Noyo Harbor

Salmon season closes tomorrow, join the pink rush but small craft advisory was issued- take party boat!

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Everybody was fishing Saturday. These people were after rockfish mostly, although one guy was sure he was going to land a salmon.

The state closed salmon season off Fort Bragg early, called an in season closure. Instead of closing on Aug. 31, the last day of the season is tomorrow. There was still room Saturday on the Sea Hawk for Sunday, shown below. Boats the size of bass boats were going out on Saturday, all the way up to the big party boats! A small craft advisory was issued on Friday for the Fort Bragg offshore area, which is in effect through Sunday night. Forecast is sunny for Sunday. The winds were fairly strong Saturday morning but the seas had fallen by Saturday afternoon. The forecast is for 7 foot seas on Sunday, but the best thing to do is go and see the sea before going out and avoid small boats. Sunset is at 8:18 p.m

The best fishing out of Noyo Harbor for salmon was the first week of the seaosn and the last week.

Gulls around a boat mean good fishing was had and fish are being cleaned!

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Frank Hartzell

Frank Hartzell has spent his lifetime as a curious anthropologist in a reporter's fedora. His first news job was chasing news on the streets of Houston with high school buddy and photographer James Mason, back in 1986. Then Frank graduated from Humboldt State and went to Great Gridley as a reporter, where he bonded with 1000 people and told about 3000 of their stories. In Marysville at the Appeal Democrat, the sheltered Frank got to see both the chilling depths and amazing heights of humanity. From there, he worked at the Sacramento Bee covering Yuba-Sutter and then owned the Business Journal in Yuba City, which sold 5000 subscriptions to a free newspaper. Frank then got a prestigious Kiplinger Investigative Reporting fellowship and was city editor of the Newark Ohio, Advocate and then came back to California for 4 years as managing editor of the Napa Valley Register before working as a Dominican University professor, then coming to Fort Bragg to be with his aging mom, Betty Lou Hartzell, and working for the Fort Bragg Advocate News. Frank paid the bills during that decade + with a successful book business. He has worked for over 50 publications as a freelance writer, including the Mendocino Voice and Anderson Valley Advertiser, along with construction and engineering publications. He has had the thrill of learning every day while writing. Frank is now living his dream running MendocinoCoast.News with wife, Linda Hartzell, and web developer, Marty McGee, reporting from Fort Bragg, California.

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