these, use OPST laser line and the Rio outbound short shooting head sink 3. As for flies, clouser chartreuse, deceiver chartreuse, stay...