Humboldt Bay has a seasonal fishery of salmon and halibut and there are rockfish year round as well as sharks and rays.
The weather here is the migigating factor, it just flat get’s too nasty to fish here at times during the winter.
We get surf to 30 feet here on occasion and cold rain and wind as an extra.
When you can get out off of Trinidad head the fishing can be awesom, pacific halibut, salmon (during the season) rock fish and lings. I might add this is a great place for plastics and small boats (again during good weather!) all up and down the coast.
Launch facilites are slim there are severial public ramps in Eureka, then 20 miles north ($20.00) to launch with a private gurney in Trinidad and then I think the next place a guy might launch woul be in the Kalamath or Crescent City.
Sure is a lot different fishing than what I grew up with in San Diego.
Just seems a shame to troll for salmon with a Calstar T-90 jig stick. lol
And rockfish and lings will eat the iron that I used to use for yellows so it’s not a total loss.