These salmon weighing 20 and 27 pounds were caught on the troll on straight bait by Elephant Rock on Saturday. Trollers seemed to do better than moochers over the weekend but there was no guaranteed method of catching, as many people would attest. The squid schools have reformed and started collecting salmon again, but the squid boats are back as well. Yesterday one troller had his downrigger cable bit and dragged by a very large, very scary shark near Bird Rock. Another guy saw what he thought was a Great White jump half out of the water in the same area. Possibly the scariest story from yesterday was the boat drifting inside of Bird Rock for rockfish when they saw something white underwater. The white thing came closer, then jumped out of water and crashed into the boat and motor, scratching the engine and leaving black slime on the edge of the transom. It was a big sunfish, or mola. I find this troubling because I thought we and the sunfish were cool. They eat jellyfish; we hate jellyfish; the enemy of your enemy is your friend. Now I don't know what to think.

The Alexander boys are posing with Dad's 30 pounder. This fish was troll-caught.

Mike Gonzales of Lodi caught this 28 pound salmon today off of the Trees. He and his brother caught limits of salmon while trolling between McClure's Beach and Bird Rock. 

This 33 pound salmon was mooched on the Teacher's Pet. Mike Stahl "let" his mother-in-law catch all the fish today.