The salmon bite is on!

The water finally laid down and the salmon started biting! The most consistent bite has been around the 50 fathom (300 foot) line. On Wednesday the 11th the fleet extended from below Point Reyes to off of Bodega Head, easily 20 miles long, and four miles wide where I ran through it. Almost everybody caught fish and many boats were throwing back legal fish trying to find a trophy. Today the bite slowed a bit, but everyone who went out past 200' of water had fish. The fish seem to have spread out from the area where they were found on Monday and it may indicate the school is spreading out. A salmon was caught in the mouth of the bay (along with a halibut) and Tom McHale of Dillon Beach caught a 37# salmon in 30' of water on 10 Mile Beach. Tom won't say exactly where he caught it, but it bit a watermelon Krippled Anchovie. Some halibut are being caught in Tomales Bay, mostly around Hog Island and a few on the bar. Nobody's limiting out on halibut yet but the average size is good and it only takes one 20# flatty to make your day.