- SIR Branch 8SIR Branch 8

Fishing – Area 16

All SIR members and guests are welcome and indeed encouraged to participate in fishing trips as well as to attend the monthly meetings.

Meetings held in The Legends restaurant
at the Diablo Creek Golf Course
on Port Chicago Highway and Highway 4

4th Thursday, January thru October
3rd Thursday, November & December

Note… the Next Meetings are: ^{January 22nd & February 26th…this is the 4th Thursday.} The meeting starts at 8:30 am, so come early for breakfast.

For more information, please contact
Carl Moyer 925-685-5243 or Phil Scimonelli 661-917-8060

Chairman – Carl Moyer
925-685-5243
carlmarc@astound.net

Asst Chairman – Phil Scimonelli
661-917-8060

rosescim@aol.com

Fishing schedules, event summaries, and photos follow:

January 2026

SIR members and guests are welcome, and indeed encouraged, to participate in fishing trips as well as attend the monthly meetings. Contacts are Phil Scimonelli, 661-917-8060 and Carl Moyer, 925-685-5243. Next meeting will be at the Legends restaurant at the Diablo Creek golf course at Port Chicago 6Highway and Highway 4 on Thursday, January 22nd and Thursday, February 26th at 8:30am. Come early.

We have great plans for 2026. Fishing locally for trout in the early months. Come April, the ocean will beckon with rock cod trips. We hope to have an expanded salmon season in the summer. Meanwhile, we will be traveling to California lakes and rivers for trout, to the bay and delta for halibut, striped bass, and sharks. To Mexico, British Columbia, and Alaska for everything. Look out fishes here we come. Lee Clark, Brion Beetz, Dennis Lee, Doug Dukes, Stan Wong, Shawn Kelly, Matt Richards, and Dave Havlik closed out 2025 with ocean trips for rockfish and crab and did very well. Ken Bellendir joined Rich Fiscina from Florida for some grouper. Tom Kostik, Steve Paulick, Ben LaSala and Stan Wong got stripers in the bay. Stan also caught leopard sharks from China Camp in the bay. Jim Pippo went all the way to Mexican waters for Blue and Yellow fin tuna. In March at our meeting. we have our annual swap meet. We bring our excess fishing gear and buy the excess fishing gear brought by others. BARGAINS GALORE!!!!

Twenty-six of us ate our fill at Carl Moyer’s backyard fall fish fry.

Brion Beetz is pleased with this fine trout caught on a fishing group outing

October 2025

Our weather, regulation restrictions, and mussel invasions have kept us off the water in what is one of our worst years for fishing. But Matt Richards, Brion Beetz, Dennis Lee, Shawn Kelly, and Carl Moyer caught rockfish and lingcod fishing from Carl’s boat. 12 of us had a Chinese lunch with some of those rockfish. Tom Kostik enjoyed black bass fishing in the delta and trout at Pinecrest Reservoir. Ron Lew survived cancer surgery and went deep water rock fishing for rock and ling cod. Rich Fiscina left his home in Florida to catch some ono in Hawaii. Pedro Contreras, Brion Beetz, and Steve Paulick braved a rough ocean to catch yellow tail and yellow fin tuna. Crab and rockfish combo fishing trips start November 1^st, and we are eager to crack the tasty crustaceans. Trout fishing usually starts in the late fall, but the mussel invasion has us shut out of our favorite ponds. The great news is our fishing group now has over a hundred members. One of the largest SIR activities.