The salmon bit well for the guys that could get their gear down to where the fish were. The fish were off of Bodega Head in 260 to 290 feet of water, 80 (early) to 160 feet down OTW. You're probably not getting that watermelon Apex down to 160 behind a trolled 2 pound ball. The guys with downriggers that I spoke with had limits or almost limits. The guys without had, well, let's just say less. Also, as ab fish mentioned in the comments today, there are a lot of silvers out there. White gums bad, black gums good. Also, God forbid you get so far, but if you net a salmon and it suddenly looks like someone spilled glitter in your boat, you just killed a silver that you need to throw over the side. Really. Don't ask how I know, I just do. Here's a photo of the day's largest salmon:

    Jesse Keilman wanted to get his picture on here again, so he drove down from South Lake Tahoe to put this 22 pound salmon in the boat, then on the report. This one came from 280 feet of water off of Bodega Head.

     I guess this is a success story. These guys went halibut fishing south of Hog but only came home with these stripers. The big one the grinning kid is holding weighed 24 pounds. I guess if you yell "striper" enough times it can come true.

   This nice photo of a limit of rockfish is to let people know that they are still biting, even though I keep talking salmon fishing on here. It makes me nervous to post this photo with the canary in it, but lets all remember, you can keep one before you have to move the boat now.