Why Do People Fish off Hwy 101?

Bay Curious

KQED

History, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.9 • 999 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

There’s a stretch of Highway 101 between South San Francisco and Candlestick Park where the road gets very straight and runs right next to the Bay. Even though there are lot of 'No Parking' signs in the area, some people are willing to risk a ticket for the good fishing in that particular spot. What are they catching, and what other treasures are fisher folk pulling out of San Francisco Bay and beyond? We sent producer Katrina Schwartz out to reel in the answer, and dip her own toes into the water. Additional Reading: Why Do People Fish off Highway 101 Near Brisbane? Read a transcript of this episode Get tickets for the Bay Curious book launch! This episode was reported by Katrina Schwartz. Bay Curious is made by Olivia-Allen Price, Amanda Font, and Christopher Beale. Additional support from Paul Lancour, Cesar Saldaña, Jen Chien, Jasmine Garnett, Carly Severn, Jenny Pritchett and Holly Kernan.

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0:00.0	From K-QED.
0:03.0	There's a stretch of Highway 101 between South San Francisco and Candlestick Park,
0:09.0	where the road gets very straight and runs right next to the bay.
0:13.0	There's a big shoulder between the water and the road
0:16.0	with no parking signs posted every 50 feet or so.
0:19.0	Ira Doherty travels it every day on her commute.
0:22.0	And despite those signs she often sees
0:25.2	cars parked there. And then I started kind of paying more attention I realized that
0:29.4	there were people out there fishing really frequently so probably about 25% of the time I see someone out
0:36.2	there fishing which is kind of a fun game I play with myself just to like guess whether
0:39.9	or not there might be people on the side of the road. She was puzzled.
0:44.0	It's such a busy stretch of road.
0:46.0	I was kind of really curious as to why anyone would decide that that was really the spot in the bay
0:51.0	that they wanted to have a nice relaxing fish.
0:54.0	Today we'll find out why some are willing to risk a parking ticket to fish at this spot,
0:59.6	and then we'll meet people who love to fish and find out what they're catching around here.
1:04.0	It's all things fishing today on Bay Curious.
1:07.0	I'm Olivia Ellen Price.
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1:38.4	ERA's question about fishing along 101
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