Can't give you a whole lot of details, that was my first time at Chico. We arrived about 4-5 hours before high tide and nothing was happening on the beach, though there were quite a few fish rolling and jumping a couple of hundred yards offshore. The schools began to move in to the creek mouth in good numbers about 2 hours before the high and continued to come in until about an hour or so into the falling tide. Along with the fish came a lot of fishermen, there were probably fifty or so when we left. There was one boat about fifty yards offshore fishing float and herring and he seemed to be doing okay, but only during that same time and tide window. Some of the guys I talked to indicated that this is still pretty much the front end of the run.
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