Here's Josh Hollis with a halibut from Thursday. "Hey, caught this guy yesterday evening just south of hog on a shiner in about 28' feet of water. Couple of other boats had some fish also." The halibut and the baitfish have both spread out and can be found closer to the mouth of the bay now. We picked up three on the edge of a hole just South of Tom's Point at the turn of the high tide yesterday morning. Ours liked live sardines and mackerel. 

    

    So, salmon. You've probably already heard that they're biting, and if you haven't, well, now you have. There were many boats out today (one gent I spoke to counted 75 that he could see) and it sounds like they're scattered from 150 to 200 feet of water and from Tomales Point to the North end of Ten Mile. The better bite was early but fish were caught all day. Depths ranged from 160' to 20' on the wire with the average being around 100'. The weather was not as nice as one would hope for, but better than the forecast for the next couple of days. At least the fish are moving onshore now and we can expect a few to start showing up even shallower and chasing fin bait so that the moochers have a shot at 'em, too. 

     This picture is for David Gonzales. He caught a 29 and then a 30 pound halibut this week, then said "I'm going for the big one" at the top of the bragging board, a 33 pounder. Well, he left this morning and this afternoon his fish showed up. Larry Mathis of Forestville used live bait out of one of our rental boats to catch this 33 pound beauty. Or did it look like this?:

     Justin Wadman brought this one in for a late weigh-in. 18 pounds, in the surf, midway up the beach, SP Minnow.