BASF - A Fun Club For People Who Have Fun Fishing
If you love fishing, welcome to the BASF Bay Area Sportfishers club! Discover new fishing “hot spots,” meet new fishing buddies, share fishing tips and join us for monthly club fishing outings and events. We also host and sponsor special fishing events for kids, women and first-timers.
If you would like to check us out, please come to one of our fishing roundtables at Hobee's Cupertino restaurant. To become a member, click the "Join" tab on the menu. We can also be found on Meetup.com by clicking on the Meetup logo below.
-> Trout and stripers are showing lots of activity at Los Vaqueros Reservoir. Penn Cove and Howden cove. [01/03/20]
-> Improving trout catch at Los Vaqueros. Some stripers, mostly smaller. A few catfish. [11/02/19]
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-> All of October has been producing tons of catfish in the Narrows at Del Valle Lake. Catch is usually great in the morning and tapering off around noon. Striper boils are typically in the morning. Few trout and stripers are not abundant. Nice weather, little wind. [10/24/19]
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-> Nice weather brought a good catch of catfish in the 7 to 12 lb range in the narrows. Just a few stripers and very few trout. [10/01/19]
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-> The Red Tide was playing havoc with the fishing conditions out of Santa Cruz making for near limit catches of small fish. Very few Lings. [09/27/19]
-> Many undersize stripers being caught. Two 21" catfish caught in Howden Cove at Los Vaqueros Reservoir. Anchovies and, would you believe rainbow powerbait? Few trout caught. Get weather conditions for LV at www.willyweather.com. [09/17/19]
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-> Tons of bites but only two 18" keeper stripers at Los Vaqueros Reservoir. Anchovies and chicken livers seems to work. [09/12/19]
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-> Nice 28" striper caught in the Del Valle Narrows in the early AM using their boat rental and anchovies. [08/02/19]
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Keith displaying improving trout catch on Nov. 2, 2019 at Los Vaqueros Reservoir.
Good day at Los Vaquerous
Keith with his trophy trout, 24", caught at Los Vaqueros on Power Bait
2020 BIG FISH CONTEST
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Salmon
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Rock Fish
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Halibut
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Largemouth Bass
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Video--BASF sponsors "South Bay Fishing In The City for Kids" event April 23, 2017
We teach the younger ones
how to catch fish!
Pete Sasur and Larry Hayes display their catch at Los Vaqueros Reservoir
Annual, popular 2017 "Fish Fry" party
Nick's first visit catch at Los
Vaqueros Reservoir - 10/02/19
At the November 2017 De Anza Flea Market
5 lb yellowtail caught by Jane Iha on charter boat Huli Cat fishing out of Half Moon Bay
"Baja Bev" with a nice catch on the "Huli Cat" Half Moon Bay
Pete catching catfish at Los Vaqueros Reservoir - 10/18/18
Steve Estrada with trout and striper catch at Los Vaqueros on 01/23/19.
Steve Estrada & son Alex with huge lingcod out of Monterey
Stripers - San Luis Reservoir by Avi Meyers grandson.