Big fish (salmon, at least) for Sunday goes to Carrie Brewster with this 30.5 pound slug. The salmon catching today was, again, mostly early and late in the day. This one was a morning bite but definitely not crack of dawn. So, there's hope if you can't hit the water early. At least there's hope if you're Carrie.

     Pennley Brunkhorst caught this halibut off of Dillon Beach right in front of Cannon. Nothing like a bit of sibling rivalry to keep things on the boat interesting. 

    There were a lot of zeros in the fish counts yesterday but not for the Evil Twins. Reports Larry Varela, "Picture from yesterday got six

Lost a few and had a couple other pumpers no stick 

All in all a pretty darn good day😀" I would agree. Nice start to your salmon season.

    Cameron caught this 28 pounder last night. We had three fish total. Hootchies and bait for all our bites at Bird Rock. 

     Flat water, again, or should I say, finally. The salmon bit, for a while. Gage says it's like a full moon bite, when the fish bite early and late. True. But it ain't the full moon. I think it's a pressure bite. Little pressure early, little pressure late, but midday, pressure, lots of boats trolling.  Not so much with the biting fish in midday. But a few guys caught some before the pressure shut them down.

   

     Todd Gentry caught this 21 pound salmon today, one of three for the boat. The fish came early in the day. His boat was the second one launched today. Early birds and worms.... Nice fish, sir. Largest today, here. Not a lot of contenders. Nice work, Todd and crew.

     Jody Stover has been here a few days and suffered from the bad weather and crappy fishing. Today he caught a nice salmon. What a difference a fish makes. Jody looks much happier today.

     Halibut has been slow as the bar has cooled off. Hog Island has improved as some of those fish have relocated there, but even an improved Hog Island fishery is still slow. There's fish, and you can catch them, but you're probably not catching limits for multiple people. 

 

    Cameron sent me this: "Missed his name, but a 14 pound striper yesterday afternoon from shore on a live smelt".  Good work, missed name person, as stripers from shore have been pretty rare lately. Especially fourteen pounders.

   Ah, the comment says this is Robert Baker of Folsom, who tricked his father into going to get lunch while he caught fish. Another Gage.... Good work, Robert, and nice gaffing, Robert's mom. And I'm sure the lunch was really good.

 

     Gage hit the water at 6:00 this morning and was able to scratch up a few bites before the wind hit the beach. The two stripers he kept weighed 19 and 32 pounds. He missed several short halibut bites on the bar. 

 

   It was a tough salmon day today. Not that you can tell from this picture of Eddie Kim, Dave Nguyen, and Doug with 26 and 22 pound salmon. Good job, boys! This is the high boat from here. Two other boats had one salmon each. Everyone else was just jealous. Except for...

      .....the Tomales Outlaw(s) that gave up on salmon and caught rockfish instead. The Outlaws are eating well tonight.